bit of a shock for customs
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stitched

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3,813 posts

203 months

Sunday 5th December 2010
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20101204/twl-tarantula-...

Made me laugh thinking about the fella who opened the initial package.

Silver

4,373 posts

256 months

Sunday 5th December 2010
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article said:
The probe began last March when customs officers found 300 live tarantulas during a routine search of a package.
yikes

Dogwatch

6,383 posts

252 months

Sunday 5th December 2010
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Perhaps more a web of deceit than a sting operation?

getmecoat

Ayahuasca

27,584 posts

309 months

Sunday 5th December 2010
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This story has legs.

Halb

53,012 posts

213 months

Monday 6th December 2010
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Not sure which is funnier. This;
"Koppler added that he could in theory smuggle tarantulas in his luggage when flying to Los Angeles, and would not be caught nine times out of 10 - but he preferred not to take the risk."
Or this;
"I am a foreigner and they will probably put me in prison. You have special laws. "You have other laws that we don't have" in Germany, he said, according to the affidavit."
biggrin

Ayahuasca

27,584 posts

309 months

Monday 6th December 2010
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Or this:





"20 years for smuggling spiders?? WTF?? What if I just stamped on them???"