Bill Lamar arrested for smuggling

[BUSHSNAKE]

I was shocked to read this on T.R.R. Bill Lamar was arrested for smuggling snakes from Peru...im still shocked. Anyone else as shocked as I am??

[RedSidedSPR]

Not me.

Who the hell is Bill Lamar?

[guidofatherof5]

A Texas Herpetologist Was Arrested for Smuggling Peruvian Snakes onto a DFW-Bound Plane - Dallas - News - Unfair Park (http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/06/renowned_herpetologist_bill_la.php)

[infernalis]

I was shocked to read this on T.R.R. Bill Lamar was arrested for smuggling snakes from Peru...im still shocked. Anyone else as shocked as I am??

Not shocked at all.

If it was myself, Larry, Curly or Moe, I would expect the same when caught.

[Selkielass]

No.
Big and small, animal people will find ways to get around unfair or inconvenient import and export laws.
There's one story I've heard about a honeybee breeder bringing home a new strain of bees by carrying a queen in an empty chapstick tube or candy box (tic-tacs). Weather this is a good thing (new genes, disease resistance.)I or a bad one (bringing in disease, parasites or invasive species.) Depends on your p.o.v.

[Scott F]

I went to the amazon with Bill and Louis Porras many years ago. He seemed like an upstanding guy then, extremely knowledgeable on the native herpetofauna too.

Scott

[ConcinusMan]

No.
Big and small, animal people will find ways to get around unfair or inconvenient import and export laws.
There's one story I've heard about a honeybee breeder bringing home a new strain of bees by carrying a queen in an empty chapstick tube or candy box (tic-tacs).

Well, my mother's oldest brother did something similar when he brought bees from CA to OK about 25yrs ago but he didn't try to hide it. He had the usual wooden expandable hives you see in agriculture and maintained these hives since he was a teenager in CA's central valley. When he moved back to "roots" (Oklahoma) the only means of transport he had was a 70's era hatchback like a pinto or similar model so the bees, queen and all went in the car with him. When the dept. of agriculture check point said he had to ditch the bees he stepped out of the car and welcomed them to just take the bees. For some reason they lost interest and let him pass. He drove from Bakersfield, CA to beyond Cement, OK with the occupants of a bee hive in the cabin of his car.