How would you like to have been one of the custom officials opening up a package that had come from Hong Kong that had been marked “personal clothing” only to find about 300 live scorpions and spiders!
The scorpions and spiders had been packed in nets, bottles and transparent plastic boxes and were concealed under clothing and newspapers within the package. Tarantulas were also included in the spider tally.
“The scorpions almost bit the examiner,” Nelson Ebio, a port collector at the Central Mail Exchange Center, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer. It was the first time the post office had encountered such poisonous mail, he said.
The package had arrived from Hong Kong on a Monday, but it wasn’t clear who had sent the package or why although it’s been speculated that the package was intended for someone who collects these types of invertebrates and insects. My guess, having been involved in reptile keeping, is more along the lines that these creatures were being smuggled into the country illegally for the pet trade.
The spiders and scorpions have been handed over to Manila parks and wildlife officials.
The spiders and scorpions were later handed over to the parks and wildlife office.
You have to watch this video. I bet you’ve heard of smart pets - ones that open doors, dogs that get a beer from the fridge for their owner or retrieve the morning paper, but have you ever heard of a Cat that flushes the toilet?
Well this one does!
This poor cat must have a tad of Obsessive Compulsive disorder, because it’s so facinated with watching the water that it repeatedly flushed the toilet.
Watch this:
I bet the couple that owns that cat has a hefty water bill!
Four Mexicans were killed when a dispute between two Tzotzil Indian families over a pothole in the street escalated into a full-blown shootout. I can’t imagine how a dispute over a pothole lead to gunfire but somehow it did.
As the story goes, one of the families closed off the cracked concrete and mud road in the town of Banelos in the poor southern state of Chiapas to fill in a hole left by heavy rain. That sounds like a reasonable excuse for closing off a round. Take the repair into your own hands.
However, the closing of the roadway angered a family with a transport business who needed to get their truck through.
When the first family refused to re-open the road, insults led to blows and finally the two families shot at each other using various caliber guns and a hefty AR-15 rifle. Shootings are not uncommon in Mexico’s little-policed indigenous regions, where many take the law into their own hands.
Something about this story sounds a little fishy to me. Where on earth did these families get all their gun power? Just what kind of transportation business did the second family run? I wonder.
The pothole has since been filled in with rubble to repair the orginal damage.
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