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Live snakes sent back from HK

Hong Kong customs officials have returned more than 2,000 live cobras and rat snakes found in a shipment sent from Thailand.

        Handlers put a rate snake into a sack at Suvarnabhumi airport on Thursday. Photo by Surapol Promsaka Na Sakolnakorn.

Hong Kong customs officials found more than 2,000 live cobras inside 203 crates falsely labelled as fruit which had been sent as air freight from Thailand. After discovering the snakes, customs officials sent them back to Suvarnabhumi airport.

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  • frogmarch

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    Discussion 1 : 08 Feb 2013 at 20.311

    oh..hold it please. green people. take easy. peace on earth. this is a illegitimate transaction. probably the Thai shipper screwed-up the bill of lading for tax reasons. from pictures it seems to me that these are tawun snakes ain't cobra and bred like regular poultry for Cantonese restaurants who serve stir-fried snake meat as medicament for diabetes patients, snake poison mixed with vodka cocktail as medicament for mouth ulcer and snake blood mixed with whisky cocktail as medicament for skin rash.

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