Posted on 09/22/2007 7:18:31 AM PDT by wildbill
LOS ANGELES — A man accused of stealing three endangered iguanas from a nature preserve in Fiji and smuggling them into the United States in his prosthetic leg has been indicted.
Jereme James, 33, of Long Beach, faces a single count of smuggling, according to a federal indictment returned Friday in Los Angeles. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
Prosecutors say James stole the Fiji Island banded iguanas while visiting the South Pacific island in September 2002. He then brought the reptiles to the U.S. by hiding them in a special compartment he had constructed in his prosthetic leg, prosecutors said.
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I know this may lead to juvenile attempts at humor (snicker) but lets discuss with the seriousness it deserves. It's a slow news day.
Gives new meaning to the phrase, "ya wanna play with my lizard."
I'm sorry.
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“Is that an iguana in your pants or are you just glad to see me?”
At least I said I was sorry.
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How did they catch him? Did he have a reptile dysfunction?
"In My Prosthetic Leg" would be a good name for their debut album.
Are you pulling my leg?
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Too many puns! Iguana get outta here!
(Somebody wanted SERIOUS on this thread?)
;^)
ROFL..
daylight come and iguana go homeeeee....!
Iguanas make me jumpy, but it’s the snapping turtles in your briefs that get attention.
Iguana smuggled in braA young iguana is enjoying its new home at Blackpool Zoo after being smuggled into the country in a bra.
An eagle-eyed police officer at Blackpool International Airport stopped a Russian woman after spotting that something was "moving" inside her dress.
During a search by a female security guard the iguana peeked out from the top of her bra.
( let an electrician check your shorts ) or maybe an iguana.
Hey Boortz read a story of a lady who was smuggling an iguana in her bra when she flew. I guess where you go iguana go too?
Oh heck. The story says he smuggled out a handful of (presumably baby) iguanas back in ‘02. They nabbed him when he put four up for sale and said he was apparently running a breeding program. So they’re going to put the seized lizard in an official breeding program.
I say we should be congratulating this guy for his enterpreneurial acumen. If they’d simply let him go on about his business he might well have taken the species off the endangered list at no cost to any taxpayer. For those who know, it was private ranching not official “protection” in Florida that saved the gator and similar ventures in Australia that saved the “saltie,” lowering the price of the critters’ skins and meat and undercutting the profits of poaching.
Re: international iguana smuggling week
The U.S customs estimates that they only catch 10% of the drugs being smuggled into the country and I’m sure they look harder for drugs than iguanas. (Well, maybe.)
So it’s absolutely mind-boggling how many iguanas may actually be smuggled into the country daily.
Given their breeding capacity, we’ll soon be up to our prosthetic arses in iguanas.
Reptilian Cognitive Dissonance Ping
(I know, you’re an amphibian, but just plain “ping” is so.....plain.)
I thought it was supposed to be “dear Lord I apologize for that right there.”
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