If you haven’t seen Snakes on a Plane, the 2006 thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson, you are at least aware that it exists. But what you probably don’t think about as you walk past it in the movie aisle and make your dammed snarky comments, is that the possibility of snakes on planes, trains, and even ferries is very real indeed. At least in Norway.

Case in point: This week a man was arrested in Norway trying to smuggle two dozen snakes and geckos into the country by taping them to his body. According to the Scotsman, customs agents said the Norwegian citizen, 22, was arrested in Kristiansand after getting off a ferry from Denmark. He had fourteen royal pythons and ten albino leopard geckos hidden under his clothes.

The pythons, which are non-venomous but still all kinds of creepy, were stuffed in stockings duct-taped to the smuggler’s belly. The geckos, none of which were selling insurance (wacka wacka) were in boxes taped to his thighs.

So how’d he get busted?

The Scotsman reports that Norwegian customs officials searched him on Sunday after finding a tarantula in one of his bags.

[Via: Scotsman]