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South African environmental inspectors discovered 10 poisonous snakes smuggled in video cassette cases when they searched a suspicious package at a post office, officials said on Monday.

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STONERS
May 14, 2007, 6:46 p.m.
Working on a tip-off, the inspectors seized the package from the Czech Republic and opened the cases to find live albino monocle cobras, Arabian saw-scaled vipers, Namibian spitting cobras and Australian Taipans, reputed to be the most poisonous snake on earth.
"All the snakes confiscated are venomous with no anti-venom available in South Africa," the Gauteng provincial environment department said in a statement.
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BronxBomber
May 14, 2007, 6:56 p.m.
Hmph! Playing with those kind of snakes has a certain finality to it. Might as well play with lit matches while you're soaking wet in kerosene.
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michaeln
May 14, 2007, 7:06 p.m.
I'd love to watch a video of the inspectors opening this package.
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natashas
May 14, 2007, 8:49 p.m.
I would have wet myself, LOL!
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xtaylor0022x
May 14, 2007, 10:11 p.m.
better yet natashas, i would have wet myself AND fainted. sometimes i wont even mow the lawn because im afraid that ill see a gardener snake! lol
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agentX
May 14, 2007, 10:22 p.m.
Okay, if no one is going to say it, then I'm going to say it.
"Enough is enough! I've had it with these *Censored* snakes in this *Censored* box!
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joeeddie
May 15, 2007, 12:11 a.m.
They must have just raised their rates.
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ETproductions
May 15, 2007, 12:58 a.m.
Seems like a dumb way to try to kill someone. Wouldn't most people notice if a package mailed to them kept moving in their hands while they tried to open it?
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DeadHead13
May 15, 2007, 1:22 a.m.
I have had it with these mother****ing snakes in the mother****ing mail!
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adimoga
May 15, 2007, 10:11 a.m.
did the snake say "Mail delivered!" when that man open it :))
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jlrrn
May 15, 2007, 10:25 a.m.
As terrified of even a dead snake as I am -- I wouldn't faint -- I'd die of a sheer heart attack!
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Jillybabe088
May 15, 2007, 11:28 a.m.
gee, what is this world coming too...
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NoElleNo
May 15, 2007, 12:09 p.m.
Wonder who placed that order and where it was going? Could'a got me some real nice belts and boots outta that bag!
HA! Deadhead! WORD!!!
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cleare
May 15, 2007, 12:35 p.m.
i'm wondering how the poor snakes managed inside of "videocassette cases". Did they have air holes or enough room to move?
i shake my head in despair over collectors who can't keep their hands off wild animals, which belong...gee...IN THE WILD!!!
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joeblowe
May 15, 2007, 1:43 p.m.
And here we see yet another argument in favor of using E-MAIL instead of snail mail. You can't send a deadly snake via e-mail. A virus, maybe, but it won't REALLY hurt anyone.
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slate
May 15, 2007, 2:07 p.m.
I had a friend that collected non poisonous snakes. He couldn't understand why we wouldn't come over with our then 2 year old daughter when he announced one got out.
Like I said I ONCE HAD a friend. Snakes aren't meant to be pets.
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lwjr
May 15, 2007, 2:22 p.m.
Would this be the same as "Snakes on a Plane?"
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psilosjordan
May 15, 2007, 2:57 p.m.
Did anyone say whom they were addressed to???
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Kevin101
May 15, 2007, 3:19 p.m.
I knew it. This is a grand design by the Boars and white people to re-introduce apartheid in South Africa. First they import dangerous snakes in order to kill black people, then whow knows what they'll do next. Damn it! These people.!!!
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eugenegerard
May 15, 2007, 11:57 p.m.
I cannot stand the indiscrimetant collectionb of wild animals for peoples' private zoos.