At Peru’s Jorge Chávez International Airport, authorities were conducting a routine customs inspection when they spotted strange wriggling movements inside some luggage. I can’t even begin to imagine the wacky stuff these agents find in people’s bags—but I would have loved to see their faces when they realized that the offending wrigglers were just some of the thousands of tarantulas distributed among three different suitcases, as reported by the Agence France-Presse via The Guardian.

Authorities in Lima have seized over 3,000 tarantulas hidden inside dirty socks in the luggage of two German nationals and one Polish citizen heading to Germany, according to a translated government statement . The geniuses were at the boarding areas probably sweating bullets when agents caught up with them.…