The impersonal invertebrate was fibbing quiescent on a pavement nearby Lorch in Baden-Württemberg when military arrived during a stage shortly after 7 pm.
But officers were uncertain either a animal was not relocating due to a cold, or was in fact dead.
A veterinarian was called to a stage and guarded that a lizard had in fact shuffled off this mortal coil.
A veterinarian examines a jaws of a four-foot python found on a highway in south-west Germany. Photo :DPA
Police are now perplexing to find out how a python came to be on a highway side.
Pythons are a stable class in Germany and can usually be owned with a special licence, Stern reports.
Article source: http://www.thelocal.de/20160318/4-meter-python-discovered-on-south-german-road