A nervous monitor lizard was caught after running away from people and hiding in a car engine.<br /><br />The 6ft long reptile was first spotted by workers at a local government office in Prachinburi, eastern Thailand. But the lizard was startled and it darted under a red pickup truck to hide.<br /><br />Footage from Wednesday afternoon (June 24) shows the animal handlers squatting down to find the reptile after the truck owner contacted them for help.<br /><br />They spent more than an hour to remove the reptile because it was stuck in the engine, resisting being caught.<br /><br />The car owner Nam-oi Seedam said: "I saw it on the road and I think it was threatened when people stared at it then I saw it run under my car to hide.<br /><br />"I asked the officers there to help chase it away but we found that it was stuck in the engine.''<br /><br />The commotion attracted onlookers because they wanted to get the car license plate for their lottery numbers. Local superstition has it that wild animal encounters are lucky.<br /><br />The animal catchers released the monitor lizard back into the wild away from busy roads with people.
