A driver was shocked after starting up his car and finding a monitor lizard in the engine<br /><br />Kittipong Vechekit, 50, went out to his Isuzu MU-X on Saturday (July 6) in Samut Songkhram, central Thailand. <br /><br />When the homeowner started up the car he heard an unusual rattling sound and immediately turned off the ignition.<br /><br />Kittipong checked under the bonnet and was startled when the three-metre-long water monitor lizard appeared from the engine.<br /><br />He said: ''I knew I had to be careful because it had sharp teeth. And they can be aggressive and attack with their claws.''<br /><br />Kittipong called the emergency services who chased the reptile out of the engine and pounced on it when it tried to escape through a drain in the front yard.<br /><br />The lizard was later released back into the wild unharmed.
