Police at the Mexico City airport, who detained a man with a suspicious bulge under his T-shirt Monday, found 18 small endangered monkeys concealed under his clothing in a girdle.
Roberto Cabrera, 38, traveled to Mexico City aboard a commercial flight Friday from Lima, Peru, and was searched when he began behaving “nervously,” police said in a statement.
Behaving nervously? The guy had 18 monkeys stuffed in his clothes -did none make a sound?
Last year, an American woman was convicted for smuggling a rhesus macaque from Thailand to Spokane, Washington.
Gypsy Lawson, 28, pretended to be pregnant in order to smuggle the monkey into the U.S. She received 60 days in jail.
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I think people should start with one or two monkeys, and work up to 18. But in today’s economy, there’s just so much pressure that many employers don’t want to spend the time to properly train new employees. Unfortunate, really.
The thing that surprises me is that not many PPOs or HMOs will cover monkey trafficking-related zombie viruses. This system stinks!