Astoria, OR (AHN) -- Much to her chagrin, an Oregon woman found more than 20 slithering creatures in her car. Sherry Hart was on a shopping trip to when she found snakes wriggling all inside her coupe.

After purchasing her groceries from the store, Hart returned to her car in the parking lot and found a pair of garter snakes on the back seat of her car. To her surprise, she then found more under a floor mat.

"This lady was freaking out next to her car," says Will Brinkerhoff, 17, an employee at the North Coast Fred Meyer.

Eventually more than 20 of the harmless snakes were found inside the car, some pencil-thin and some were of the diameter of a quarter and 3 feet long.

Brinkerhoff, another employee and several customers helped clean out Hart's car.

One man dumped out his groceries and gave Hart the plastic carrying bags she could fill them with snakes.

When Warrenton police Officer Jim Gaebel arrived he guessed that one snake must have gotten into the car and had babies. Gaebel later told Hart that in all his years in police work, this was his first snake call.

But Hart believes it was a prank.

"Who did it? We don't know," Hart told the AP. She said she believes her car was chosen because a window stuck in the open position made it an easy target in the big parking lot.

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