Museum Curator Found With 1,500 Scorpions in Luggage: Report

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A curator for a world-renowned museum was detained by authorities in Turkey on suspicion of smuggling poisonous arachnids out of the country. Lorenzo Prendini is a curator at the Museum of Natural History in New York. Reports say he was caught at an airport in Istanbul with plastic tubes and bags containing about 1,500 dead scorpions, tarantulas and spiders that are endemic to the country. Inside Edition Digital’s Mara Montalbano has more.

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@Narutocoolcat hace 28 días

So if he was declared innocent what was the point of the video
@jillanejames4590 hace 28 días

So if he was cleared because he was legally travelling with dead scorpions, why is this news🤔
@sirchadiusmaximusiii hace 28 días

Scorpion scientist travels with scorpions.
@adamagnus hace 28 días

Sub-zero saw this and shat his pants....😅😅😅
@drivingfailsofsacramento hace 28 días

So he had permits to have the scorpions, but still got detained and put in front of a judge? 🤔
@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep hace 28 días

As we can see Turkish tsa is just as skilled as American TSA hahaha
@bmorg5190 hace 28 días

Then why tf is this a video if it's all good?
@adamagnus hace 28 días

Another "stinging" report from Inside Edition....😎😎
@scalorize7096 hace 28 días

Breaking news: Man follows the law
@asianrainer hace 28 días

inside edition just make it sound that its a big deal, when the person is cleared of any wrong doing
@b21raider27 hace 28 días

He got detained with the proper permits?
@Jay_88_ hace 28 días

I guess you could say this was a sting operation 😂
@jmh6016 hace 28 días

Maybe start with the fact that he wasn't smuggling them.
@KevinFarrell-hc3wn hace 28 días

That's your story? Why do I even bother.
@tyrranicalt-rad6164 hace 28 días

Those Turkish Cops were like "Scorpions ? GET OVER HERE !!! "
@MarcYanruw hace 28 días

Man got caught for DUI. Man was let go after passing the breathalyzer 😂😂
@adamagnus hace 28 días

Going on vacation.... 1) change of clothes ✅️ 2) toothbrush ✅️ 3) thousands of poisonous arachnids ✅️ 😳😳😳
@GildedWarrior331 hace 28 días

See if they were alive this would be how invasive species become issues
@pepposano4200 hace 28 días

Sooo useless reporting I understand.
@TeraCloud99 hace 28 días

This world is such a weird place😭