--- title: Woman's Pickup Stalls Due to an Unexpected Case of Python description: What do you have under the hood? canonical: https://time.com/2978672/snake-truck/ author: Bijan Stephen article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-12T18:53:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:38.531Z og:title: Woman's Pickup Stalls Due to an Unexpected Case of Python og:description: What do you have under the hood? og:url: https://time.com/2978672/snake-truck/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman's Pickup Stalls Due to an Unexpected Case of Python twitter:description: What do you have under the hood? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Woman's Pickup Truck Stalls Due to an Unexpected Case of Python by [Bijan Stephen](https://time.com/author/bijan-stephen/) ## Bijan Stephen Jul 12, 2014 6:53 PM UTC by [Bijan Stephen](https://time.com/author/bijan-stephen/) ## Bijan Stephen Jul 12, 2014 6:53 PM UTC A woman in New Mexico found a surprise after her pickup truck stalled in Santa Fe. When she and local chef Jackson Ault (who stopped to help) popped the hood, they were greeted by a 20lb brown-and-yellow python in the engine block, the [Associated Press reports](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/popping-stalled-trucks-hood-yields-scaly-surprise): --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2978672/snake-truck/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2978672/snake-truck/"},"headline":"Woman's Pickup Truck Stalls Due to an Unexpected Case of Python","datePublished":"2014-07-12T18:53:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:38.531Z","description":"\"How much horsepower you got?\" \"Nah, man. Pythons.\"","url":"https://time.com/2978672/snake-truck/","keywords":["Newsfeed","New Mexico","animal"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Bijan Stephen","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/bijan-stephen/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2978672/snake-truck/","name":"Woman's Pickup Truck Stalls Due to an Unexpected Case of Python"}}]}] ```