700 live snakes on an Egyptair plane

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;: __CAIRO, Egypt (AP)__ -- Customs officers at Cairo's airport have detained a man bound for Saudi Arabia who was trying to smuggle 700 live snakes on a plane, airport authorities said.

;:The officers were stunned when a passenger, identified as Yahia Rahim Tulba, told them his carryon bag contained live snakes after he was asked to open it.

;:Tulba opened his bag to show the snakes to the police and asked the officers, who held a safe distance, not to come close. Among the various snakes, hidden in small cloth sacks, were two poisonous cobras, authorities said...

* [Read more|http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/24/egypt.snakes.ap/index.html]
* [The story in Arabic|http://www.moheet.com/asp/cunt_show.asp?lol=1955160]
* [Read about Snakes on a plane the movie|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_Plane]