This is the stomach-churning moment a cobra regurgitated a live toad after slithering into a car engine to digest the amphibian.<br /><br />Rapeepat Withee, 53, was having a conversation with a customer at her garage in Bueng Kan, northeast Thailand last Thursday (January 16) afternoon when the cobra darted in from nearby grass.<br /><br />The mechanic shrieked when the snake quickly slithered undo the car and coiled up inside the engine.<br /><br />Police arrived to catch the serpent and yanked it down onto the wheel chassis. It then desperately clung on while the slime-covered amphibian emerged from its jaws.<br /><br />The cobra was finally caught after half an hour and was put into a sack to be released back into the forest. The toad succumbed to its injuries from the ordeal.<br /><br />The garage owner said the cobra might be starving as the nearby stream has been running dry. <br /><br />She said: "The snakes usually stay near the damp areas, like streams and swamps, eating toads and frogs.<br /><br />"However, the drought has caused those places to dry up so it might have been looking around different places when it saw my garage.''
