A monitor lizard grapples with animal catchers after raiding the store room at a grocery shop.<br /><br />The 1.7 metre long reptile was found rummaging through boxes of dried noodles on October 10 in Chachoengsao, Thailand. <br /><br />Shocked owner Chu Chituphum, 50, screamed and ran away when she saw the beast in her room. <br /><br />It then darted under a cupboard and had to be dragged out by local animal catchers. <br /><br />The lizard’s food foraging was almost over, but not before one last bid for freedom, when it gave authorities the slip again and scampered under a roadside building. <br /><br />It was finally tied up and carried away into woodland several miles away where it was released.<br /><br />Grandmother Chu said: ‘’I’ve never seen a lizard that big in my shop before. Never in any of my rooms. <br /><br />‘’This is where I keep all my food so I didn’t want the lizard to stay in here for too long eating things. I’ll get back to work now it has gone.’'
