15 rare giant land snails that can grow to be the size of a person's FIST and cause a rare form of meningitis are captured in Houston airport

The Daily Mail ^ | 25 Jul 2021 | Chris Ciaccia

[blueplum]

15 giant land snails have been captured at a Houston airport, officials said The snails, 0.25 pounds of dried beef and fresh leaves were seized at George Bush Intercontinental Airport They were seized by US Customs and Border Protection and eventually turned over to the US Department of Agriculture They were first spotted in southern Florida in the 1960s and it took nearly 10 years and $1 million to get rid of them...

[blueplum]

no Lady, snails can't be comfort animals

[BradyLS]

They were first spotted in southern Florida in the 1960s and it took nearly 10 years and $1 million to get rid of them...

Those old snails are tough!

[Bob434]

snails in Hawaii cause some kind of brain crap too- rat-lung parasite or something like that

“Rat Lung Disease Symptoms Symptoms may include: stiffness of the neck, stiffness of the back, red eyes, skin tingling, sensitivity to light, severe headache, hallucinations, vomiting, or even flu like symptoms like nausea. “

http://rat-lungworm-disease.weebly.com/the-symptoms.html

[Salamander]

“Captured”?

Couldn’t have been much of a high speed chase/game of wits involved.

;)

[Mr Radical]

"They were seized from the luggage of a Nigerian woman, who initially said that she only had dried beef, but later added that she also had the snails."

This begs sooooo many questions...

[Bonemaker]

Yummy..escargot!

[Gay State Conservative]

Another gift from our good friends from points south?

[Gay State Conservative]

Sorry...I have no respect for people who eat snails and bunny rabbits.

[oldasrocks]

Bunny rabbits taste good.

[BozoTexino]

I’ve watched episodes of ‘To Catch A Smuggler’ where these idiots are always trying to bring in some weird food from their countries. I just don’t get it.

[Gay State Conservative]

Remember that line from Jules in Pulp Fiction: "Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie but I ain't gonna eat one".

I have the same attitude toward bunny rabbits.

[Gay State Conservative]

I watch those shows on youtube all the time...”Airport Canada”...”Airport US”...”Airport Britain”. Some Third World foreigners seem to think that we don’t have any food here in the civilized world. So they decide to bring in fish that’s been dead for a few months.

[fidelis]

When I was stationed at Anderson AFB in Guam in the late 70’s, they had these giant land snails called Hercules Snails. You had to do a walk-thru of your lawn before you mowed it to avoid getting them chewed up by the lawn mower. They were known to be toxic to eat, but about every few months or so you’d read about some yayhoo that tried to and got deathly ill.

[minnesota_bound]

Gordan Ramsey might cook them up.