Man held with underpants snake

Paris - French police yesterday caught a man trying to get through Paris airport customs with a boa snake hidden in his underpants…

Paris - French police yesterday caught a man trying to get through Paris airport customs with a boa snake hidden in his underpants, an airport spokeswoman said.

The 30-year-old Frenchman, who was trying to smuggle the 16-inch snake into Roissy airport from Colombia, was caught out after a sniffer dog latched on to the reptile's scent through his bulging trousers, she said.

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