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Passenger Caught at Cairo Airport With 96 Snakes
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| Sunday, December 23, 2012
Posted on 12/23/2012 10:08:04 AM PST by nickcarraway
Customs suspected passenger’s bulging clothes inside bag
Egyptian authorities arrested a man who was about to board a flight from Cairo to Saudi Arabia with 96 snakes he planned to sell in the Gulf Kingdom.
Customs men in Cairo suspected the passenger’s bulging clothes inside his bag as he headed for the aircraft, newspapers in Egypt and Saudi Arabia said.
When they searched the bag again, they found 96 snakes with a length ranging between 30 and 90 cm each.
The man said he had concealed the snakes to take them to Saudi Arabia to sell them for a large sum of money to known customers. The papers said the snakes ere of various types but it was not clear if they were poisonous.
TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Travel; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: napl
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To: nickcarraway
Do they make good purses??
To: nickcarraway
SNAKES ON A.... (wait)
SNAKES IN AN AIRPORT!
(hmmm.. lacks impact...)
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posted on
12/23/2012 10:10:18 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Here comes bama claus here comes bama claus left down bama claus lane!)
To: nickcarraway
What could go wrong?
To: nickcarraway
This is tried occasionally. It makes me wonder how often it happens that the people are getting away with it.
Maybe the guy should have claimed they were service animals to help with his anxiety over flying and holiday stress.
To: nickcarraway
Steven Price: Snakes don't attack, unless they're provoked. Something up there's making them go crazy, possibly some kind of drug.
Neville: Well, that's good news: snakes on crack.
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posted on
12/23/2012 10:14:01 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(kak-is-toc-ra-cy: Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. See: GOP-e)
To: Dr. Pritchett
Maybe the guy should have claimed they were service animals to help with his anxiety over flying and holiday stress.TSA regulations specifically exclude snakes from the "emotional support animals" the "disabled" are allowed to bring on planes.
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posted on
12/23/2012 10:17:50 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(If I had two dead rats, I'd give you one.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
12/23/2012 10:19:29 AM PST
by
GenXteacher
(You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
To: Tax-chick
"TSA regulations specifically exclude snakes from the "emotional support animals" the "disabled" are allowed to bring on planes." In that case, he should have smuggled them inside his pot-bellied pig.
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posted on
12/23/2012 10:20:01 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Joe 6-pack
LOL! Great idea! Might work for smuggling drugs or prohibited botanical samples, too.
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posted on
12/23/2012 10:21:28 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(If I had two dead rats, I'd give you one.)
To: nickcarraway
Customs men in Cairo suspected the passenger’s bulging clothes inside his bag as he headed for the aircraft,
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NOW that is a great line for parsing and WTF?
I am sure something was lost in translation
but my ORIGINAL conjuration had snakes concealed in his ‘Bulging Clothes’ BUT then they put inside his bag and made me wonder if he was outfitted with a catheter or perhaps he had a bad case of ‘T Cancer’ and possessed a large sac, which in itself would give a whole new meaning to ‘Snake(s) in the Grass’.
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posted on
12/23/2012 10:23:50 AM PST
by
xrmusn
(6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
To: nickcarraway
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
12/23/2012 12:23:49 PM PST
by
Mr. Silverback
(I want a hippopotamus for Christmas! Only a hippopotamus will do!)
To: nickcarraway
Who said, “Is that a snake in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?” Or, did I get it wrong?
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posted on
12/23/2012 1:49:14 PM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: Mr. Silverback; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ..
The papers said the snakes ere of various types but it was not clear if they were poisonous.Probably not. Whether they were venomous remains to be seen.
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posted on
12/23/2012 1:54:40 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Tax-chick; Dr. Pritchett
Hmmm. How did you know that? Have you tried? Is that justified?
To: Tax-chick
To: Slings and Arrows
You mean if someone put a snake in your gin and tonic, it wouldn’t be poisonous?
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
12/23/2012 2:34:41 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: nickcarraway
How did you know that? Have you tried?I read it on Free Republic.
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posted on
12/23/2012 3:19:29 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(If I had two dead rats, I'd give you one.)
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