And Today's Dumbass Award Goes To....
Border Agents Find Alligator in Suitcase:
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) - Agents with the U.S. Border Patrol in Yuma found an alligator stashed in the suitcase of a California man who was on his way to Phoenix. The agents found the 4-foot, 4-year-old cayman alligator during a routine checkpoint search on Interstate 8 on Thursday night, agency spokesman Lloyd Easterling said.
Easterling said a drug-sniffing dog became alert near the man's car. Inside, agents found 13 grams of marijuana. Then agents asked the man, whose name was not released, if he had anything else inside the car they should know about.
"The guy says, 'There's an alligator in there,'" Easterling said. "He says, 'He's in the suitcase there.' And when (the agent) opened the suitcase, sure enough, there was a cayman in there."
Rebecca Wright, law enforcement program manager for the Arizona Game and Fish Department in Yuma, took the feisty reptile back to her office to await shipment to a Phoenix animal refuge.