Bodycam footage recently released by the Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Police Department captured an officer’s shock after discovering a massive, hissing rattlesnake while searching a car. 

Footage showed the officer being alerted to a noise in the backseat and opening a large plastic bin, only to find a snake feverishly rattling its tail at him.

“Yo, you got a rattlesnake in here?” the officer can be heard saying on his body-worn camera as he quickly closes the lid. “What the f—, dude! Are you kidding me? There’s a live rattlesnake in this bin.”

The officer had been checking park trailheads at 11:30 p.m. when he saw a car with drug paraphernalia in plain sight, police explain.

The owner of the vehicle — who was not in the car at the time — was dropped off at the scene by an Uber around the same time, according to the department. The vehicle owner told the officer that he had lent the car to a friend and was told to pick the car up at that location.

After the owner gave the officer consent to search the vehicle, police said the officer found methamphetamine, tin foil (with burn marks that suggest fentanyl usage), a gun and a large plastic bin, inside which the officer came face to face with the venomous reptile. The car owner appeared just as surprised as the officer at the wild discovery.

“It just cocked back and started trying to snap at me and I when I opened that,” he explains to another officer on scene, who says, “Holy s–t, that’s a big one.”

“Wow, I can honestly say I never expected to see that,” the officer adds before joking, “Does he have any other things that might bite me?”

The car’s owner will not be facing charges, though law enforcement is still searching for the friend who borrowed the vehicle. The drug paraphernalia, drugs and gun were booked into evidence, while the snake was left in the car.