German claims 49 lizards were for lunch
A German man stopped at Customs with 49 live exotic lizards in his
bag claimed they were destined for the cooking pot and even offered to
bite one's head off to prove it, officials said Wednesday.
Customs officials halted the 28-year-old at Munich airport on his way
back from Oman and were staggered to find in his luggage a menagerie
including 31 spiny-tailed lizards and 18 other reptiles, including
geckos and wall lizards. The man had gone through the green channel at
customs, believing his cargo to be "foodstuffs" rather than live
animals, he explained.
"The traveller even wanted to bite the head off one of the
spiny-tailed lizards in front of the customs official," said Thomas
Meister, a spokesman for German customs. AFP
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