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1,000 spiders found in Brit's suitcase
News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:06 PM EST
Article Source: The Sun Newspaper Onlineadvertisement
A BRIT faces a fine of more than £1million after trying to smuggle 1,000 SPIDERS on a plane.
Lee Ardern, 26, was trying to take his haul - including the lethal Brazilian Wandering Spider - into the cabin.
He was arrested as he tried to pass through customs in Rio de Janeiro to board a flight to Heathrow.
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{"commentId":10692641,"authorDomain":"blackcat8838"}
I'm imagining the look of horror on the person who opened the bag, LOL!!
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- 11 votes
#1 - Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:56 PM EST{"commentId":10694804,"authorDomain":"shock-treatment65"}
YIKES! 1000 spiders?! Yeesh, while I am not afraid of the little eight-legged creatures, you couldn't pay me enough to smuggle even ONE in my luggage!
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- 7 votes
{"commentId":10695101,"authorDomain":"USA4Him"}
It reminds me of Snakes on a Plane, just as horrifying!
The scary part is that the crazy, selfish man had poisonous spiders!!
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":10697924,"authorDomain":"eric-albert"}
Bizarre, it is amazing what people will do to make money.....risk everyone else.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":10701684,"authorDomain":"eric24"}
If I had found that. Two words. Anxiety attack.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":10692822,"authorDomain":"blayde"}
This is so Alfred Hitchcock, a suitcase full of spiders, 1000 spiders counted and no motive other than an innocent pet shop. I think there is more to the story but if there is not, I have an idea for a book.
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- 6 votes
#2 - Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:15 PM EST{"commentId":10692876,"authorDomain":"alwaypwns"}
Just when the airport security members thought they had seen it all...
The only thing which could possibly make this more hillarious would be if it turned out this was an attempt to hijack a plane.
"LET ME INTO THE CABIN OR THE SUITCASE COMES OPEN!"
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- 5 votes
#3 - Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:20 PM EST{"commentId":10692946,"authorDomain":"alwaypwns"}
Upon converting the currency... That would have been quite the profit he would have made if they had not caught him. $5000 spent to purchase all 1000, and he was going to sell them for a total of approximately $50000. A profit of $45000... No small chunk of change.
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":10693468,"authorDomain":"schmittyj"}
While I'm not arachnophobic, the prospect of 1 thousand friggin' spiders, in a confined space would be a little creepy...
"LET ME INTO THE CABIN OR THE SUITCASE COMES OPEN!"
I'd just ask him to which destination he wanted me to land the plane at... lol
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- 7 votes
{"commentId":10694167,"authorDomain":"2scentsworth"}
*stands up, waves to everyone* Hi! My name is 2scentsworth, and I'm an arachnophobic! :)
Eeeewwww! I'll make sure to take some bug spray with me next time I fly!
I left my car at the airport once for a week and when I got back, a jillion little spiders came crawling out of the air conditioning. You can bet I stopped the car in heartbeat and started swatting like crazy! I had the heebie-jeebies all the way home and then set off a bug bomb in the car! :D
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- 10 votes
{"commentId":10701824,"authorDomain":"djd"}
I studied spiders last summer and took loads of photos in the garden - big brown araneus diadematus were beautiful when blown up in macro mode. Even so, 1,000!!! Some of them poisonous!!! Yikes!!!!
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":10709200,"authorDomain":"Missy2"}
Now, that's a story that really has legs.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":10693001,"authorDomain":"dboddie"}
Sounds like the start of a Samuel L. Jackson movie...
"I'm tired of these *MF* spiders on this *MF* plane!"
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- 11 votes
#4 - Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:33 PM EST{"commentId":10693102,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
Considering my two worst fears are spiders and being in a plane, I think I will go faint now.
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- 18 votes
#5 - Sun Nov 15, 2009 6:43 PM EST{"commentId":10693327,"authorDomain":"hsquared"}
"Never mind snakes on a plane - this would have been 1,000 tarantulas on a plane."
