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A British man arrested at Rio de Janeiro airport for trying to smuggle 900 bird-eating spiders out of Brazil, has been named by police as Lee Ardern.
The 26-year-old, who is thought to run a spider shop in the UK, was arrested after security X-rays detected the spiders in two suitcases. Mr Ardern, who has been released on bail but must stay in Brazil, has 20 days to present his defence and ask for the fine to be cancelled. Brazilian police said he did not have authorisation from the Brazilian Institute for Environment and Renewable Resources and he faces a possible penalty of six months to a year in prison. Carlos Magno, from the institute, said: "He said 600 spiders were of a species which is common in Paraguay but does not live in Brazil. "The other 300 were of a sort which is found as much here as there. The only certainty is that they were not created in captivity."

....This has raised some questions such as:

1, WTF?
2, Was this a UK initiative to get rid of the pigeons around Nelsons Column?
3, Was he intending on going into shops and saying "pssst! i got some spiders that have fallen off the back of a lorry, they are going cheap"
4, How did he get them in when i have trouble packing clothes?
5, WTF?
6, "The other 300 were of a sort which is found as much here as there" where the hell is "here" and "there"? because i want to stay well away from that hemisphere
7, Why not drugs or tobacco or booze like ordinary criminals?
8, How did he get them all into two suitcases?....as i remember Bird-Eating spiders are ruddy massive, hairy, fanged things not known for their love of travel unless it involves eating birds
9, What was the X-Ray operator thinking when it came into view? did he/she scream like a little girl and physically wet themselves?
10, WTF?

....This "arachnid episode" has led only to further questions and dilemmas for me to mull through....damn :(

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Ok this is BS

How long are we going to lock up "criminals" like this and ignore violent offenders

Evrybody has spiders so just decriminalize it

And don't gimme the crap about spiders leading to lobsters

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rofl first ive ever heard of "gateway" arachnids.

I would rather be honestly damned, than hypocritically demoralized.

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i guess everyone has to make a living, but personally if i was in that region anyway, i think i woulda stuck wath drugs

I would rather be honestly damned, than hypocritically demoralized.

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lol funny thread. And I agree, wtf???

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imprisonment for smuggling spiders? come on, it would be fairer to give that guy at most a fine. since he didnt go through proper channels to export his spiders. and besides whats the big deal with spiders. were those endangered species?

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....who cares? the guy tried to smuggle spiders and not heroin or something....he should be locked up for his own safety tongue

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the state the economy is in, instead of a quick $9000 selling spiders, him and his spiders would have been out on the street by a burning ashcan, slapping their arms against the cold, waiting for the sisters to start dishing out free soup

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who counted the spiders??  did they round it up to 900?  mr arden must of thought shit , i know i only packed 879 where did the rest come from??

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they had a contest to guess how many

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> Cannabytes wrote:

> ....who cares? the guy tried to smuggle spiders and not heroin or something....he should be locked up for his own safety tongue



Nope, spiders are definitely worse to export than heroin.  Introducing an invasive species into a new environment, whether by accident or design, is extremely detrimental to the target environment, as it disrupts the balance that established the ecosystem in the first place.  You're looking at a number of environmental impacts from species loss within that environment to the loss of species that have particular niches (an example would be the honeybee, which is key to pollinating plants in their environment).

We could never actually figure out the full effects of introducing an invasive species, since it creates long term ripple effects (new spider may displace an old spider, which was a food for another animal that was a food for another animal, etc...).

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smuggle 5 and try it, i dares ya!?

if there big spiders, you could smuggle the heroin up there arse tongue

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Lol spider mules

Yes spiders eating birds would be eco disaster

But its cool to watch. I mean, worth price of admission cool. Cooler than sea world.

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hehe I can imagine the Brit pidgeons lyke WTF !!!

They spread their nasty wings to eat what appears to be a normal size spider from above....but as they get closer and closer..they realize omfg...Teenage Mutant Ninja Spider ! Then the spiders ambush the pidgeon clubbing it in the back of the ehad, pulling into an alley...and eating it. This all making sure he dont tell his friends.

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They'd know when they saw the latin american spiders wear panama hats

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holdin 8 uzi's??

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