Police Officers Accused of Stealing Snacks

In Robeline, LA the village’s only convenience store, Shop A-Lott, tried to be nice to their police officers by offering them free fountain drinks or coffee at closing time. The store noticed items missing and when they watched the surveillance tapes they saw officers loading plastic bags with dozens of bottled soft drinks and taking many other snacks without paying. The officers were not taken off active duty for the problems they caused.

A Woman Finds A Black Window Spider in her Grapes

An article that says that a woman named Judy Reardon in Andover, Minn bought a four pound box of grapes from Costco and as she washed off the grapes and placed them in plastic bags she noticed the spider.

She and her husband took the spider to University of Minnesota's insect museum and they confirmed that it was a black widow spider based on the red markings on its abdomen. Judy contacted the supplier of the grapes in California and was told that this usually happens once a year with their grapes. Judy returned the grapes to Costco with no interest in suing them. She warns that everyone should check, look over their grapes carefully, and wash them as soon as they bring them home.

The black widow got its name because the females eat the males right after they mate. A black widow bite can cause people severe pain, cramping, and illness, but deaths are rare.

Snakes On a Plane

It is reported in Cairo, Egypt that a man was stopped at the airport just before he tried to board a plane heading to Saudi-Arabia. He had carry-on bags that were filled with live snakes and a few baby crocodiles and chameleons.

Airport security became suspicious of the man when the X-ray machine at the departure gate gave odd readings. Police opened the bags and found a large number of reptiles, including a cobra, trying to escape. The animals were confiscated and given to the Cairo zoo and the man was allowed to board his flight.

Transporting live reptiles out of the country is illegal in Egypt, but the man said he wasn't aware of that and the snakes, crocodiles,and chameleons were needed by a Saudi-Arabia university for scientific experiments.

Back in May another Saudi-Arabian man was caught in the Cairo airport trying to transport 700 live snakes in his luggage. He told the authorities that snakes were often kept by store keepers in glass jars in Saudi-Arabia or used as pets.