Story highlights Video of Zimbabwe man removing python from car goes viral

It was second time that day man had tangled with the snake

(CNN) There's car trouble, and then there's this.

A family in Zimbabwe discovered the root of their engine problems last week went beyond spark plugs and fuel injectors.

The Mosterts -- living in Karoi, just north of Harare -- were shocked to find a massive African rock python huddled under the hood of their vehicle.

The video of Ben Mostert removing the snake went viral. In the video Mostert calmly grabs the python around its neck so it couldn't bite him, while his 5-year-old son Patrick shouts in the background, "It's a rattlesnake! it's a rattlesnake! It's a massive snake!"

Mostert and another man move the python into the bush next to the road and quickly run away.

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