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> The illegal animal trade is threatening many species, but in the case
> of snakes the smuggler often carries them in the passenger compartment
> of airplanes. People have been known to conceal hundreds of snakes on
> their bodies. It is easy to do because snakes like small dark places to
> hide, so people sew them into the linings of clothes, put them in nylon
> tubes and tape them to their legs and arms, things like that. For every
> one of these guys that gets caught, there are probably dozens more who
> get away with it. You never know what the passenger sitting next to you
> might be carrying...
>
> --
> Waddling Eagle
> World Famous Flight Instructor
>
Oh God! Now there'll be a whole new area of suspicion for the TSA.
OTOH, now that the airlines don't feed the passengers--or hand out just a
couple of crackers to make people really hungry, those snakes could be in
mortal danger...
Peter ;-)
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