US: Man hides 7 snakes, 3 tortoises in pants

[AsahinaKimi]

MIAMI (AP) -- U.S. officials say a man tried to board a flight from Miami to Brazil with bags of exotic snakes and tortoises stuffed in his pants.

Transportation Security Administration spokesman Jonathon Allen says the man was stopped after passing through a body scanner at Miami International Airport on Thursday. Security officials spotted the nylon bags filled with seven snakes and three tortoises hidden in the man's pants.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel (http://sunsent.nl/p9xoel) newspaper reports the animals were taken by the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife. The unidentified passenger was arrested.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/odd/news/20110831p2g00m0dm056000c.html

[Initech]

1. So... Does this give new meaning to the phrase "trouser snake"?

:evilgrin:

[TwilightGardener]

2. The jokes, they write themselves...

[MineralMan]

3. Isn't that just like a man to do that?

{/sarcastic tone of voice}
:rofl:

[Bosso 63]

4. Snakes on a plane

Never drink a drink bigger than your head.
Don't pull on Superman's cape.
Don't put reptiles in your pants.

These are simple rules people.
learn them and live them.

[rocktivity]

5. I am getting mutherfukin tired of reading mutherfukin stories

about mutherfukin people putting mutherfukin snakes in their mutherfukin pants!

:mad:
rocktivity

[AsahinaKimi]

6. Thank you Samuel L. Jackson

[Initech]

10. Get these monkey fighting snakes off this monday - friday plane!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4t6zNZ-b0A

[rocktivity]

13. Shut the front door, Initech!

P.S. Fluff you.

:rofl:
rocktivity

[Warren DeMontague]

7. That's NOTHING compared to what I've got in my...

oh, never mind.

[Aerows]

8. You know

You could go just about *anywhere* with this news story. I think there is a moral here: Don't try to fly around with snakes in your pants (as though anyone sane would do this to begin with LOL)

[saras]

9. A truly cynical TSA would have just held him in a very warm waiting room for twelve hours.

Let's see what those snakes are like when they're good and wide awake.

[Historic NY]

11. Is that a snake in your pants or are you just happy to see me?...

I wonder how the enhanced screening went.

[Fuddnik]

12. Good thing they weren't snapping turtles.

A guy could lose a finger or something.