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Published Date: 27 October 2009
A man has been arrested in Norway trying to smuggle two dozen snakes and geckos into the country by taping them to his body.


Customs agents said the Norwegian citizen, 22, was arrested in Kristiansand after getting off a ferry from Denmark. He had 14 royal pythons and ten albino leopard geckos hidden under his clothes.

The non-venomous snakes were stowed in stockings duct-taped to the man's abdomen, and the geckos were in boxes taped to his thighs.

Customs officials searched him on Sunday after finding a tarantula in one of his bags.


The royal pythons the man tried to smuggle


The man taped boxes to his legs


The albino leopard geckos



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  • Last Updated: 27 October 2009 8:43 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Jose Hartley,

27/10/2009 16:08:54
Snaker du engelsk?
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27/10/2009 17:10:23
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28/10/2009 00:09:14
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warthog,

edinburgh 28/10/2009 12:27:57
This might be amusing to some but wildlife smuggling like this is big criminal business - snakes, lizards, spiders, parrots, birds of prey, orchids...are all smuggled into the EU...

I actually find the people who buy and keep such wild animals as "pets", in captivity for the rest of their lives every bit as repulsive and culpable as the trappers, dealers and smugglers..

No market, no crime.
5

newsreader,

28/10/2009 12:49:49
not uncommon, once had a load of crabs down my pants ;-)
6

Translucent,

10/11/2009 13:21:20
This guy is absolutely crazy.

 

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