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Passenger Caught at Cairo Airport With 96 Snakes
Emirates 24/7 ^ | Sunday, December 23, 2012

Posted on 12/23/2012 10:08:04 AM PST by nickcarraway

Customs suspected passenger’s bulging clothes inside bag

Egyptian authorities arrested a man who was about to board a flight from Cairo to Saudi Arabia with 96 snakes he planned to sell in the Gulf Kingdom.

Customs men in Cairo suspected the passenger’s bulging clothes inside his bag as he headed for the aircraft, newspapers in Egypt and Saudi Arabia said.

When they searched the bag again, they found 96 snakes with a length ranging between 30 and 90 cm each.

The man said he had concealed the snakes to take them to Saudi Arabia to sell them for a large sum of money to known customers. The papers said the snakes ere of various types but it was not clear if they were poisonous.


TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Travel; Weird Stuff
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1 posted on 12/23/2012 10:08:12 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Do they make good purses??


2 posted on 12/23/2012 10:09:20 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: nickcarraway

SNAKES ON A.... (wait)

SNAKES IN AN AIRPORT!

(hmmm.. lacks impact...)


3 posted on 12/23/2012 10:10:18 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Here comes bama claus here comes bama claus left down bama claus lane!)
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To: nickcarraway
What could go wrong?


4 posted on 12/23/2012 10:11:39 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: nickcarraway

This is tried occasionally. It makes me wonder how often it happens that the people are getting away with it.

Maybe the guy should have claimed they were service animals to help with his anxiety over flying and holiday stress.


5 posted on 12/23/2012 10:12:31 AM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: nickcarraway

Steven Price: Snakes don't attack, unless they're provoked. Something up there's making them go crazy, possibly some kind of drug.

Neville: Well, that's good news: snakes on crack.


6 posted on 12/23/2012 10:14:01 AM PST by COBOL2Java (kak-is-toc-ra-cy: Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. See: GOP-e)
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Maybe the guy should have claimed they were service animals to help with his anxiety over flying and holiday stress.

TSA regulations specifically exclude snakes from the "emotional support animals" the "disabled" are allowed to bring on planes.

7 posted on 12/23/2012 10:17:50 AM PST by Tax-chick (If I had two dead rats, I'd give you one.)
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To: nickcarraway

Hmm...96 counts of animal trafficking....guess he’s be crying:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgfnCTp3p7U


8 posted on 12/23/2012 10:19:29 AM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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"TSA regulations specifically exclude snakes from the "emotional support animals" the "disabled" are allowed to bring on planes."

In that case, he should have smuggled them inside his pot-bellied pig.

9 posted on 12/23/2012 10:20:01 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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LOL! Great idea! Might work for smuggling drugs or prohibited botanical samples, too.


10 posted on 12/23/2012 10:21:28 AM PST by Tax-chick (If I had two dead rats, I'd give you one.)
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Customs men in Cairo suspected the passenger’s bulging clothes inside his bag as he headed for the aircraft,
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NOW that is a great line for parsing and WTF?

I am sure something was lost in translation

but my ORIGINAL conjuration had snakes concealed in his ‘Bulging Clothes’ BUT then they put inside his bag and made me wonder if he was outfitted with a catheter or perhaps he had a bad case of ‘T Cancer’ and possessed a large sac, which in itself would give a whole new meaning to ‘Snake(s) in the Grass’.


11 posted on 12/23/2012 10:23:50 AM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
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To: nickcarraway

96 snakes made me think of the song 96 Tears:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgfnCTp3p7U


12 posted on 12/23/2012 11:39:24 AM PST by ConservativeStatement (Having an abortion is "progressive"?)
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To: Slings and Arrows

NAPL!


13 posted on 12/23/2012 12:23:49 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (I want a hippopotamus for Christmas! Only a hippopotamus will do!)
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To: nickcarraway

Who said, “Is that a snake in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?” Or, did I get it wrong?


14 posted on 12/23/2012 1:49:14 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Mr. Silverback; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ..
The papers said the snakes ere of various types but it was not clear if they were poisonous.

Probably not. Whether they were venomous remains to be seen.


15 posted on 12/23/2012 1:54:40 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Tax-chick; Dr. Pritchett

Hmmm. How did you know that? Have you tried? Is that justified?


16 posted on 12/23/2012 1:56:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Tax-chick

What about tapeworms?


17 posted on 12/23/2012 1:59:40 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Slings and Arrows

You mean if someone put a snake in your gin and tonic, it wouldn’t be poisonous?


18 posted on 12/23/2012 2:01:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
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19 posted on 12/23/2012 2:34:41 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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How did you know that? Have you tried?

I read it on Free Republic.

20 posted on 12/23/2012 3:19:29 PM PST by Tax-chick (If I had two dead rats, I'd give you one.)
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