Posted on 03/23/2019 4:46:05 PM PDT by 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.
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GREAT headline.
“Right turn, Clyde.”
Can’t believe it took 12 posts before this reference showed up. :-)
I hate to say it:
“Is that an orangutan in your luggage, or are you happy to see me?”
“Hasn’t he ever heard of mail-order brides?”
He obviously wanted to pick his out in person.
Nah. That was just Stacy Abrams and being brought to her new home by her new lover.
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