A Mexican, a German and a lizard walk into a bar

Nothing about this story makes any sense.

Apparently there is a multi-million dollar trade in endangered animals. But who is looking to buy a black market gecko? What do you do with a rare $200,000 NZ gecko? To anyone on the street, it’s just another lizard. And yet anyone with enough knowledge of reptiles to appreciate it would also know that it had to have been smuggled. I can’t imagine that the bearded, bespectacled members of the British Herpetological Society (yes, really) are the kind of people to engage of trafficking of any kind. Unless there is some kind of reptile fetish among the Mafia? Godfather, this month’s haul include a case of diamonds, 2 keys of coke and a New Zealand Northern Brown Skink.

And check out the attempted smuggler’s accomplices- a stockbroker from Switzerland and a Mexican chef. How did these guys met in the first place, let alone come up with an idea for an international lizard smuggling ring? It sounds like the lead characters in a sitcom.