MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

“Spiderman” caught red-handed in Rio do Janeiro airport

The real Spiderman

Spiderman exists and he was caught at the Brazilian city of Rio do Janeiro. A British tourist was detained in the city’s international airport when he was discovered trying to carry overseas a thousand live spiders in his luggage, according to the local police.

No name was given by the Brazilian Federal Police that made the arrest at the airport. Apparently the spiders were hidden in air boxes camouflaged at the bottom of the two pieces of luggage he was carrying.

Members from the Brazilian Environment Institute, Ibama, helped the police to collect the spiders which were shipped to a local lab for their specie classification by experts.

According to the airport police “spider man” could be fined up to the equivalent of 2.3 million US dollars for traffic of wild life.