Creepy cargo: Philippines seizes 757 tarantulas from Poland
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April 4, 2019
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine customs officials were astonished when they opened nicely gift-wrapped boxes of cookies and oatmeal flown in all the way from Poland and found a hair-raising contraband: hundreds of live tarantulas.
Bureau of Customs personnel seized the 757 tarantulas at a mail exchange center near Manila's international airport Monday and later arrested a Filipino man who tried to claim the long-legged and venomous spiders, which were declared as "collection items."
Many of the baby tarantulas were concealed in small plastic vials punctured with holes for air while bigge...
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