Mexican citizen busted for crabs

Valley Morning Star/AP ^ | December 9, 2008

[SwinneySwitch]

McALLEN - Ever on the lookout for drugs, guns and money, customs agents at a Hidalgo County international bridge crossing busted 191 units of an unusual sort of contraband -- hermit crabs.

A 49-year-old Mexican citizen from McKinney, Texas, was crossing back into the United States at the Hidalgo Port of Entry when U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found a box full of live hermit crabs inside his vehicle and another bag of the crabs in the trunk,..

[SwinneySwitch]

They took the crabs and then fined him $1,910 for not declaring them.

[Severa]

Dunno about you but I got a hell of a chuckle just reading the headline...

[al baby]

Im stunned

[SouthTexas]

I better leave this one alone.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

There are so many bad jokes in your headline...........

[SwinneySwitch]

Ping!

If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.

[Red Badger]

One night in Tijuana..............

[voteNRA]

I’m itching to comment on this one but I think I will leave it alone

[Larry Lucido]

Headline ping.

[MeanWestTexan]

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But, he said his sister was a vir-gin.

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[COBOL2Java]

[Doogle]

"damm, now I'm gonna double the size of my next hairball. Thanks!"

[YHAOS]

"One night in Tijuana.............."

And that's what you get.

[70th Division]

I can’t believe THAT got by the editor.

[ScottinVA]

“Dunno about you but I got a hell of a chuckle just reading the headline...”

Ditto here. “Crabs” connoted something a little more up close and personal. LOL

[KarlInOhio]

A coworker's wife once gave him crabs for his birthday.

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

Confuseus say, “Better to get busted for crabs, than get crabs in bust.”

[ScottinVA]

“They took the crabs and then fined him $1,910 for not declaring them. “

Judging by that rather misleading headline, one might think they would’ve let (made) him keep the crabs and hustle him to the border pronto!

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

Butter not scratch that itch you have to comment on crabs.....

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Lawd. I thought the headline was about ‘panty crickets’ for a minute. ;)

[SwinneySwitch]

It was either this story or

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Inflation in Mexico has spiraled to 6.2 percent in November after already hitting a seven-year high.

I took the low road!;^(

[Young Werther]

We have Roger Corman to thank!

[Pistolshot]

How to Get Rid of Crabs

[wordsofearnest]

Blue Ointment bump

[sneakers]

“Panty crickets”! OMG! I’m busting up laughing on this thread! LOLOL!!

[sierrahome]

When my mother in law drowned in a bay in the northwest we were shocked to see 27 alaskan king crab attached to her body, were were able to bring her up the next day too but only 23 the second time.

[al_c]

A 49-year-old Mexican citizen from McKinney, Texas

A "Mexican citizen" from McKinney, TX? How's that?

[Dallas59]

[DemforBush]

There was a similar case a few years back of a guy getting caught trying to smuggle in 900 pounds of Mexican bologna in his car.

And yes, it’s taking all my better nature *not* to make a tasteless joke about the crab smuggler.... ;-)

[AuntB]

OMG!! LOL!

[pgkdan]

What in the hell was he doing with all those crabs? It’s not like you can eat hermit crabs...can you? I’ve never heard of anyone eating hermit crabs.

[JimRed]

How to Get Rid of Crabs (US Navy version)

1. Shave one side bare.

2. Set the other side on fire.

3. When the crabs come running out, stab ‘em with an ice pick!

[LiberConservative]

"Panty crickets"?!

ROTFLMAO!

(snort)

[Mike Fieschko]

What in the hell was he doing with all those crabs?

Bait.

[SwinneySwitch]

Mexican national living in McKinney.

[montesquiue]

“Panty crickets”??!!!
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OMG!!!! I’m laughing so hard I’m crying!!! Thanks. I really needed it...

[SwinneySwitch]

Chorizo found in ‘soiled diapers’, confiscated

The woman was fined $300 and released. The officers seized the chorizo (sausage).

http://www.valleymorningstar.com/news/diapers_37872___article.html/woman_border.html

[manic4organic]

Kids get them for pets.

[DemforBush]

Agggggghhh!!!!

[houeto]

[CSM]

” 49-year-old Mexican citizen from McKinney, Texas, “

Isn’t a Mexican citizen FROM Mexico?

[SwinneySwitch]

Presidente Felipe Calderon:

“Mexico does not end at its borders.”

“Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico.”

[nomorelurker]

I will never eat a Chorizo and egg breakfast taco again.

[CSM]

Good point.