Customs: Woman hid fish under skirt

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2005-06-07 10:55am

Reuters wrote: MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian woman was found to be carrying 51 live tropical fish after custom officials were alerted by "flipping" noises coming from beneath her skirt as she arrived at Melbourne airport.

On closer inspection, officers discovered the woman had strapped on an apron of plastic water-filled bags containing the fish, the Australian Customs Service said in a statement on Tuesday.

"During the search, customs officers became suspicious after hearing 'flipping' noises coming from the vicinity of her waist," said the statement.

The 43-year-old woman arrived in Melbourne on a flight from Singapore last Friday. Customs are still trying to determine what type of fish she brought into the country and have not yet charged her with an offence.

She could face charges for breaking quarantine and customs laws for bringing in the fish without giving a declaration.

A search of the woman's home in Melbourne found another five fish.

You can't make this up.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2005-06-07 11:00am

She must really love seafood

Robert Walper · Post by **Robert Walper** » 2005-06-07 11:02am

So this explains why women can smell like fish down there...

Post by **Gandalf** » 2005-06-07 11:05am

What a fishy plot, I'm surprised customs didn't flip out.

That eing said, I believe we can blame the popularity of tropical fish tanks. People want showy tropical fish, and it's a booming trade.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2005-06-07 11:27am

I'm sure guys who work at customs are happy, since they have another excuse to look.

"Madam, we have to search for tropical fish before you can enter the country. Lift up your skirt so we can see if you're hiding anything."

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2005-06-07 02:53pm

I hope they did a body cavity search on her while they were at it. She might've had a bag of stuffed up there somewhere. You can never be too safe these days...

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2005-06-07 03:30pm

aerius wrote:I hope they did a body cavity search on her while they were at it. She might've had a bag of stuffed up there somewhere. You can never be too safe these days...

Does customs actually do that? I hear people joking about things like that all the time, but how often does it actually happen?

Post by **Edi** » 2005-06-07 03:34pm

Master of Ossus wrote:
aerius wrote:I hope they did a body cavity search on her while they were at it. She might've had a bag of stuffed up there somewhere. You can never be too safe these days...
Does customs actually do that? I hear people joking about things like that all the time, but how often does it actually happen?

Oh yes, they do. A friend of my brothers once got stopped at customs in Holland or someplace else in Europe and asked to step aside to have his luggage looked at. I don't know if he gave the customs officials any shit otherwise, but he did crack a joke that if they intended to search, no use going for half measures, and they took him up on that...

Edi

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2005-06-07 03:40pm

Which is why you should never crack a joke with a guard or security official

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2005-06-07 03:48pm

Master of Ossus wrote:
aerius wrote:I hope they did a body cavity search on her while they were at it. She might've had a bag of stuffed up there somewhere. You can never be too safe these days...
Does customs actually do that? I hear people joking about things like that all the time, but how often does it actually happen?

Let's just put it this way. We have a dedicated room at the airport for doing full body cavity searches. We also have a dedicated room for strip searches, and another one with steel toilets in it for swallowers to crap out the stuff they swallowed. It's a surprisingly common event, then again we get something like 80,000 passengers a day coming through our airport.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2005-06-07 03:56pm

Do you ever get people who basically want to be cavity-searched because it turns them on?

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2005-06-07 05:42pm

aerius wrote:Let's just put it this way. We have a dedicated room at the airport for doing full body cavity searches. We also have a dedicated room for strip searches, and another one with steel toilets in it for swallowers to crap out the stuff they swallowed. It's a surprisingly common event, then again we get something like 80,000 passengers a day coming through our airport.

They don't pay you guys enough.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2005-06-07 06:22pm

Uraniun235 wrote:Do you ever get people who basically want to be cavity-searched because it turns them on?

Not that I know of, though it wouldn't surprise me if such people existed.

Master of Ossus wrote:They don't pay you guys enough.

My union agrees, and they got us a pay raise on our latest contract.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2005-06-07 07:49pm

Edi wrote: Oh yes, they do. A friend of my brothers once got stopped at customs in Holland or someplace else in Europe and asked to step aside to have his luggage looked at. I don't know if he gave the customs officials any shit otherwise, but he did crack a joke that if they intended to search, no use going for half measures, and they took him up on that...

Edi

A friend of mine got stopped at the Austrian boarder (back in the days when there was no EU) and the story went like this:

Customs guy: "Alcohol, Drugs, Tobbacco."
Friend: "No thanks, we´ve got all we need."
Customs guy: "Please follow me to my little room so i can look into your ass."

or so the story goes.

Azazel · Post by **Azazel** » 2005-06-08 05:58pm

That's absolutely brilliant. Like a fish utility belt.