WATCH | Is that a python in your boot‚ sir?

Police pulled over a black Golf GTI snaking its way through East London and discovered a nearly two-metre-long python in the boot.

East London police spokesperson Warrant Officer Hazel Mqala said police had received a tip-off about the car with an endangered snake species inside on Monday.

The wanted vehicle was spotted by a vigilant off-duty K9 Unit policeman‚ Warrant Officer Pieter Swanepoel‚ who followed it in his personal vehicle‚ the Daily Dispatch reported on Tuesday.

When the Golf was pulled over‚ a rare red tail boa constrictor python was found inside a kit bag‚ next to a large sub-woofer in the boot. The two occupants of the vehicle were promptly arrested.

"According to the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act. 10 of 2004 a person may not carry out a restricted quantity involving a specimen of a listed invasive species without a permit‚" said Mqala.

There was a commotion in the street as the reptile was taken out of the bag. Crowds of people gathered around the crime scene to get a look.

Community newspaper GO! & Express shared some of the action on video‚ as posted by Scelo Sanda on Facebook.