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Mexican citizen busted for crabs
Valley Morning Star/AP ^
| December 9, 2008
Posted on 12/09/2008 12:31:37 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
McALLEN - Ever on the lookout for drugs, guns and money, customs agents at a Hidalgo County international bridge crossing busted 191 units of an unusual sort of contraband -- hermit crabs.
A 49-year-old Mexican citizen from McKinney, Texas, was crossing back into the United States at the Hidalgo Port of Entry when U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found a box full of live hermit crabs inside his vehicle and another bag of the crabs in the trunk,..
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: corruption; crabs; mexico; smuggling
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They took the crabs and then fined him $1,910 for not declaring them.
To: SwinneySwitch
Dunno about you but I got a hell of a chuckle just reading the headline...
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:32:38 PM PST
by
Severa
(I can't take this stress anymore...quick, get me a marker to sniff....)
To: SwinneySwitch
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:33:34 PM PST
by
al baby
(Hi mom IF DA BIRTH PLACE IS A LIE, BEING DA PRESIDENT AIN'T GONNA FLY!)
To: SwinneySwitch
I better leave this one alone.
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:35:04 PM PST
by
SouthTexas
(Remember, it took a Jimmy Carter to bring us a Ronald Reagan!)
To: SwinneySwitch
There are so many bad jokes in your headline...........
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:35:50 PM PST
by
AxelPaulsenJr
(Please God Save The United States From The Democrats. Amen.)
To: MNDude; CPT Clay; BellStar; bayouranger; stan_sipple; time4good; Guenevere; mugsaway; CSM; ...
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:35:53 PM PST
by
SwinneySwitch
(Mexico - beyond your expectations.)
To: SwinneySwitch
One night in Tijuana..............
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:36:22 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
To: SwinneySwitch
I’m itching to comment on this one but I think I will leave it alone
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:37:10 PM PST
by
voteNRA
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:37:33 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Sorry, all out of free Brightsides and Lazamatazes. If you took two, please return one.)
To: SwinneySwitch
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But, he said his sister was a vir-gin.
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:37:54 PM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
To: SwinneySwitch
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:37:55 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Obamanation: an imploding administration headed by a clueless schmuck)
To: Severa
"damm, now I'm gonna double the size of my next hairball. Thanks!"
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:38:05 PM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Red Badger
"
One night in Tijuana.............."
And that's what you get.
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:38:15 PM PST
by
YHAOS
To: SwinneySwitch
I can’t believe THAT got by the editor.
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:39:36 PM PST
by
70th Division
(I love my country but fear my government!)
To: Severa
“Dunno about you but I got a hell of a chuckle just reading the headline...”
Ditto here. “Crabs” connoted something a little more up close and personal. LOL
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:39:57 PM PST
by
ScottinVA
(Gloucester County, VA -- Standing for America! 63% for McCain-Palin on 4 Nov)
To: SwinneySwitch
A coworker's wife once gave him crabs for his birthday.
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:41:14 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(11/4: The revolutionary socialists beat the Fabian ones. Where can we find a capitalist party?)
To: Gabz; Slip18; secret garden; Xenalyte; Lazamataz; Severa; SwinneySwitch
Confuseus say, “Better to get busted for crabs, than get crabs in bust.”
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:43:56 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: SwinneySwitch
“They took the crabs and then fined him $1,910 for not declaring them. “
Judging by that rather misleading headline, one might think they would’ve let (made) him keep the crabs and hustle him to the border pronto!
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:44:05 PM PST
by
ScottinVA
(Gloucester County, VA -- Standing for America! 63% for McCain-Palin on 4 Nov)
To: voteNRA
Butter not scratch that itch you have to comment on crabs.....
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posted on
12/09/2008 12:45:06 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: SwinneySwitch
Lawd. I thought the headline was about ‘panty crickets’ for a minute. ;)
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