The man went through the “nothing to declare” line when crossing from Hong Kong into mainland China. A search found his pockets full of writhing, scaly contraband.
Chinese customs agents said July 9 that they intercepted a man with more than 100 live snakes in his pants at Futian Port in Shenzhen. The man, wearing a black jacket and baggy pants and carrying a backpack, said he had “nothing to declare” when he crossed the busy border checkpoint from Hong Kong into the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
A search revealed he was indeed carrying contraband. In fact, 104 scaly pieces of contraband. That’s how many live snakes were in his pants, China Customs officials said.by the agency showed the man walking assertively through the “nothing to declare” line at the Futian crossing, one of the world’s busiest land ports.
He was pulled aside for further inspection — the Customs office didn’t say what aroused suspicion or whether it was random luck — and the search revealed that his pant pockets contained six canvas drawstring bags, sealed with tape. “When opened, each bag was found to contain multiple living snakes, brightly colored and in different shapes and sizes,” according to aThe video showed two officers examining the red, pink and black snakes, which were writhing in plastic bags by the time of their performance for the video.
All five species identified inside — milk, corn, Texas rat, western hognose and gopher snakes — are nonvenomous, endemic to North America and frequently found in the exotic pet trade in China, where they risk becoming an invasive species.The Customs agency did not reveal the man’s nationality or what happened to him next, and the office in Shenzhen could not be reached for comment.— the largest centipede species in the world — and a blue-tongued skink in her pant pockets and hoodie.
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