NH - Slippery eel-smuggling suspect caught, cops say

[wfgodot]

Police capture eel-smuggling suspect in Hampton Falls (wmur.com)

HAMPTON, N.H. —Authorities have arrested a man they believe is involved in an international eel-smuggling operation.
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Police attempted to arrest the man earlier Friday, but he escaped wearing a set of handcuffs on one hand.
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The officer made contact and arrested one suspect, but failed to arrest the second suspect, who began fighting him. The officer pepper-sprayed the second suspect before he ran away into the woods.
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Police tracked the man down to a hotel in Hampton Falls and arrested him there Friday morning.
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State police said eel meat, sold overseas, can be worth $2,000 a pound.

a bit more at the link

 

[Justiceforever]

Police capture eel-smuggling suspect in Hampton Falls (wmur.com)

a bit more at the link

R eel ly?

 

[TrackerSam]

I don't f eel sorry for the perp. LE needs to cast a wider net.

 

[Justiceforever]

Looks like the suspect initially slipped right outta their hands.

 

[Sporky]

Looks like I'm in the wrong business!

 

[fred&edna]

Perfect prison for a guy like this would have been... Eelcatraz

 

[TrackerSam]

There's moray to this storay.

 

[Justiceforever]

Oh Wfgodot, you punny thread starter you!

 

[fred&edna]

Or maybe he just needs treatment for EELcoholism?

 

[Donjeta]

State police said eel meat, sold overseas, can be worth $2,000 a pound.

I wonder what happened to their eel gotten gains.

 

[Justiceforever]

"It's a slippery job, but someone's got to do it."

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/science/wildlife-news/130503/eel-smuggling-suspect-arrested

Futher down in the same article...

"Last month, a Chinese man was hospitalized after he put an eel in his butt
One can only hope that it wasn't one of the same eels that ended up getting sold as eel meat and eaten."

 

[Donjeta]

"Last month, a Chinese man was hospitalized after he put an eel in his butt
One can only hope that it wasn't one of the same eels that ended up getting sold as eel meat and eaten."

I don't know... it smells fishy.

 

[Justiceforever]

In a comment here...

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130503/NEWS03/130509702&template=mobileart

*Howard Titus**said:

"I'll bet they have a hard time wriggling out of this one."

 

[Justiceforever]

curtesy of http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bad-joke-eel

 

[wfgodot]

NO JUSTICE, NO PEAS. (Sorry, just about typed and posted this on another thread, where it did fit as a pun but really wouldn't have been appropriate at all.)

 

[TrackerSam]

curtesy of http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bad-joke-eel

So is smuggling sushi in the tushi.:blushing:

 

[Donjeta]

So is smuggling sushi in the tushi.:blushing:

I think that was more of a fin de siecle phenomenon.

 

[TrackerSam]

As Danny Zuko would say "It's electrifying" .

 

[Justiceforever]

NO JUSTICE, NO PEAS. (Sorry, just about typed and posted this on another thread, where it did fit as a pun but really wouldn't have been appropriate at all.)

If you can think of a better eel pun...let minnow!

 

[TrackerSam]

If you can think of a better eel pun...let minnow!

:floorlaugh: Fishing for compliments. That was a good one.