[BenLurkin]

Emphasis added

[coloradan]

They don’t call them crab rustlers for nothing.

[higgmeister]

Three men held over suitcases stuffed with hermit crabs

And I was trying to understand why anybody would hang men over suitcases stuffed with hermit crabs?   Some kind of Yakuza statement before putting them to death?   How Bizarre!

[GaltAdonis]

When I was a little kid I would beg my parents to buy me a hermit crab every August
when we were down at the seashore on summer vacation.
I don’t remember what my big fascination was with the silly things.
We would take the thing home and would always die within 6 or 8 months or so.
Regardless of what we did to keep it alive, feeding it different things or whatever.
It was all a pointless exercise, really.

[bunkerhill7]

Lobsters walk straight,
Crabs travel in suitcases.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Chinese are not stewards of God's nature. They are stewards of scams and grift and corruption.

[stanne]

Oh. They were held because of

I thought it was some kind of torture. An alternative to water boarding

[monkeyshine]

It was a long flight on a discount airline that didn’t serve meals ?

[txeagle]

I don’t understand......we had service members leave Japan with crabs all the time.....

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Why were the men held above the suitcases? Was that some sort of crab torture?

[Candor7]

Sons of Han have now aquired a terminal case of crabs.

[Recompennation]

“I have nothing to declare”

[rlmorel]

Bunch of wusses! Too afraid to go the traditional smuggler’s route of stuffing them down their pants!

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

They just bent them right over the bags....and then what? (No, don’t tell me!)