[Alouette]

They could mingle very easily with the rest of the population, couldn't they?

[dennisw]

>>>>>>

[joesnuffy]

Carvelle family reunion?

[Prodigal Son]

Panic hit the Riyadh airport when 300 live poisonous cobras escaped from a passenger's luggage,

Well, if anything could cause a panic, I imagine 300 Cobras spilling out of a guy's suitcase would. Hell, I'd panic. I'd have made 'em a new exit to the place.

[piasa]

Are cobras part of some apocalyptic plague we should know about?

[LibKill]

I'd pay good money for the video. :)

Kinda have to wonder. What did the moron want with 300 egyptian cobras?

[Jeremiah Jr]

Well thats one way to keep people from going through your luggage!

[Ken H]

It could have been worse.

What if the cobras had gotten loose when the plane was airborne?

[Physicist]

I want to know why nobody thought it looked peculiar when it was x-rayed in Cairo.

[xJones]

Mohammad al-Dakheel, head of the airport's customs, said the snakes were killed in cooperation with the ministry of agriculture.

We should stand in a moment of silence with the Saudi ministry of agriculture who killed the cooperating snakes. Three hundred slithering cobras and nobody started snake-dancing in the airport.

[Billthedrill]

He declined to say how many the snakes had slithered free, but eyewitnesses estimated it at around 300.

Pure hysteria. You loose a crummy hundred or so deadly, poisonous cobras in an airport and right away people get upset and overestimate. People panic over every tiny thing...

[happygrl]

This is obvious. Saudis = venemous snakes.