Man Leaves Car Window Open Overnight and Finds a Sloth Trying to Slowly Drive Vehicle the Next Day

Mar. 15, 2025

A driver in Brazil has discovered what it’s really like to encounter a slowpoke behind the wheel.

Antônio Luiz Laghi of Manaus, Brazil, was getting ready to go to a doctor’s appointment earlier this month, according to the Associated Press, when he entered his garage and came across an unlikely guest hanging off the steering wheel of his vehicle — a wild sloth!

The 73-year-old resident of the Ponta Negra neighborhood of Manaus then took out his phone and documented the silly moment, which has sincegone viralon TikTok.

According to Laghi’s son Bruno, his father left the windows of his car open the evening before to cool off, a decision that ultimately left him with an uninvited new pal in the driver’s seat.

Sloth on steering wheel.Amazon Agency

Amazon Agency

Sloth lovers in the video’s comment section also cracked a few jokes about the harmless carjacking, with one TikTok user writing in Portuguese, “Literally when you want to do something and laziness won’t let you.” Another commented, “How people from the United States think life is like for everyone here in Brazil.”

While sloths may be cute, especially when randomly hanging on to the wheel of a car, theSloth Conservation Foundationnotes that wild sloths “do not crave or seek out human contact” and can potentially be dangerous to humans, “inflicting deep puncture wounds and even permanent nerve damage.”

It’s already been a pretty big few months for sloths, as just over two months ago, a sloth family at Zoo Atlantawelcomed a new little one.

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“We are very excited about the birth of Nutella’s infant,” Gina Ferrie, Zoo Atlanta’s vice president of collections and conservation, said at the time. “Sloths have so many fascinating adaptations and behaviors that we can share with our Members and guests, and while they are not currently classified as endangered, they have an emerging conservation story that can help us appreciate the impact of human activities on wild animals and ecosystems.”

source: people.com