I’ve been reading a lot lately about the many ingenious (and not so ingenious) ways that people smuggle exotic animals onto airplanes, through Customs, etc. Couple that with my lifelong obsession with the snake situation in Guam, and I’m already twitchy about what might creep into my luggage when I travel.
So as you can imagine, this story made me feel like I was going to shed my skin: “Stowaway [tag]Rattlesnake[/tag] Bites Arlington Man.” Yes, it would appear that the snake actually got into his bag in South Carolina and then the man drove home, but that’s not the point.
A friend and I brought back a cow skull from Florida to Vermont during a Florida Field Ecology course at the University Vermont. How surprised were we when his cat stuck its paw into an eyesocket and pulled it out with a hiss and with a Scorpion clamped on.
Kudos to you for not mentioning the mutha$%#% snakes on a plane. and in a duffle bag.