[CedarDave]

The inventory also listed some of the snakes’ names as shown in the images below:

[old school]

Wow!

[CedarDave]

Not your usual items from a drug seizure.

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[Dr. Sivana]

Imagine if he collected firearms instead of snakes.

[DannyTN]

[Flaming Conservative]

Please tell me the snakes were destroyed.

[dfwgator]

In before Indiana Jones.

[Sirius Lee]

Had I known what a douchenozzle Harrison Ford would turn into I would have been rooting for the snakes in the Indiana Jones movie.

[T-Bird45]

A new take on “Send money, guns, and lawyers”, I guess.

[LowOiL]

No word on who the perp was ? Sounds like a protected species himself.

[ek_hornbeck]

Drug kingpins love to keep dangerous wild animals to show how brave and macho they are - lots of them have big cats (tigers, leopards, lions), Pablo Escobar had hippos, others (like these guys, evidently) keep various venomous snakes.

Of course, it's all for show, they usually hire some guy as a handler to take all of the risks involved in keeping these "pets".

[PROCON]

[Zathras]

Taipan is from Australia.
I saw one in ‘95.
Imagine a cobra with a really bad attitude.

[proust]

“I don’t know who this person is,”

Neither do we, thank you for your service.

[wardaddy]

Fer de lance and bushmasters were ubiquitous where I hanged in the 80s

I killed a bushy once with my Land Rover 110

The locals I was letting ride in the back bed stopped me and one went off the thick jungle after it
Five minutes later he comes back with it about 7-8 foot

Supper he said glowingly

All he had was an old single shot Steven’s 12 bore which he didn’t need

I grew up Deep South

Cottonmouth copperhead and big cane rattlers were common

Rarely a coral snake

I saw one one nite in our pump house at lake bruin on the pier

Only one in my life

I was about 10

Red on yellow deadly fellow

Even then I knew that

[Zack Attack]

from Imgflip Meme Generator

[marktwain]

The snakes make the story. Three guns and $22,000 is not all that much anymore. Only about three months wages for many Americans. Three guns? barely getting started.

Yes, the cocaine is a bit much. I wonder if he has any priors.

Maybe he as dealing cocaine to support his snake habit...