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Cairo Airport Customs Seize Egyptian Trying to Smuggle 700 Live Snakes on Plane
Thursday , May 24, 2007


CAIRO, Egypt —

Customs officers at Cairo's airport on Thursday detained a man bound for Saudi Arabia who was trying to smuggle 700 live snakes on a plane, airport authorities said.

The officers were stunned when a passenger, identified as Yahia Rahim Tulba, after being asked to open his carry-on bag, told them it contained live snakes.

Tulba opened his bag to show the snakes to the police and asked the officers, who held a safe distance, not to come close. Among the various snakes, hidden in small cloth sacks, were two poisonous cobras.

The Egyptian said he had hoped to sell the snakes in Saudi Arabia. Police confiscated the snakes and turned Tulba over to the prosecutor's office, accusing him of violating export laws and endangering the lives of other passengers.

According to the customs officials, Tulba claimed the snakes are wanted by Saudis who display them in glass jars in shops, keep them as pets or sell them to research centers.

The value of the snakes was not immediately known.

TubaAlex wrote:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CdSUrtFdXUQ

Chapter 427 of Bill's List of Needless Trivial Points--Prior to the Vietnam War, there were no snakes on the island of Guam. There were over 500 rare species of animals of almost every kind on the island--except snakes. During the Vietnam War, C-141s and C-130s flew from various Air Force bases on the U.S mainland, stopping at Andersen Air Force Base on Guam briefly before flying away to Saigon. When they flew the empty airplanes back to the States, they would stay at Andersen many days with all the doors open. This allowed any stowaway animals to creep out of them. Consequently, thousands of brown tree snakes emerged from the airplanes and populated Guam with one new species of animal life. The only problem was that the diet of the brown tree snakes included the all of the 500 rare species of animals found there. Having lived on the island, I can tell you they are everywhere!

TubaAlex wrote:

there's a motherf***ing bag of motherf***ing snakes on this motherf***ing plane...