Travel News Round-Up: October 25 - 31
Source: By Elizabeth Haggarty, AOL Travel
Posted: 10/28/09 12:11PM
Filed Under: Travel
Experiences with body odour and overly chatty seat-mates leave many air travellers peering down the aisle in trepidation, wondering who will squash into the seat next to theirs. Now there's another travel companion to fear: the one with snakes taped to his chest. It seems unbelievable that a man with 14 pythons and ten geckos strapped to his body ever made it through airport security scans, but he did. It wasn't until the passenger arrived in Norway and a tarantula was spotted in his luggage that customs officials became suspicious. The animals, with a retail value of $10,000, have been seized and the man arrested. Watch the footage of how he carried his valuable 'pets'.
While on the topic of animals in the air, a man on a flight from Madrid to Dublin has been caught with his pet Chihuahua in his luggage. The animal had been placed in a cage and then packed in the man's suitcase. Customs officials originally thought the strange outline on security scans was a stuffed animal, but were shocked to find a living, breathing pooch. The dog was handed over to the Department of Agriculture and Food and is currently in quarantine.
A stowaway grasshopper has UK farmers up in arms after the 6cm long Poekilocerus pictus survived a flight from India to England. The crop-munching fugitive is known to destroy farmers' fields in Asia, where it is considered an economic pest. However, scientists say that since the hopper is alone it will be unable to reproduce, posing little risk to one of its favourites, the British aubergine.
We all make typos, but unfortunately for some their lapses at work are enshrined on sign posts around the world. Click through the London Telegraph's collection of strange animal street signs for a look at local authorities with a sense of humour or a serious need of a dictionary.
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