Residents of Kabarnet town, Baringo County, were on Saturday treated to a rare spectacle after a 10-foot black mamba snake slithered out of a private car.
The owner of the Probox said to belong to a retired chief from Riwo village, was about to fuel his car around 10AM at the Kenol Petrol station before the bizarre incident happened.
“I was trying to open the fuel tank when a snake suddenly popped out of the left front seat, I was really scared,” petrol station attendant Larry Kipturmet said.
He said his female colleagues cried out for help prompting residents to rush to the scene.
Some of the residents were angered by the incident calling the owner of the vehicle a ‘witch’ and threatened to beat him up.
However, the vehicle owner refuted the claims saying he could not understand how the snake managed to enter his car.
“Please spare me. I am innocent,” he said before managing to speed off for fear of being lynched by the angry crowd.
In October 2015, a similar incident occurred where a black mamba came out of a matatu while the passengers were alighting at the Kabarnet bus terminus.
Baringo Senior KWS Warden Dickson Too said the snake normally strangles to suffocate its prey adding that it is the reason it has no history of killing humans.