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He Couldn’t Slither Past Security

ORG XMIT: OSL121 This image made available by Norway's Kristiansand Regional Customs Service, Tuesday Oct 27, 2009, shows how an unidentified 22-year-old Norwegian man attempted to smuggle two dozen snakes and geckos into Norway under his clothes, after travelling on a ferry from Hirtshals, Denmark. Customs agent Helge Breilid said Monday that the man was apprehended in the southern town of Kristiansand with 14 royal pythons and 10 albino leopard geckos under his clothes.(AP Photo/Kristiansand Regional Customs Service, ho)  **EDITORIAL USE ONLY** (The Spokesman-Review)
ORG XMIT: OSL121 This image made available by Norway's Kristiansand Regional Customs Service, Tuesday Oct 27, 2009, shows how an unidentified 22-year-old Norwegian man attempted to smuggle two dozen snakes and geckos into Norway under his clothes, after travelling on a ferry from Hirtshals, Denmark. Customs agent Helge Breilid said Monday that the man was apprehended in the southern town of Kristiansand with 14 royal pythons and 10 albino leopard geckos under his clothes.(AP Photo/Kristiansand Regional Customs Service, ho) **EDITORIAL USE ONLY** (The Spokesman-Review)

This image shows how an unidentified 22-year-old Norwegian man attempted to smuggle two dozen snakes and geckos into Norway under his clothes, after travelling on a ferry from Hirtshals, Denmark. Customs agent Helge Breilid said Monday that the man was apprehended in the southern town of Kristiansand with 14 royal pythons and 10 albino leopard geckos under his clothes.(AP Photo/Kristiansand Regional Customs Service)

Question: Can you think of any circumstance in which you'd allow 14 royal pythons and 10 leopard geckos get that close to your skin?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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