DC: The man, a U.S. citizen, was driving a truck through the San Ysidro border crossing when a CBP officer referred the vehicle for further inspection, according to a CBP media release posted March 8.
Officers seized bags containing 43 horned lizards and nine snakes, which were tucked into the man’s jacket and pants, according to the media release. more
Uranus is surprisingly dense.
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Jer, I’m in moderation too.
Turns out you can’t say **** or **** or **** or even *********.
Which is fine by me. I only write it so the people who have to check my posts in moderation have something interesting to read.
Is that a snake in your pants or are you just happy to see me.
Did he have a snapping turtle in his skivvies?
…this reminds me of several years ago with a different type of animal.
The local aquarium in Newport KY chose for some reason (proto-wokeness and virtue signalling probably, this was early 2000s) to add a “Rain Forest” section with otters and lorikeets to their aquarium. Not sure what this had to do with an “aquarium” in that lorikeets typically live as far from water as any flying creature tends to do, but it was quite a cash cow in that they sold little cups of nectar and these birds that are so trusting they probably blindly vote Democrat would come over and feed from the cup on your hand/head/shoulder/whatever you offered as a perch.
Lorikeets are some kind of semi-rare Austrailian mini parrot, and apparently are not sold in America because they tend to die if you don’t meet their koala-like specific environmental and nutrition requirements, so getting one would be an expensive achievement for a bird fan.
Which is probably why a couple of dumbasses stuffed them in their coats one day and hurried out of the building.
The aquarium folks did a beak count that night and found they were short, then looked at video and found the folks they suspected, but it was 2004 so the surveillance wasn’t as Orwellian as it is today. On a hunch though they staked out a local convention center holding an exotic bird show, and Guess Who showed up?
Yep, they were THAT stupid. They walked in there to show off their purloined parakeets from their Felony-level heist.
The birds were OK and returned to the exhibit after quarantine, but the aquarium gave up on the whole thing after that because it seemed to give other folks ideas.
Not sure what the moral of this story is, other than “don’t steal exotic animals”, because that just ruins it for everyone.
Although the lizard thing is a bit more baffling. They can find lizards on a guy at a border crossing, but don’t notice full-sized human beings trafficking children across the border every day?
…seems like that would be just a LITTLE easier to spot, just sayin’, you know, if the actually WANTED to…