Agents Seize 411 Bottles of Rattlesnake-Infused Vodka in Texas Raid

FoxNews.com ^ | March 18, 2008 | FoxNews

[Squidpup]

Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission officials were rattled Thursday by the discovery of over 400 bottles of illegal booze, each containing a 10-inch rattlesnake in the bottle, the Texas Star-Telegram reported.

After receiving a tip several weeks ago, TABC agents raided Bayou Bob’s Brazos River Rattlesnake Ranch in Palo Pinto County after the reptile-infused vodka was sold to undercover agents, the paper reported. 411 bottles of the serpent sauce were seized.

“In my 20 years with the TABC, I’ve never seen anything like it,” Sgt. Charlie Cloud told the Star-Telegram.

TABC officials told the Star-Telegram that they plan to file charges next week for the sale of alcohol without a permit and possession of alcohol with the intent to sell. Penalties for those charges include up to a year in the county jail and fines up to $1,000 upon conviction.

Infusing alcohol with snakes or scorpions is believed to possess aphrodisiac properties, TABC officials told the paper. The practice, in which alcohol is poured over the body of a snake or scorpion, is popular in Asian cultures.

[Squidpup]

Would love to have seen these guys trying to collect rattlesnakes to put in the bottles...

[EyeGuy]

“Infusing alcohol with snakes or scorpions is believed to possess aphrodisiac properties....”

Putting Viagra to shame?

Fortnight-long tumescence in an 85 year old?.

[ClearCase_guy]

Sounds interesting. Gimme the 411!

[from occupied ga]

When I was a kid I was friends with a Chinese family who ran a restaurant. They had about a dozen large (water cooler sized) bottles of “rattlesnake whiskey” in the basement at any given time, and yes you could see the rattlesnakes in the whiskey. I thought it was gross (and therefore pretty neat) when I was a kid.

[The SISU kid]

Not-A-Ping.......but desperately waiting to read your “witicisms”

8^)

[the_devils_advocate_666]

I wonder what a bottle sold for on the black market?

[Joe 6-pack]

In Korea you could get rat soju up by the DMZ (supposedly smuggled in from the north).

Nothing like a dinner of dog washed down with rat.

[capt. norm]

I have some fishing friends that have a different take on snakes.

Every year they set out on a fishing/camping excursion up the Apalachicola River.

In case of snake bite, they pack a case of scotch, and to keep the scotch from going to waste, they also carry a half-case of snakes.

[Slings and Arrows]

Irishman: "Spit it out, ya bastard!"

[Billthedrill]

You see this stuff in Japan as well. It has a real bite to it.

[Cicero]

Texans are drinking vodka?

I could understand a little rattlesnake in bourbon, now.

[ducdriver]

PETA will be unhappy.

[montomike]

I’ve never understood why people drink scotch when they can drink Irish whiskey!

[Red Badger]

Modern day “Snake Oil” salesmen!.............

[from occupied ga]

Nothing like a dinner of dog washed down with rat.

Mmmm ka-li with nouc mam sauce

[Red Badger]

I’ve never understood why people drink scotch when they can drink Irish whiskey!

I never understood a single word he said, but I helped him drink his wine! You know he always had some very fine wine!........

[Young Werther]

411 Bottles of Rattlesnake-Infused Vodka on the wall

411 Bottles of Rattlesnake-Infused Vodka.

If one of those bottles should happen to fall,

410 Bottles of Rattlesnake-Infused Vodka on the wall.

410 Bottles of Rattlesnake-Infused Vodka on the wall

410 Bottles of Rattlesnake-Infused Vodka.

If one of those bottles should happen to fall,

409 Bottles of Rattlesnake-Infused Vodka on the wall.

[Red Badger]

Izzat anything like Rat-on-a-stick?.....

[from occupied ga]

After receiving a tip several weeks ago,

A dissatisfied customer ratted them out (snaked them out)

[from occupied ga]

different meat source