A baby king cobra was caught after slithering into a car wheel.<br /><br />Abdullah Mas-udasalem, 40, called the rescue team after seeing a the reptile dart under the vehicle while it was parked outside his house in Songkhla, southern Thailand.<br /><br />Snake wranglers lifted the bonnet, or hood, and found the snake coiled round the wheel arch on May 27.<br /><br />The stubborn serpent hung on tightly and hissed at the rescuers but they eventually yanked it free.<br /><br />One of the rescuers forced the snake, estimated to be 5ft long, to spit out its venom first before he put it in a sack.<br /><br />The rescuer said it would be safer for them if the snake's attack mechanism was drained.<br /><br />He said: "Despite being just a young king cobra, it was very ferocious. We had to squeeze the venom out of its first before we put it into the sack to reduce the danger toward us."
