SNAKES ON A PLANE?!?!
Snakes Almost on a Plane -- Man Caught With Serpents in Suitcase
Feb 24th 2009
By Tom Radler
The title of the 2006 film 'Snakes on a Plane' grabbed attention by combining two of mankind's major fears into the idea that you could be stuck in a commercial flight in midair with cobras everywhere.
In a scenario at least as enjoyable as that motion picture, a smuggler was caught in Australia on Friday after attempting to transport a stash of reptiles in his suitcase en route to Bangkok. The X-ray image below pretty much tells the tale -- cops saw some slithering and confiscated the bag. Inside it were '24 shingleback lizards, 16 bluetongue lizards, three black-headed pythons and an endangered albino carpet python.'
The carpet python is a particularly rare snake (with less than 100 left in the world), and the smuggler's entire haul were estimated to be worth between $160,000 and $200,000 (£80,000-£100,00) on the black market. The reptiles have been transferred to Sydney Wildlife World where they have undergone health checks and are being cared for.The smuggler is currently out on bail, but he could do as many as 10 years behind bars for attempting to export native animals without a permit.
While we're glad that airport security is at least effective enough to spot some pythons in a suitcase, we wonder what would have happened if he'd kept the snakes on his person. After all, it wasn't too long ago that a woman was able to conceal a sedated chimp in her clothing on an international flight.
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AAAAAHHH!!! could u imagine?! i get chills thinking about this...bleh!
Feb 24th 2009
By Tom Radler
The title of the 2006 film 'Snakes on a Plane' grabbed attention by combining two of mankind's major fears into the idea that you could be stuck in a commercial flight in midair with cobras everywhere.
In a scenario at least as enjoyable as that motion picture, a smuggler was caught in Australia on Friday after attempting to transport a stash of reptiles in his suitcase en route to Bangkok. The X-ray image below pretty much tells the tale -- cops saw some slithering and confiscated the bag. Inside it were '24 shingleback lizards, 16 bluetongue lizards, three black-headed pythons and an endangered albino carpet python.'
The carpet python is a particularly rare snake (with less than 100 left in the world), and the smuggler's entire haul were estimated to be worth between $160,000 and $200,000 (£80,000-£100,00) on the black market. The reptiles have been transferred to Sydney Wildlife World where they have undergone health checks and are being cared for.The smuggler is currently out on bail, but he could do as many as 10 years behind bars for attempting to export native animals without a permit.
While we're glad that airport security is at least effective enough to spot some pythons in a suitcase, we wonder what would have happened if he'd kept the snakes on his person. After all, it wasn't too long ago that a woman was able to conceal a sedated chimp in her clothing on an international flight.
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AAAAAHHH!!! could u imagine?! i get chills thinking about this...bleh!
