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Illegal 'zoo' in 3 suitcases gets man arrested

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41512490/ns ... vironment/

The attempt to smuggle more than 200 live animals — snakes, tortoises, squirrels, spiders, lizards and even a parrot — inside three suitcases was bold, but also dumb.

Smuggled plougshare tortoise

TRAFFIC

Smuggled parrot

Here's the list of what was found:

88 Indian Star tortoises

34 ball pythons

33 elongated tortoises

22 common squirrels

19 bearded dragons

18 baboon spiders

7 radiated tortoises

6 Argentine horned frogs

6 mata mata turtles

4 spiny tailed lizards

4 striped narrow-headed turtles

3 aldabra tortoises

2 boa constrictors

2 Sudan plated lizards

2 corn snakes

2 king snakes

1 ploughshare tortoise (world's rarest turtle)

1 pig-nosed turtle

1 African gray parrot

1 milk snake

1 hog nosed snake

The suspect "admitted to authorities that he had purchased the animals from Chatuchak Market," TRAFFIC said, referring to an outdoor trading area in Bangkok where rare and endangered species are bought and sold

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"Some retailers have openly acknowledged to TRAFFIC staff that many of the species they sell have been illegally obtained and even offer advice on how to smuggle them out of the country,"

"One really has to question how Chatuchak Market, which is located just down the street from both Wildlife Protection and Nature Crime Police Offices, can continue these illegal mass sales,"

must be a lot of bribery of officials going on

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"One really has to question how Chatuchak Market, which is located just down the street from both Wildlife Protection and Nature Crime Police Offices, can continue these illegal mass sales,"

must be a lot of bribery of officials going on

Its Thailand man bribery is its own institution over there :dunno: .

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