It embarked on a scaly shopping spree.
Footage captured the giant monitor lizard frightened shoppers after it was spotted running amok at a Thai convenience store in a scene straight out of “Jurassic Park.”
A video of the reptile’s “Godzilla”-esque rampage is currently blowing up online.
“I was mesmerized by the lizard,” onlooker Buntita, 20, told Viral Press of the critter’s scaly shopping spree, which occurred October 11 at a 7-Eleven in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.
The ravenous reptile had reportedly stolen into the store and emerged onto a light fixture above the displays.
Footage shows the cold-blooded customer creeping along the light fixture like a cat burglar, before dropping down onto a fridge, causing onlookers to cry out in shock.
“It just came from nowhere and started walking across the food fridge,” exclaimed Buntita.
Thankfully, the lizard was “friendly” and “didn’t hurt anybody,” according to a college student, who said the massive mart-y crasher was eventually removed from the scene.
Monitor lizards can reportedly grow up to 8 feet long, making them the world’s second-largest lizard after the Komodo dragon, according to Everything Reptiles.
Fortunately, despite their massive size, the opportunistic predators don’t pose a threat to adult humans, instead choosing to feast on everything from eggs to small mammals and carrion, according to experts at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. (However, a dead infant was found partially eaten by monitors in southern Thailand in May 2020.)
This isn’t the first time one of these mammoth predators has caused mayhem at a mini-mart.
In an infamous incident in 2021, a massive Asian water monitor was filmed ransacking shelves at a 7-Eleven in Bangkok like a lizardy looter.