Say what you want to about airport security, they’re occasionally really good at their job. For example, in Mexico City’s incredibly busy international airport, Roberto Cabrera was noticed looking a bit… lumpy. So he was pulled from the line and given a closer inspection, where it was discovered that he was wearing a girdle. Inside that girdle were 18 endangered monkeys he was trying to smuggle into North America, secreted into pouches. The monkeys were six-inch-long titi monkeys, an endangered monkey found only in South America.
Unfortunately for the monkeys, two of them had already died by the time they were discovered; however, it seems as though they weren’t dead for lack of care on the part of Cabrera. He moved the monkeys from his suitcase to his girdle in an attempt to spare them the high doses of radiation that would accompany a trip through the x-ray machine. He was arrested on charges of smuggling endangered animals.
At least he didn’t have his titis stuffed into a big bra. That would be too much comedy for the Internet to handle.
Image: Red Titi Monkeys
Tags: animal smuggling, unusual animal smuggling, smuggling 18 monkeys in a girdle, smuggling monkeys in a girdle, Roberto Cabrera, titi monkeys, Lima, Peru, Mexico City, Mexico
