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Subscribe to RSSA 51-year-old man faces up to 10 years in prison after he was caught in Argentina earlier this month with 247 snakes and other live animals in his suitcase, according to the Agence France-Presse.
Karel Abelovsky, a Czech national, was trying to board a Madrid-bound flight at Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires on December 7 when airport personnel discovered "organic substances moving inside," according to the AFP report.
Abelovsky's suitcase reportedly contained nine species of poisonous snakes.
Two animals in the bag were found dead. Had Abelovsky successfully boarded his flight, many more animals would likely have died due to lack of oxygen in the jet's cargo hold, AFP reported.
Abelovsky was charged with attempted smuggling. An exotic species smuggling ring is reportedly thought to be behind the uncovered attempt.
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Stick the bas*%&#!! in a box with all of the remaining poisonous snakes and let him die a slow painful death from multiple bites. Wildlife smugglers are some of the lowest scum of the earth.
why do I have images of something like "the blob"?
poor animals they were taken out of the environment. It wasn't meant to be. They have a home and we should let it be.
Snakes on a plane? O-o
Hopefully he will get all 10 years. Finally justice for animals who were victims of abuse!
Sicko.
Get those motherf****ing snakes off my motherf****ing plane!
I once dated a gal who travelled with thousands of animals in her pants. Although she looked caucasian, I think she must have been from Laos. At least that's what I overheard the doctor say.
Were they crabs?
well, no. Obviously ten piggies, two calves, and that damn fish no one can find.
Laos.
The doctor could tell she was from Laos by the animals in her pants? Cool. I wonder if he could tell me the origins of my ex fiance` by the number of snakes that have been in her pants the past 6 months...
I think that would require an experienced crew of spelunkers.....lunkers.....unkers...kers...ers.
LOUSE Balsaki. Louse.
Nice!! I hope those spelunkers are hungry. Thats a lot of roast beef. No need to bring the cheese or bread. I think it comes with it.
I once had a snake his name was jake i found him in the lake for goodness sake.
Good thing you didn't name it Jack, or that really would have messed up your poem.
I once had a snake named Jack. He lived out in front of a crack. When he was down, I'd bend him around, and let him have a look at me back!
Since they were mostly snakes, I'm sure that the Christians are happy some are dead. Aren't snakes evil to them? Wasn't a snake responsible for destroying Utopia and the creation of Adam & Eve's temptation/children?
Snakes are not evil to Christians. They are still God's creatures. Snakes are the way they are because He punished that particualr serpent.
"Snakes are the way they are because He punished that particular serpent."....ugh
Sounds like your god though, really: punishing a creature he created for the sins of another. He likes doing that: punishing the whole human race for the actions of two people, whom he created and whome he allowed to be tempted.....
All makes perfect sense....
Oh common, why goad Christians over a completely unrelated article? I consider myself a militant atheist but that only applies when it makes sense (in response to when they are being harmful), not to irritate random religious folks in a unrelated article.
Actually it's kinda funny that you mention it though because my mom was a seriously devout protestant and thought snakes were evil (though she didn't approve of them being killed for no reason) because that was the form Satan took. Maybe she just wanted an extra reason to not let us have one. Regardless though, most Christians don't think of snakes as evil themselves (depending on what part of the bible you look at and the different origins if Satan), just that Satan took a snakes form so it's more an accusation then a condemnation of the whole group.
I hate snakes! YUCK!
Importing of animals to a new area does present problems. The everglades are now a thriving habitat for exotic snakes that do not belong there. The drainages of the SW US is full of non native species using a whole bunch of water. A grown Tamarisk can obsorb 300 gal of water a day. The list can go on endlessly of species introduced that have no natural control. Humans need to think of the long term effect of turning loose a non-native species animal or plant.
Unfortunately, these people don't think.....or they would never have acquired them in the first place !
I din't like spiders & snake and that aint what it takes to love me oh yea
Snakes are so disgusting.
Disgusting?
Snakes were here on planet Earth long before Humans were.
The big difference is most snakes won't even bother to bother you.
Humans on the other hand can't help but screw nature for their own greed.
No they're not. They're quite beautiful and intrigueing if you take the time to understand them more.
Snakes are awesome. Mine is such a sweetie though he's 4 foot now and needs a bigger tank (He also eats rats now and I don't particularly like to see them get hurt) so I'm in the process (talking to a woman for a few weeks now and she is setting up a sweet 55gal tank) of finding him a home that can give him the setup he deserves.
Anyway, I don't think they make particularly good pets since they don't really care about you or know you exist but they are totally beautiful and important creatures and should be respected. I'm glad this smuggler was caught - people who wild-catch these guys and transport them in terrible conditions are just horrible - if you must get a reptile - get it from a responsible breeder or adopt from a rescue!
stick the sob in a glass cage with
OK the story made me laugh, and everyones comments were even funnier! Thanks for the smiles. I know I would sh*t my pants if there were that many snakes in a case above my head! Not afraid of them, but to be poisonous is a different story. At the moment I like my life and don't want a slime smuggler making it end sooner than I want it to!
stick the sob in a glass cage with 27 posionous snakes then after the snakes have had their fun remove them, leave the creep in the glass enclosure and slowly deplete his air supply
Damn Frances! Did somebody "touch your stuff" again?
Frances, I think you're right on!
put him in a cell with a male chimp.
Why would Christians be happy some of the snakes were dead? What a stupid comment. That idiot smuggler should be prosecuted.
I figure christians use every opportunity to say things, good or bad, are gods will or praise of what ever they feel like saying. Whats wrong with me doing the same? Why is that stupid Sue? A girl walks into a spinning propeller and her healing is a miracle from god. Why didn't the same people say that she walked into it cause god made her do it?
I clicked it because it animals not reptiles.
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I'm trying to figure out how he managed to get 200+ snakes in a suitcase without being bitten.
ya
He got the snakes to divide off into two sides. One side wanted to get into the suitcase on their own terms, and pay for their own flight. The other snakes thought everyone should get a voucher to ride along. Once he got them bickering they could not function as nature intended them. Biting, breeding, eating, all became secondary to their hatred for each other. By the time they realized they were all in it together, it was too late! Some had even committed suicide inside the case. Many turned to drinking. But in the end; they were all just snakes. THE END.
Wait a minute - no oxygen in the cargo hold? Whose idea was that? The hold is pressurized like the passenger cabin - or else the pressure differential would collapse the floor of the cabin. Also, was the idiot who wrote that under the impression that the dogs and cats in the cargo hold just hold their breaths for the duration of a seven or eight hour flight?
Geezz man didn't you know that all animals shipped have to go to breathing classes so they can hold their breath for the duration of the flight. Then again maybe the writer of this article is clueless to what he is writing about - care to bet which statement is true.
It's called a "Lepaws" class.
I would like to know what "other animals" were in the bag with the snakes?!
Jake liked cake and corn flakes and steak not to mention vanilla milk shake.
Jack had a fondness for trout. He would rise each time one would come out.
247 snakes, I did not think you could get that many members of congress all togther at one time in December much less fit in a suitcase.
no reference to Obama being one of the snakes? you teatards are slipping. don,t miss this opportunity to
display your bigotry!
Mike how the heck did you slither out of the suitcase ?
flow how did you slither your tongue so far up my ass? we know your arse good!
Whoa. Whoa.Girls. Girls. Get a room!
there's no more room Flow's tongue too big!
No mike that's your head stuck up there.