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Customs officers find suitcase full of baboon noses
Ananova ^
| 09/03/03
Posted on 09/03/2003 7:51:30 AM PDT by Pokey78
Customs officers at Holland's main airport opened a smelly suitcase to find it full of rotting baboon noses.
![A baboon /AP](http://www.ananova.com/images/web/68236.jpg)
The suitcase, which had come from Nigeria, was packed with up to 2,000 of the body parts decaying in plastic bags.
The bag had been left in storage at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, but attracted the attention of customs officers because of the smell, reports the NU news website.
A customs spokesman said it was believed the noses were either intended for human consumption or to make medicine. The contents of the bag have been destroyed.
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posted on
09/03/2003 7:51:30 AM PDT
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
I suppose we should be grateful that it was the noses of baboons and not the southern end, eh?
2
posted on
09/03/2003 7:53:05 AM PDT
by
WestPacSailor
(Sorry folks, this tagline's closed. The moose out front should of told you.)
To: WestPacSailor
Just remember, you can pick your baboon and you can pick your nose, but you cant pick your baboons nose, er, well, I guess now you can.
To: aculeus; general_re; BlueLancer; Chancellor Palpatine; mhking; Shermy
Nigerian Baboon-Nose Scam alert.
4
posted on
09/03/2003 7:59:44 AM PDT
by
dighton
(NLC™)
To: Pokey78
"...either intended for human consumption or to make medicine."???
These kinds of practices are a few of the suspected vectors for the transmission of diseases like HIV and Ebola from monkeys and primates to humans are they not?
How many people have to die before they knock this stuff off down there?
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posted on
09/03/2003 8:08:13 AM PDT
by
4Freedom
(America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity', it's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!)
To: Pokey78
The bag had been left in storage at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, but attracted the attention of customs officers because of the smell, reports the NU news website.Oh, God... so that's where I left it...! :)
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posted on
09/03/2003 8:13:58 AM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("The Clintons have damaged our country. They have done it together, in unison." -- Peggy Noonan)
To: WestPacSailor; tractorman
Baboons spend a whole lot of time sniffing other baboon's "southern ends". If the Nigerians eat one, it's the same as eating the other for them.
LOL!
7
posted on
09/03/2003 8:14:46 AM PDT
by
4Freedom
(America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity', it's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!)
To: Pokey78
Who said Nigeria was not exporting Weapons of Mass Destruction?
8
posted on
09/03/2003 8:26:10 AM PDT
by
sd-joe
To: Pokey78
Not again!
To: dighton
Those wacky Nigerians, always trying to scam a buck. They remind of a cold-calling penny-stock broker I once met back in the eighties, who when asked about his success in harrassing potenial investors by unsolicited phone calls, replied: "Hey, if you throw enough spaghetti on the wall, some of it has to stick!"
10
posted on
09/03/2003 9:08:41 AM PDT
by
Ranxerox
To: Pokey78
Noses smell. And we are surprised by this?
11
posted on
09/03/2003 9:16:43 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
("Pillage, THEN Burn")
To: Pokey78
Can't we talk about the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.) instead of smelly noses?
To: dighton; general_re; BlueLancer; Chancellor Palpatine; mhking; Shermy
Nigerian Baboon-Nose Scam alert. I didn't get the email.
13
posted on
09/03/2003 9:49:19 AM PDT
by
aculeus
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
What - are baboon boogers a delicacy for the french or something!?
Just damn.
If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
14
posted on
09/03/2003 10:13:06 AM PDT
by
mhking
(Ewwwwwwwww!!!!!!)
To: Pokey78
idiot jerks.
15
posted on
09/03/2003 10:34:19 AM PDT
by
bedolido
(None of us is as dumb as all of us!)
To: Pokey78
Morons....there is a special room in hell for them.
16
posted on
09/03/2003 10:43:25 AM PDT
by
najida
(What handbasket? And where did you say we were going?)
To: Pokey78
I thought Baboons were somewhat endangered. How would you find 2,000 baboons? (Sounds like the beginning of a joke)
17
posted on
09/03/2003 10:46:14 AM PDT
by
Hildy
To: irish guard
I thought MILF meant something else....
18
posted on
09/03/2003 11:25:46 AM PDT
by
Auntbee
To: Auntbee
Well it is a bit of double entendre' .......and I prefer thinking about MILFs over monkey snout!
To: Pokey78
Could have been worse. Could have been [insert baboon anatomy here]
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posted on
09/03/2003 12:43:24 PM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Liberal = Socialist = Communist)
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