Roughly 1,500 tarantulas found stuffed in boxes meant for chocolate cake
The tarantulas — large and hairy arachnids — were in a packet addressed to be shipped from Vietnam to North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany. The venomous spiders were crammed into small plastic containers that were then filled into the bright-red cake boxes.
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