# Snakes on a Plane! (Really!)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-really/381489>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 22, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-really/381489 "2006-11-22T23:39:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-really/381489/1 "2006-11-22T23:39:55Z")

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Off the news wire - somebody was attempting to smuggle snakes to Bangkok:

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> Custom and airport officials at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila seized at least 134 reptiles stuffed into plastic bottles and sacks in the baggage of a Filipino passenger about to board a flight to Bangkok. Confiscated were cobras, water skinks, pit vipers, iguanas and monitor lizards.

[Picture](http://sfgate.com/n/pictures/2006/11/21/reptiles11.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-really/381489/2 "2006-11-23T00:28:13Z")

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Were the lizards there to monitor the rest of the group?  
😃

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-really/381489/3 "2006-11-23T05:58:21Z")

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Somewhere, Samuel L. Jackson is smiling.

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**Author:** ![not\_austin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c68b51/32.png) [@not\_austin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_austin)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snakes-on-a-plane-really/381489/4 "2006-11-23T14:55:47Z")

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Now, is it just me or is there something slightly wrong with the concept of smuggling something in a see-through container? :smack:

wonders if this is some strange type of double bluff… “They won’t believe what they are seeing…”