Is that a monkey in your pants or are you just happy to see me?

(Not Roberto Cabrera)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A man with a mysterious bulge under his T-shirt was stopped, searched and detained at Mexico City's international airport after authorities found 18 tiny endangered monkeys in a girdle he was wearing.

The Public Safety Department said in a statement Monday that 38-year-old Roberto Cabrera arrived on a commercial flight Friday from Lima, Peru, when authorities noticed the bulge and conducted a body search.

The department says Cabrera was carrying the 6-inch (15-centimeter) titi monkeys in pouches attached to the girdle. Two of the monkeys were dead.

Cabrera was arrested on charges of trafficking an endangered species.

Cabrera told authorities he was carrying the monkeys in a suitcase but decided to put them in his girdle "so the X-rays wouldn't hurt them."







I don't know where to start with this one? Should I make a joke about a man smuggling monkeys in his pants? or the fact that the monkeys in question are titi monkeys? What about the mysterious bulge? what would constitute a normal bulge just so i know whether or not my gut will lead to a body search?