I'm sorry....what?
http://news.yahoo.com/man-tried-247-...165607848.html
Quote:
A Czech national was nabbed in Argentina for trying to board a transatlantic flight with 247 live animals including poisonous snakes and endangered reptiles packed in a bulging suitcase, reports said Monday.
The man identified as Karel Abelovsky, 51, was caught while trying to board a flight for Madrid when shocked baggage X-ray technicians and staff at the Iberia Airlines desk at Ezeiza Airport in greater Buenos Aires noticed "organic substances moving inside," local media reported.
When they opened the bag, they found more than 200 reptiles and mollusks, among them nine species of poisonous snakes including South American pitvipers, packed in clear plastic containers.
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I. Would. DIE. Pitvipers?? As much as I love snakes, there is NO WAY I would keep my cool if they got loose in the airport somehow...and the article says some of them died from oxygen deprivation. I feel so badly for those poor animals. I can pity and be scared at the same time.