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Buenos Aires International Airport in Argentina intercepted what could have been a disastrous (or action packed) airplane incident when they detained a Czech man trying to board a plane with almost 250 poisonous snakes and endangered reptiles in his baggage.
Karel Abelovsky, 51, was en route to Spain when airport officials made him open his baggage in the airport after security spotted the reptiles in the X-ray scanner. Inside the suitcase was almost 250 exotic and endangered snakes and reptiles, packed inside plastic containers, bags and socks. Yes, socks.
Argentine authorities believe Abelovsky was a courier for a criminal organization that smuggles exotic species to Europe.
Experts say that the contents of the case, boa constrictors, poisonous pit vipers and coral snakes, lizards and spiders could have escaped the cloth suitcase and perhaps attacked passengers.
Now what everyone really wants to know, was Samuel L. Jackson booked on the flight?
Read more at the AP.