A fashionable gentleman wearing 15 live lizards strapped to his chest was arrested by fashion police at LAX as he attempted to enter the country from Australia. US Customs agents said something about "smuggling," and claim the two geckos, eleven skinks, and two monitor lizards were worth a total of $8,500.
Gentleman arrested by fashion police at LA airport for wearing his living lizard suit
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Some people will do anything to make a fashion statement.
Coming IN to LAX, from Australia.
Argh, that TSA really cooks my goose! Couldn't they see that it was just a retro-cool Reptilepunk fashionhack?!
Every time I hear about someone smuggling live animals on a commercial flight, it just boggles my mind. How?! How does someone sit on a plane for 20 hours covered in lizards without anyone noticing?
Coming into Los-Angel-eees,
Bringing in a couple of...
Nah, it doesn't rhyme.
So wait, you mean he wasn't wearing some crazy outfit that was adorned with live lizards?
Now I'm kind of disappointed. I had images of a waif-ish fashion model walking down the terminal with writhing lizards attached to his grey plaid fashionable jacket. Sure he'd get stared at, but he was so much better than the rabble in this terminal, he was making a fashion statement. Casually shooting glances to the left and to the right, telling those around him with just a cold icy stare, "I matter more than you heathen, worship me." Even stopping to feed the lizards live crickets, he did it with the grace and elegance of royalty.
a live rattlesnake for a neck tie would be something.
> a live rattlesnake for a neck tie would be something.
Dont be silly, record execs would never allow you to use them as a neck tie.
This is meant to be tongue-in-cheek, right?
Because either this is a sarcastic reimagining of the events (taken from the point of view of the dumb criminal who attempted to explain the lizards hidden under his shirt), or somebody didn't read the original article. I'm really hoping it's the former.
Either way, I'd feel better with a /sarcasm tag at the end, because on it's face, this looks like a FOX-style misinterpretation of the facts.