Page 54 - Snakes News Today

TSA agents at Miami International Airport found a slithery surprise last Friday after a traveler attempted to sneak a bag of snakes through security.

TSA rescues reptiles tucked in camouflage bag A man was stopped at Miami International Airport transporting snakes in an unusual place — his pants, authorities announced.

David Wall was on a walk with his son Hugo in Anglesey, Wales, when they were stopped in their tracked by a rare and distinctive black adder - and sightings of these creatures are on the rise

Videos uploaded to Instagram from multiple accounts show men in khaki shirts “luring” and picking up or posing next to inland taipans - one of the deadliest snakes in the world

The threatened creatures are a keystone species in north Florida, wildlife experts said.

“That’s one big nope rope.”

A TSA spokesman told The Independent that the man was attempting to board an international flight but ‘basically admitted there were snakes in his pants’ when the security alarms had sounded

A man at Miami International Airport was passing through a checkpoint when officers found a bag in his pants stuffed with snakes.

"It could only happen in the Army," says Russ Wise, of LaPlace.

Forest Service Civil Engineer Rick Nelson says there are more snakes this year because of the rains, more grass, and higher rodent populations.