You can't make this up.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.
Customs: Woman hid fish under skirt
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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.
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.
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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...
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Does customs actually do that? I hear people joking about things like that all the time, but how often does it actually happen?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...
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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...Master of Ossus wrote:Does customs actually do that? I hear people joking about things like that all the time, but how often does it actually happen?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...
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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.Master of Ossus wrote:Does customs actually do that? I hear people joking about things like that all the time, but how often does it actually happen?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...
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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.
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Not that I know of, though it wouldn't surprise me if such people existed.Uraniun235 wrote:Do you ever get people who basically want to be cavity-searched because it turns them on?
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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: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...
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