Snakes found in luggage at Ga. airport

[maseman]

Source: MSNBC/AP

ATLANTA - Airport security officers are used to finding strange critters while screening luggage, they just don't encounter the kind that have venom too often.

A man flying into Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport from South Korea recently packed 30 dead snakes in jars and bottles inside boxes he checked as luggage, said Jon Allen, spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration.



Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20676810/

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The Doors song "People Are Strange" comes into my mind...

[grytpype]

1. Allow me...

[UrbScotty]

2. DANG IT! Why did you have to beat me to it?!

:D

[maseman]

3. HAHAHAHA

I forgot about that movie...b

[HughMoran]

4. Somebody had to be the first to post that

good one

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. Thank you

I bet the majority of us were thinking it. :P

[drm604]

5. I'm guessing that the man is some kind of scientist or taxidermist.

Or perhaps he uses the animal parts to manufacture some kind of traditional "medicines".

[dipsydoodle]

6. If they'd been vegetables

he could have said "It's your current Administration - I took them all on holiday"

[AndyTiedye]

7. Were They Baby Snakes?

[silverweb]

8. Well that was a letdown.

The headline and first sentence had me thinking they found living, venomous snakes being smuggled by some warped dude in his baggage.

Dead specimens carefully packed in jars and then lovingly boxed up do not count for the "OMG!" factor.

Sheesh.

[Retrograde]

9. That's cause TSA won't all them in carryon baggage

No liquids, remember? What did they expect him to do?

ETA: as long as he declared them properly, what's the problem? If he didn't, then there are laws about bringing animals or parts thereof into the country.

[silverweb]

11. Sorry... I forgot the appropriate smiley.

My comment was tongue-in-cheek sarcastic, not serious, and I should have used some silly little smiley guy to make that clear. I do know about TSA restrictions, having flown cross-country recently myself.

[merwin]

10. I'm sick of these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!

Sorry, had to say it.

[kitty1]

12. Maybe his mother in law had a birthday coming up...n/t

[sakabatou]

13. "Goddamn muthafucking snakes on a plane!"

[jmowreader]

15. Someone smuggled dead snakes from Korea into the US?

Come on now. They get the motherfucking snakes they sell in Korea from the United States. Why the hell would you bring them back?