Oh what a tangled web we weave. When we first practice to deceive. - Sir Walter Scott
Imagine.... a very long flight, taking a long nap and then having an itching sensation wake you up to all that. Screw that fasten seat belt sign!!!! lol - H2
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- 7 votes
#6 - Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:05 PM EST{"commentId":10693562,"authorDomain":"Husker88Fan"}
This is just creepy! My greatest fears, other than of height, are spiders and snakes. So, being in the sky with those spiders would have been the end of me! It also makes one think of what they DON'T catch before it reaches the cabins. Yet another reason to stay home .. or drive to my destination. LOL
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- 5 votes
#7 - Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:31 PM EST{"commentId":10693873,"authorDomain":"kalashnicovdude"}
Put yer boots on and git ta stompin!
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- 6 votes
#8 - Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:03 PM EST{"commentId":10694246,"authorDomain":"sgsteitler"}
OMG, I'd kill him myself! Smooth move with that wandering spider.
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- 4 votes
#9 - Sun Nov 15, 2009 8:44 PM EST{"commentId":10695822,"authorDomain":"wayndor"}
I am not a spider lover. I have a healthy respect for the 8 legged little buggers, however, those cute little jumping spiders, are just so humorous. I will put my finger toward one, and they stand their ground, waving their little palps at the invading, intruder, ready to fight. Fiesty little things. A suitcase of them, wouldn't be so bad. Brown recluse, on the other hand.......
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- 6 votes
#10 - Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:43 PM EST{"commentId":10699169,"authorDomain":"sgsteitler"}
The eyes on those jumping spiders freak out my whole world. I was actually bit by a brown recluse, but it was a mostly dry bite, so I just got a blister and some swelling. Actual bite not really painful. They're finding the long term necrotic effects can be prevented with anti-histamines, if done shortly after the bite.
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":10696138,"authorDomain":"JoulesBeef"}
I think he was probably going into the tapestry business personally, i wouldnt mind some golden boxers/
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- 2 votes
#11 - Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:30 AM EST{"commentId":10696468,"authorDomain":"stinkweepete"}
Brit’s 1,000 spiders in a suitcase
If he would have just stuck them up his...
A little itchy, but he may have gotten away with it.
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- 7 votes
#12 - Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:26 AM EST{"commentId":10696887,"authorDomain":"martstub"}
too bad he didnt try to smuggle them in his pants.
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- 2 votes
#13 - Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:31 AM EST{"commentId":10698237,"authorDomain":"kshark"}
Now all we need is Little Miss Muffet, and a WaterSpout and we are set.
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- 4 votes
#14 - Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:57 AM EST{"commentId":10700137,"authorDomain":"reddirthippy"}
Oh what a tangled web we weave.
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- 3 votes
#15 - Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:03 AM EST{"commentId":10701408,"authorDomain":"tishamauro"}
Tee hee. :)
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- 3 votes
#16 - Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:03 PM EST{"commentId":10702536,"authorDomain":"LAUHAL63"}
*shivers*
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- 3 votes
#17 - Mon Nov 16, 2009 12:58 PM EST{"commentId":10702971,"authorDomain":"joe-lees"}
this person must be a complet nutter with those spiders they coud of got loose and bitten peaple and took there lives what they shoud do with him lock him in a room and loose the spiders in with him blinken idiot
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- 1 vote
#18 - Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:18 PM EST{"commentId":10703474,"authorDomain":"jibade7"}
Just what we need, exotic species of spiders wandering around in the U.S. just like we have snakes and frogs - taking over the environment and destroying our our native species.
How about if you let your Brazilian Wandering Spider live in your pants and leave the rest of us out your stupid hobby.
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- 3 votes
#19 - Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:40 PM EST{"commentId":10709252,"authorDomain":"Missy2"}
I wonder who had the job of putting all 1,000 of those little guys into those boxes....
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- 3 votes
#20 - Mon Nov 16, 2009 5:52 PM EST{"commentId":10727413,"authorDomain":"megidoloan"}
Man, I like spiders - I think they're cute - but a thousand of them would probably have even me running for the hills! That's 8,000 legs!
I wonder who got the lucky job of counting them.
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- 2 votes
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