Man arrested at airport for smuggling drugged orangutan in luggage

Fox News ^ | March 23, 2019 | Janine Puhak

[EdnaMode]

One Russian man was arrested at a Bali airport for attempting to smuggle a drugged baby orangutan in his luggage out of the air hub and back to his home country. The tourist now faces up to $7,000 in fines and five years in prison.

On Friday night, Andrei Zhestkov was detained at Ngurah Rai International Airport before boarding a flight back to Russia, The Independent reports. Officials found the 2-year-old orangutan fast asleep in a basket, evidently drugged with allergy pills, after a routine security screening.

Zhestkov, 27, reportedly told officials that he had been given the protected primate by his friend, who had bought the creature for $3,000 at a Java street market. He detailed that his friend, also from Russia, had convinced him he could take the orangutan home to keep as a pet, as per The Guardian.

[EdnaMode]

Aww, poor thing. How awful.

[Innovative]

“The baby orangutan is now being cared for by the Bali Natural Resources Conservation Agency, BBC reports.”

Good. Poor baby.

[EEGator]

Russian people are more F’d up than Florida Man.

[sparklite2]

“Is that a drugged orangutan in your luggage,
or are you just glad to see me?”

[Vaquero]

[sparklite2]

Yeah, but we get ‘em on quantity!

[Vaquero]

Here. Hold my vodka and watch this

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I think George actually had a better argument than this guy. I mean, some companies might not care too much if you had sex with the cleaning woman.

But there's no airline in the world that's going to let you keep a drugged baby orangutan in your carry-on bag.

[Fido969]

Russian orange man bad.

[End Times Sentinel]

But there's no airline in the world that's going to let you keep a drugged baby orangutan in your carry-on bag.

What's your choice of emotional support animal?

[bigbob]

Imagine what that looked like on the x-ray

[ConservaTexan]

“Right turn, Clyde.”

[skepsel]

A drugged orangutan in your luggage, sounds like a Hunter S. Thompson story.

[howlinhound]

He must be desperate for company. Hasn’t he ever heard of mail-order brides?

[rrrod]

Now hold on there...we take a lot of pride in Florida man...

[null and void]

He must be desperate for company. Hasn’t he ever heard of mail-order brides?

The problem with mail-order brides is the supply consists largely of Russian women who want anything but a Russian man!

[M Kehoe]

Clyde! Right turn! Bam!

Clyde...

5.56mm

[sparklite2]

A friend of mine got a Russian girl with looks above his pay grade. Boded ill for him. Last I knew, she was still milking him for more and more money to help out her and her relatives back in Russia.

[sparklite2]

What’s your choice of emotional support animal?

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A nymphomaniac whose father owns a liquor store.

[M Kehoe]

Shit, you beat me by 13 minutes.

I am proudly not reading the threads since October 1998.

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