Arkansas lawyer charged with mailing deadly snake

An Arkansas lawyer and his son have been charged with using the US Postal Service to send a man "nonmailable matter" in the form of a deadly poisonous copperhead snake, federal prosecutors have said.

Lawyer Bob Sam Castleman and his son Robert Jerrod Castleman were charged last week on suspicion of mailing the snake to a fellow resident of Pocahontas, a small town 225 kilometres north-east of Little Rock, "with the intent to kill or injure" the addressee, the prosecutors said.

The pair face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

The one metre long copperhead survived its trip through the postal system and arrived very much alive in September 2002 at the home of Albert Staton, who was considered the target of the attack, according to court documents.

Mr Staton's wife opened the package containing the snake and called police, who arrived and killed the creature.

The snake will likely be used as evidence in a trial.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s898047.htm

haha! i like it.... what an original idea!

ya know he could claim insanity if he put a return address..

or stupidity

howd they know it was him anyway

sif kill the poor snake what did it do nothing :( :(

yeah poor fricken snake :cry:

But apparently you are allowed to mail anything as long as there are enough postage stamps on it, and if you get clearance for things like animals.. in this case that didnt happen

but effectively you can mail yourself if you had about $2000 (assuming you weight about 65kgs), According to my dad who works at the GPO