Posted on 08/01/2022 11:39:53 AM PDT by dennisw
Aussie officials are now particularly concerned about flights from Indonesia, where cattle are currently experiencing a foot and mouth disease outbreak, according to CNN. Experts say an outbreak down under could cost the country’s economy $80 billion.
A passenger flying from Bali, Indonesia to northern Australia has been slapped with a $1,874 fine after a police dog sniffed his bag and found two McMuffins and a ham croissant.
The passenger, whose identity has not been released, had not declared the Mcdonald’s breakfast order before arriving last week at Darwin Airport in the country’s Northern Territory.
“This will be the most expensive Maccas meal this passenger ever has,” Australia’s Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Murray Watt said Monday statement.
“This fine is twice the cost of an airfare to Bali, but I have no sympathy for people who choose to disobey Australia’s strict biosecurity measures, and recent detections show you will be caught,” he added.
The pup named Zinta that caught the hungry passenger has been specially trained as part of the Australian government’s recent crackdown on imported food.
Australia has eradicated foot and mouth disease and wants to ensure it doesn’t get brought back into the country through undeclared meat products, its government said.
“Australia is FMD-free, and we want it to stay that way,” Watt added of the fine for the Darwin Airport passenger. “Zinta was placed at Darwin Airport as part of the Albanese Government’s tough new biosecurity defenses, and it’s excellent to see she is already contributing to keeping the country safe.”
The government has committed almost $10 million to further prosecute illegal imports and stop the spread of diseases. Airports there now have sanitation foot mats.
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I’ve always said a dog will alert to a ham sandwich.
Why do people like this make me think of a 338 Laputa?
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I think you meant Lapua, but?:
Laputa is a large floating island in the sky inhabited by narrow-minded scientists and philosophers.
Laputa. Sounds like Biden’s Man Benind The Curtain.
Meanwhile, you can get some good eats in Lapua, Finland.
We arrived in Philly from Rome. I’d had a bag with a couple of oranges in my carry-on bookbag. We ate the oranges on the plane...nothing left in the bag. But I’d stuffed the bag back in the bookbag. Sure enough...walking thru the terminal, a cute little uniformed woman with a cute little beagle dinged me. The dog ID’ed the empty bag as the culprit and she let me go after tossing the bag. Did I mention she was cute?
I forget where it was but in one nation that was trying to keep a pathogen out you had to splosh through a cleansing solution. Did not keep out what you might have had on your clothes but cleaning off the shoes at least showed that someone was thinking.
I had some Chinese confiscated at the border after we were in Canada for dinner once, because it was beef and they were worried about some bovine disease.
Didn’t matter that it was steaming hot.
So I wondered, as the customs agent put it in the trash, what landfill it would end up in. I doubted they were going to send it back to Canada.
I might as well have eaten the leftovers.
Many of the people featured are from Third World countries who for some reason feel the need to bring huge quantities of food with them...as if these First World lands didn't have a single supermarket.
Some of the stuff they bring in doesn't appear to be fit for livestock.
Note to self: When traveling into Australia fill suitcase with hundreds of old MCDonald’s sandwich wrappers. No sandwiches. Just wrappers.
I remember Rush telling a story about border guards confiscating Cuban cigars, saying they would be disposed of by “burning” them.
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