Maricopa County Sheriff's Office

Arizona Game and Fish Department officials reported Friday that a driver unknowingly struck a bobcat on the way to work recently in Gila Bend, and it got stuck in the driver's truck.

Horsepower is one thing, but an Arizona man driving to work wound up with a live bobcat underneath his vehicle's hood.

Arizona Game and Fish Department officials reported Friday that a driver unknowingly struck a bobcat on the way to work recently in Gila Bend.

The unidentified man didn’t know he hit the animal until he parked and heard some noise under the hood. When he looked, two eyes were staring back at him.

Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies from District 2 — which covers Gila Bend, Tonopah, the southwest areas of the Phoenix metropolitan area and other communities — arrived to help as did Game and Fish workers. They were able to sedate the bobcat and remove it from the truck’s engine compartment behind the grille.

They say the bobcat wasn’t injured and was released back into the wild.