A restaurant owner was shocked after he found this 15ft-long python hiding in the garden hedge.<br /><br />Krisana Ratanavichai, 24, chased away the reptile after she saw it in the road but it darted into the bush in Pattaya, Thailand on October 14.<br /><br />Rescuers arrived and spent 30 minuted carefully pulling the serpent from its hiding place. <br /><br />Relieved Krisana joked: ‘’He is a lucky snake. If I wasn’t afraid of them we might have caught it and put it on the menu.’'<br /><br />Vet Tanthong Lekcharoenchai checked the python over before releasing it back into the wild. <br /><br />He said: ‘’Snakes this size are very rare in the city. They’re mostly in rural areas and small villages. This was about four or five metres.<br /><br />‘’They sometimes come out of the forest if there has been lots of rain and they want somewhere dry The snake has been taken and put back into the jungle.’'
