Smuggler Caught with Spiders and Roaches

(Berlin, Germany) Customs work is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to find.

German customs officials inspecting a Swiss car got a nasty shock when they discovered 164 large spiders and 45 boxes of cockroaches -- the arachnids’ food for the journey.

The trap-door spiders, most “as big as a fist”, were found wriggling around in boxes and plastic bags, Markus Ueckert, a spokesman for the customs office in the south-western German city of Loerrach said.

“Of course, the officers didn’t open anything. They knew immediately what was going on,” Ueckert added.

The Swiss driver was hoping to sell the specimens at a fair in Germany but his haul was seized when he failed to produce the proper license.

Heh.