# You cannot take those 700 Snakes on a Plane **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 25, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-take-those-700-snakes-on-a-plane/405484 "2007-05-25T14:14:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [May 25, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-take-those-700-snakes-on-a-plane/405484/1 "2007-05-25T14:14:20Z")
Real life tries to imitate art: [CNN Story](http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/24/egypt.snakes.ap/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-take-those-700-snakes-on-a-plane/405484/2 "2007-05-25T14:38:05Z")
What I don’t understand is how you could get 700 snakes into one suitcase, no matter how large it was. Wouldn’t they all be trying to escape in every possible direction? ---
**Author:** ![ShiefferSaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@ShiefferSaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShiefferSaw)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-take-those-700-snakes-on-a-plane/405484/3 "2007-05-25T14:42:09Z")
> [@](#): > > The value of the snakes was not immediately known. Was he planning on selling them? ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-take-those-700-snakes-on-a-plane/405484/4 "2007-05-25T14:46:51Z")
[QUOTE=The Article] The Egyptian said he had hoped to sell the snakes in Saudi Arabia. [/QUOTE] Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-take-those-700-snakes-on-a-plane/405484/5 "2007-05-25T15:08:00Z")
:eek: No one would believe the alarms this is setting off in my mind right now. > [@](#): > > Tulba opened his bag to show the snakes to the police and asked the officers, who held a safe distance, not to come close. Damn thoughtful of him, I’d say – as if they needed any prompting! [succumbs to grand mal case of the heebie jeebies] ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-take-those-700-snakes-on-a-plane/405484/6 "2007-05-25T15:24:52Z")
> [@](#): > > What I don’t understand is how you could get 700 snakes into one suitcase, no matter how large it was. Wouldn’t they all be trying to escape in every possible direction? **Zymugy’s Law of Evolving System Dynamics** – Once you have opened a can of worms, the only way to re-can them is to use a bigger can. — Murphy’s Law by Price/Stern/Sloan Maybe they slipped them in, one at a time, through a gated or valved hole? ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-take-those-700-snakes-on-a-plane/405484/7 "2007-05-25T15:39:21Z")
[Indy]Snakes…why did it have to be snakes?[/Indy] ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-take-those-700-snakes-on-a-plane/405484/8 "2007-05-25T15:41:37Z")
First, you ensure that the snakes are hungry. Second, you put a small pile of Purina Snake Chow™ in the middle of the bag. Third, close bag when all the snakes are inside, eating. Presto! ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-take-those-700-snakes-on-a-plane/405484/9 "2007-05-25T16:07:14Z")
Was the word “motherf\*\*\*ing” involved? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-take-those-700-snakes-on-a-plane/405484/10 "2007-05-25T16:14:15Z")
You can [put snakes briefly in the fridge](http://www.phschool.com/science/science_news/articles/leashing_rattlesnake.html) to cool them to sluggishness before you load them into the suitcase. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-take-those-700-snakes-on-a-plane/405484/11 "2007-05-25T18:51:37Z")
Please tell me Samuel L. Jackson was involved in this, even in some small, miniscule way… ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-take-those-700-snakes-on-a-plane/405484/12 "2007-05-25T19:46:10Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] What I don’t understand is how you could get 700 snakes into one suitcase, no matter how large it was. Wouldn’t they all be trying to escape in every possible direction? [/QUOTE] I could see it if they were baby snakes, or at least pretty small snakes in a healthy-sized suitcase. But it does make you wonder. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-take-those-700-snakes-on-a-plane/405484/13 "2007-05-25T20:12:50Z")
You know, when the title/plot of _Snakes on a Plane_ came out, people said it was the dumbest movie premise ever. But not Yahia Rahim Tulba. He checked the movie page and said, “This is a great business model!” And then the cops were all “Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfuckin’ snakes on this motherfuckin’ plane!”