A king cobra slithered into a car engine during a New Year party.<br /><br />Chainarong Raksithong, 38, was celebrating with friends while his pickup truck was parked on the roadside in Krabi, southern Thailand on December 31.<br /><br />While they were drinking and listening to music, Chainarong saw the huge snake slither from the woods across and dart under his vehicle.<br /><br />He contacted the rescue team to catch the snake and they spent 10 minutes pulling the 13ft long king cobra out of the engine.<br /><br />Chainarong said his family joked that the king cobra came out of the forest to help them celebrate New Year. <br /><br />He said: "When we were watching the rescuers finding the snake, my family said it must be the king cobra that we believed to be a holy spirit.<br /><br />"It was a shocking moment to us when the rescuers pulled it out and we found out that it actually was a king cobra."<br /><br />The rescuers brought the sack into the deep wood and released it away from the house.
