Put a Sock In It

Police in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, arrested Austrian Johann Zillinger as he was heading for the airport. He was charged with animal trafficking when a search revealed 21 parrots, four parakeets and two snakes hidden in his luggage. “Since some of the parakeets that he had with him were newborns, we assume that some of the eggs had already hatched,” a police spokesman said. Eggs? When they searched him, they found five parakeet eggs in a sock nestled in his underwear. “He put [the eggs] near his testicles so they would be at nest temperature.” (Reuters) ...Just the place for hungry newborns with sharp beaks.