« Dead man woke up at funeral | Home | Doctors Find 6 Sewing Needles in Baby »
Reptiles Smuggled in Garden Gnomes
By admin | June 19, 2007
What’s in a gnome? For surprised Australian customs officials, the answer was snakes and lizards.
During a routine check of international mail on June 10, an officer discovered two snakes and three lizards stuffed inside three of the diminutive garden figurines in a shipment from Britain.
“When the package was opened, the officer spotted several snakes moving about. The package was immediately resealed,” Australian customs said Tuesday in a statement.
A day later, officials at the same facility X-rayed another package from Britain and found five snakes and five lizards stuffed inside pottery figures and other ornaments.