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Article: Snakes in a show: Planes touching down in Daytona Beach are carrying you know what.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- August 19, 2006
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Byline: Etan Horowitz
Aug. 19--DAYTONA BEACH -- Now playing at theaters near you: Snakes on a Plane. Now appearing at Central Florida airports: snakes on planes. As the campy Samuel L. Jackson movie slithers onto screens nationwide, thousands of snakes and the people who love them are descending on Daytona Beach for what is billed as "the largest reptile meeting in the world," the National Reptile Breeders Expo today and Sunday.
Many snakes came by car. A few by bus or train. The rest? On a plane. The annual event at the Ocean Center draws about 500 vendors, with many bringing hundreds of reptiles. Most of the animals are snakes and in ...