{"id":965269,"date":"2024-07-11T08:53:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T08:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965269"},"modified":"2024-07-11T08:53:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T08:53:23","slug":"china-customs-catch-man-smuggling-over-100-snakes-inside-trousers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/china-customs-catch-man-smuggling-over-100-snakes-inside-trousers\/","title":{"rendered":"China Customs catch man smuggling over 100 snakes inside trousers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was recently caught smuggling 104 live snakes in the pockets of his pants in China, according to customs officials.<\/p>\n<p>China Customs released security camera footage on Tuesday showing the alleged smuggler walking through a passage for travellers with nothing to declare at Futian Port in Shenzhen.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters was not able to independently verify the location or the date the video was filmed.<\/p>\n<p>An accompanying caption on the Weibo account of China Customs said officers intercepted the man and found six canvas bags sealed with adhesive tape inside the pockets of his pants.<\/p>\n<p>Five different species of snakes were identified, of which three were alien to China.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said they were pursuing legal action against the man for violating animal import and biosafety laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five different species of snakes were identified, of which three were alien to China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":965270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1277],"tags":[1097],"class_list":["post-965269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-2","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}