Li­cens­ing Of­fi­cers and mo­torists came in for a huge sur­prise yes­ter­day when they spot­ted a snake wrapped up in­side the chas­sis for a brand new ve­hi­cle.

The slith­ery sur­prise all un­fold­ed at the Port-of-Spain Li­cens­ing Of­fice.

In a video post­ed on­line by Chan­dra Ram­soon­dar, scores of li­cens­ing work­ers gath­ered around a black Tus­con SUV out­side.

Peo­ple were seen video record­ing the re­trieval of the rep­tile by two zoo of­fi­cials.

Chan­dra told Guardian Me­dia, that she went to re­new her taxi badge when just be­fore mid­day, work­ers re­port­ed see­ing some­thing drop from the SUV.

On clos­er in­spec­tion, em­ploy­ees ob­served a snake coiled on the ground.

But Chan­dra said some­one poked the snake and it went up in­to the ve­hi­cle’s chas­sis near the back wheel.

She said the Em­per­or Val­ley Zoo was con­tact­ed and it took more than an hour to re­trieve the rep­tile.

The ve­hi­cle was brought in by a Massy em­ploy­ee from San Fer­nan­do.

It is be­lieved the snake made the trek from South to Port-of-Spain in the ve­hi­cle.

Mean­while Guptee Lutch­me­di­al told us the snake was brought in to the zoo with a slight burn on its tail, which ap­peared to be from the ex­haust.

He said the maca­juel is es­ti­mat­ed to be ap­prox­i­mate­ly 7 feet in length and will be re­leased in­to the wild to­day.

And that’s not all, we un­der­stand that while the snake was be­ing re­trieved, an­oth­er rep­tile, an igua­na walked up to the crowd to look at what was un­fold­ing.