Imagine walking into a 7-Eleven to discover a giant Asian water monitor scaling the shelves. Well, this is what happened inside a Nakhon Pathom convenience store.
According to the Seattle Times, the six-foot lizard was scaling the shelves placed right beside the beverage cooler as bystanders screamed and recorded in fear and amazement.
Customers of the 7-Eleven store located in the Thai City of Nakhon Pathom, near Bangkok, said the lizard crashed to the floor three times, but due to its muscular build, it didn’t stop there. It continued roaming the shelves with its mind fixed on the ice dispenser, video shows.
Witnesses say the lizard remained on the shelves for at least an hour. Experts on reptiles say monitor lizards can grow in length up to nine feet long.
Apparently, the lizard was guided out of the store and not captured by rescuers.
“It just ran away into the bushes,” an employee of the store told a British tabloid. “I’ve never seen a monitor lizard that big in my life.”
“They’re dangerous animals, especially when they’re angry,” store customer Narumpa Tangsin said, according to media accounts. “I stayed back and recorded it on my phone. I guess that shops have everything, even for lizards.
Footage of the giant lizard circulated, and it soon picked up the nickname “Godzilla” as users continued to share footage of it running along the shelves.
It’s unknown how the lizard entered the 7-Eleven, but some say it may have been trying to get out of the humid weather.
