Postmen Find Poison Snakes In Express Mail

Postmen Find Poison Snakes Express Mail - Sciences, Education, Art, Writing, UFO - Posted: 30th Apr, 2007 - 6:37pm

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Also scorpions, iguanas, tortoises and lizards
30th Apr, 2007 - 6:37pm / Post ID: #

Postmen Find Poison Snakes In Express Mail

This is unbelievable. Can't they see that they will end up being discovered? Why do they bother to put these poor animals in boxes?

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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Postal workers in a Brazilian border town knew there was something suspicious about the shipments from Argentina and were stunned to find scorpions and poisonous snakes in the express mail.

The contraband animals, which also included iguanas, tortoises and lizards, were discovered when the workers had the boxes X-rayed.

A spokesman for the federal police in Foz do Iguacu, the town on the border with Argentina and Paraguay where the incident occurred, said animals shipped into the country often end up in Europe "where they charge three, four, five times as much."

Television stations broadcast images of brightly colored tropical snakes coiled and stuffed into plastic containers, the kind typically used for take-away orders at the deli counter.

The contraband animals had crossed the border from Argentina and were being express-mailed to Brazilian cities, police officer Emerson Rodrigues told TV Globo.

Animals are trafficked in from several countries and often cross into Brazil from Argentina or Paraguay in the tri-border region near Foz do Iguacu, authorities said.

"Traffic also goes the other way, which is to say the animals come from Brazil and go to other countries, including to Europe," Rodrigues told Globo.

Police suspected the express mail case was linked to an international trafficking ring and were using the addresses on the boxes as leads...


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