Posted on 10/06/2023 6:40:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
Customs specialists at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport seized a box of giraffe droppings from an Iowa woman who brought them back from Kenya with the intention of making a necklace. Photo courtesy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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Oct. 5 (UPI) -- Customs officials in Minnesota seized a box of giraffe feces from a traveler who arrived from Kenya and said she planned to use the droppings to make a necklace.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the Iowa resident was selected for inspection by agriculture specialists upon arriving at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from a trip to Kenya.
"The passenger declared giraffe feces and stated she had obtained the droppings in Kenya and planned to make a necklace," CBP said in a news release. "The passenger also stated in the past she had used moose feces at her home in Iowa."
The CBP specialists seized the box and the contents were destroyed via steam sterilization.
"There is a real danger with bringing fecal matter into the U.S.," said LaFonda Sutton-Burke, CBP's director of field operations for the Chicago Field Office. "If this person had entered the U.S. and had not declared these items, there is high possibility a person could have contracted a disease from this jewelry and developed serious health issues."
CBP said any feces brought to the United States by an overseas traveler require a veterinary services permit.
Wow, so very much wrong with this ...
CBP is performing agricultural inspections ... well someone has to. But at an airport in Minneapolis?
A US agency spent the time to create a Veterinary Services Permit? Well, someone has to.
A veterinary services permit for feces? Giraffe feces? One can get permission? And not work at a zoo or animal sanctuary?
I guess the world has changed on me.
I found the form and an interactive guide to filling out the form. Enjoy.
Brings to mind the fellow on Johnny Carson years ago that showed his necklace made of quail poop.
All ‘international’ airports have customs agent..........
I realize that, but somehow did not expect that they would be familiar with foreign feces.
OTOH, it is much easier to fly from Nairobi to Minneapolis than from Mogadishu to Minneapolis.
Times, they are a changin.
>>A giraffe crap necklace? Those Minnesota voters are weird.
She’s from Iowa. (But that doesn’t excuse the MN voters.)
LOL. Iowa? I must have missed that. That’s even worse.
Because the same sort of idiots wiped out Florida’s booming citrus industry by accidentally introducing the insects that carry lethal yellowing disease.
I had at least 30 highly productive young trees and after lethal yellowing killed a neighbor’s tree down the road mine followed. Three years later I was down to just two tangerine trees and a limequat.
“”high possibility a person could have contracted a disease from this jewelry and developed serious health issues.””
Who would care??
I’m speechless.
I remember moose poop being quite a cottage industry in Alaska, in the ‘70s. They made little “moose-quitos” and other gimcracks to sell to the tourists.
Fake moose poop. It has come to this. (Sighing sadly...)
Could be a loopy liberal but an “Iowa resident” could also be a member of the imported diversity brigade, too.
I was in Fairbanks in the early 80s. They were selling “moose nuggets” everywhere. LOL.
Liberals are weird. Why do they want Giraffe crap?
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Because unicorn crap is hard to come by these days.
Yeah, it might catch something from all the poop we already have here.
That's probably what she really wanted to bring in so she needed a distraction.
ROTFL! Got me! Good one.
Life in Kenya is like a box of Giraffe nuggets. I wonder if that’s the Kenyan gift box.
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