Woman caught at customs with four snakes stuffed down her bra

This is the moment staff got a slippery surprise at a ferry port when they went in to investigate what was hidden inside a woman’s bra.

They noticed a woman trying to rush through Futian Port on the border between mainland China and Hong Kong appearing all flustered.

While she told the officials that she had nothing to declare they sensed something wasn’t quite right.

It turned out that their instincts were correct because as soon as they looked inside the woman’s bra something was found… four endangered ball pythons.

Video footage shows them placed in socks inside the woman’s bra while staff release them onto a table.

While the slithering reptiles are fairly small, they appear pretty ferocious as they stare into the camera.

After the shock discovery, the officials pulled the woman aside for some questioning.

She revealed to them that she was transporting them onto the mainland for a small carrying fee.

Staff had no choice but to take the hissing reptiles away from the woman and an investigation is now being carried out.

Ball pythons are categorised as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List.

They are also a protected species in China where it is illegal to keep them as a pet.

Surprisingly, this isn’t the first time a woman decided to stuff an animal down her bra.

It happened at Miami International Airport last week where a woman was stopped because she had two turtles down there.

Tragically, one of the turtles died in the bra.

The Transportation Security Administration joked about it all and said in a statement: ‘We want you to be able to travel with your pets, and you turtle-ly can, but please travel with them safely.’

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