tags: illegal animal trade, smuggling, reptiles, airplane
Like, who would have thought??
I ran across a story today that is absolutely .. er .. astonishing. A 22-year-old um, er, primate from Saudi Arabia was caught at an airport smuggling reptiles out of Egypt in his carry-on luggage .. and when caught, he claimed the luckless animals were intended for "scientific research".
This neanderthal was discovered carrying hundreds of snakes, chameleons and baby crocodiles in his carry-on luggage when he attempted to board a Saudi-bound flight at an Egyptian airport. The smuggler was caught after police become suspicious when X-ray machines at the departure gate yielded peculiar readings. After his bag was searched, the smuggler claimed that he had no freaking clue that transporting live reptiles was illegal in Egypt.
LIAR.
Worse, he claimed that the animals were needed for scientific research.
LIAR.
Scientific research?? I Do Not Think So. Try another story, Mr. scum-sucking Liar.
It is corrupt self-serving profiteers such as this common thief who not only kill hundreds and even thousands of innocent animals, and who destroy entire species in their quest for the gawd-almighty dollar, but they also give science a bad name with their blatant lies because any respectable and reputable scientist who does research with animals knows the proper procedures for moving animals from one location to another, whether those animals are dead or alive. And none of those procedures includes cramming many hundreds of live animals into carry-on luggage and trying to sneak them onto an airplane. Further -- and perhaps shocking news to assholes such as this guy -- there are laws that govern how live animals should be moved, laws that were specifically written for those numerous sub-humans out there that lack any detectible human decency, which this guy obviously doesn't have, otherwise he would never have crammed approximately 250 baby crocodiles, as well as a live cobra, into his carry-on baggage.
"This is the largest smuggling attempt of Nile crocodiles in the whole of aviation history," observed airport veterinarian Yusef Mamduh.
The helpless animals were confiscated and were fortunately turned over to the Cairo Zoo instead of being destroyed, as many other countries typically do when dealing with smuggled animals.
Unfortunately, the smuggler was allowed to return to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, instead of being arrested by authorities -- who are obviously corrupt -- and prosecuted as he should have been. I mean, if smugglers such as this are not prosecuted, then why bother making any laws at all?
Ohhh, maybe politics .. ?
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Anyone wanting to transport their species knows how to keep it alive, and suitcases are not normally a part of the equipment. I always find the water bottle leaks, spoiling the rare second dynasty papyrus.
Bob
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"I'm tired of these mutherF&%#@n crocs on this mutherF&%#@n plane"
It would have been interesting if he had got to Saudi and they had found them there, unless he is one of the princes with lotsa wasta.
Saudi security aren't known for their kindness to those breaking Saudi import laws, yes importing live animals into Saudi as hand luggage is illegal and some of the top Saudi princes are active in preserving wildlife.
So even if it wasn't illegal to export them from Egypt he would have known that it was illegal to import them into Saudi.
The lying fool is what you would xpect to come out of a camel's behind.
As for why he wasn't prosecuted; yes politics and money. Saudi Arabia is the big honcho in the region.
Do you have a reference to where you found this; I'ld like to send it to some of the Gulf newspapers.
The Emirs of Dubai & Qatar are very keen on preserving wildlife so even if not posted in Arab News (main Saudi rag) the local Qatari & Emirati papers might run with it. Be even better if we knew his name, especially if he is a minor prince.
i've never worked with lab animals of any kind, but i'd expect them to be mostly captive-bred so as to better control their lineages and genotypes, am i right...?
Maybe they should have fed him to his victims? ;-)