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#1 Animal rights bozos have made it very difficult to legally import and export many kinds of animals. The obvious result is that animals are the third most smuggled item in the world (behind cash and drugs). There is a huge amount of money involved--collectors pay top dollar for rare species.
So whenever you read about someone getting caught in an airport with snakes in his pants, go smack a PETA member.
Posted by Iblis 2012-12-05 08:56||
2012-12-05 08:56||
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#2 What kind of snake?
Posted by JohnQC 2012-12-05 08:57||
2012-12-05 08:57||
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#3 in a related airplane makes emergency divert story, a 13 day old 787 suffered numerous in flight mechanical issues and had to abort/land in New Orleans. 174 PAX on board. no word yet from the Lazy B as to origins. happened Teusday morning
Posted by USN,Ret. 2012-12-05 09:38||
2012-12-05 09:38||
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#4 Rantburgers. That photo pretty sums up my experience with airlines in the third world. Thanks for that :-)
Posted by Raider 2012-12-05 11:16||
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