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Actual Snakes on a Plane
It's happened before, both in a movie and in real life, but somehow snakes keep squirming their way onto planes, this time on a Vietnam Airlines flight from Bangkok to Hanoi.
On Thursday, authorities at Hanoi's Noi Boi Airport discovered thousands of non-venomous snakes that had been shipped as cargo in 60 boxes. According to the Associated Press, Trinh Ngoc Thanh, Vietnam Airline's spokesman, said that the boxes had been declared as carrying live fish. Unfortunately for the snakes, who had been packed in ice water, many died en route. Those who had made it alive were transferred to the Wild Animal Rescue center in Hanoi.
This isn't the first time that Vietnam has had a snake shipment problem. Last month authorities found 1,540 pounds of dead snakes on a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok. Besides raising questions about cargo inspection at the Bangkok airport, it also points at an important wildlife issue; Ptyas Mucosus, the scientific name for the snakes, are a protected species, thereby implying illegal trade.
In any event, for those of you traveling through Southeast Asia, it might be a good idea to keep Samuel L. Jackson's number on hand. He did do an impressive job dealing with those on-board snakes in the movie...
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elizabeth langert May 14th 2008 6:00PM
ha ha snakes belong on the ground and not near me for i will kill them and anyone who tries to stop me, i have a terrible fear of anything that crawls on their belly
John P. Aug 24th 2008 5:24PM
Is anyone capable of writing clear, concise, proper English anymore. These postings are pathetic and I can't even figure out what you people are trying to say.
mboz Aug 17th 2009 3:16PM
John P
You forgot your ? mark at the end of your sentence. FYI
Lee Feb 27th 2009 4:32PM
While stationed in Thailand; One day, one of the people cleaning the aircraft told me what I thought he said was , “Snack”. I thought he wanted something to eat. Then he took me up front by left one door, there was a snakes head coming down from over the door. I reached up to grab it’s tail, missed. I dropped the ceiling panels by the windows, after a few he fell down on to the floor. It was a six foot python. I had a speed handle with me that I had been working with, I pulled the snake into a bag, and He had wrapped his tail around the leg of a seat. After I put it in a bag, I took it down stairs and put it in a basket, with a cover on it.
wlljm534 Jan 19th 2008 10:02PM
i am a man in every respect but when it come to snakes mark me of any list ,and i am not by any means trying to be funny but it i happened to be on board of that plane or any other one some one would have had to let me make it clear they would have to stop orby any mean let me off that plane or someone other than me would have got hurt (no joke)
BETTY HERRERA Mar 16th 2008 12:51PM
YES, ME TO THEY WOULDLET ME OFF OR THE PLAN WOULD LAND ONE WAY OR OTHER LOL, I DONT LIKE SNAKES AND I WOULD KILL SOMEONE IF THEY THREW A SNAKE ON ME OR AT ME . IM DEATHLY AFREAD OF THEM . THANK YOU