# 247 Snakes (almost) On A Plane

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/247-snakes-almost-on-a-plane/607721>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 29, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/247-snakes-almost-on-a-plane/607721 "2011-12-29T14:25:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/247-snakes-almost-on-a-plane/607721/1 "2011-12-29T14:25:33Z")

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[Story here](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2079763/Snakes-plane-Nearly-250-reptiles-bugs-suitcase-Argentine-airport.html).

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> Surprised airport workers opened the bag of a Czech traveller travelling to Spain to find hundreds of wriggling poisonous snakes and endangered reptiles packed inside.

Life imitating art? No, the movie was not art.

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**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/247-snakes-almost-on-a-plane/607721/2 "2011-12-29T20:27:42Z")

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I love how they labeled the boa as a ‘deadly snake’. I feel sorry for the critters; as always, it’s them that suffers.

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**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/247-snakes-almost-on-a-plane/607721/3 "2011-12-30T03:48:51Z")

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Well, at least they didn’t make it onto the motherfuckin’ plane.