I have long complained that U.S. customs forms are missing obvious boxes to check for elephant tails, dried hedgehogs, chicken blood, and the like. That appears to be the defense of a man caught traveling from Ghana with a case filled with a horror show of animal parts.
The unnamed 59-year-old man did not declare such such items in arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport on Dec. 3 on his way to Maryland.
His suitcase contained two elephant tails, bloody sheets, five chicken feathers, chicken blood, a dried hedgehog, two dried chameleons, grass, seed pods, tree bark chips and a jug filled with soil, herbs and blood.
Notably, the man was not charged with any crime. However, the contents were destroyed as a threat to U.S. agriculture. The elephant tails were seized as violations of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
Source: Washington Examiner
Jonathan Turley
Say what?
Gyges,
Strangely enough, whenever I have that pleasant dream where I’ve turned on the TV and see Bush in handcuffs being frogmarched into a detention facility?
It’s Mr. Mancini’s music I hear playing.
It’s a very happy dream . . . right down to the soundtrack.
Cato: “It probably had something to do with his religion. I thought we had freedom of religion?”
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Yes, and some of us harbor the thought that the founders went a bit too far with that. It would have been nice to establish a country where the people nor the government gave any recognition to such mass delusion.
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lol, nal.
If you’re going to bring your own food though, wouldn’t you want to bring something better than airline food?
This gentleman seems to have missed that opportunity.
Another example of what happens when airlines delete their in-flight meal service.
jamesinontario64
1, December 13, 2010 at 8:42 am
Guys a nut bar…………..go figure eh……..elephant tails…lol
It probably had something to do with his religion. I thought we had freedom of religion?
Guys a nut bar…………..go figure eh……..elephant tails…lol