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Feds: Lizards hidden in hollow leg
Associated Press ^
| 7:59 a.m. EDT, Sat September 22, 2007
| A.P. not given
Posted on 09/22/2007 10:57:11 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass
Edited on 09/22/2007 12:38:49 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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U.S. game officials seized this Fiji Island banded iguana was seized from a Long Beach, California, home.
Jereme James, 33, of Long Beach, California, 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.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: lizards; smuggling
....interest to nature lovers.....to heck w/greenie wienies/ecowackos=ecoterrorists./albore/
To: skinkinthegrass
I hope he didn’t have the leg cut off just to enhance his career...
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posted on
09/22/2007 11:01:30 AM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
To: editor-surveyor
...Just making the best, of a given situation....I guess.
32000us$ for some lizards.....4.99us$ ea. here.
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posted on
09/22/2007 11:44:24 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you....Run, Fred, Run. :^)
To: skinkinthegrass
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.
What's the rest of your life like if this makes sense to you?
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posted on
09/22/2007 12:16:23 PM PDT
by
RobinOfKingston
(Man, that's stupid...even by congressional standards.)
To: skinkinthegrass
Is this what they mean by reptile dysfunction?
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posted on
09/22/2007 12:27:00 PM PDT
by
ditto h
To: RobinOfKingston
What's the rest of your life like if this makes sense to you?*grin* I'm not saying "makes sense"....just making out the best he can.....not approval.
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posted on
09/22/2007 12:38:22 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you....Run, Fred, Run. :^)
To: ditto h
Is this what they mean by reptile dysfunction?....certainly not the lizards....he should use the leg on International Pirate Day (09/19/08), next year.
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posted on
09/22/2007 12:43:52 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you....Run, Fred, Run. :^)
To: RobinOfKingston
the world needs a few sorts who hide lizards in fake legs. dunno why but i am pretty sure it would be a dull place without them
To: modest proposal
Is that a lizard in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
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posted on
09/22/2007 12:49:41 PM PDT
by
null and void
(<---- Awake and filled with a terrible resolve...)
To: skinkinthegrass
This would never happen if one wouldn’t go putting ones lizard where it didn’t belong.
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posted on
09/22/2007 3:07:23 PM PDT
by
festus
(No matter how guilty you are a jury will probably get you off.)
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