22 pounds of illegal animal parts found in luggage at DFW Airport (Raw meat - kinda graphic) - Polidicks

[t]http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/02/animal-body-parts-seized-at-DFW-Feb-4-2017-US-Customs-Border-Protection.jpg[/t] [quote]DFW AIRPORT -- Specialists with U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 22 pounds of illegal animal meat at DFW Airport earlier this month. In a press release sent Friday, officials said raw chicken, pig, and cow meat, brains, hearts, heads, tongues, feet, and other body parts were found in a woman's luggage as she returned to the U.S. from Vietnam on Feb. 4. “These kinds of meat products are potential carriers for harmful diseases that could result in devastating effects on our agriculture industry.” The meat was found when the passenger provided a "negative customs declaration," but was referred for a baggage exam. The meat in her bag was described as raw, cured or dried. The products were "destroyed by steam sterilization," officials said. CBP seizes about 4,638 prohibited animal or plant products on a daily basis, it said. Restrictions are placed on meat products because officials say they could carry diseases.[/quote] [url]http://www.wfaa.com/news/health/22-pounds-of-animal-meat-seized-at-dfw-airport/406840673?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter[/url] [url]http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/22-Pounds-Of-Animal-Parts-Confiscated-At-DFW-Airport-Officials-413471783.html[/url]

Oh fucking my

I've heard this is a huge problem for Australia. Apparently SE Asians are used to incredibly fresh meats and their families send them off with just slaughtered meat when they leave after visiting home.

Lol asians do these in restaurants, either they can't find what they want in the country, or its cheaper Also its just fuckin chicken feet what's graphic about that

[QUOTE=Svinnik;51811853]I've heard this is a huge problem for Australia. Apparently SE Asians are used to incredibly fresh meats and their families send them off with just slaughtered meat when they leave after visiting home.[/QUOTE] Yeah, if you watch an episode of Border Security you'll see tonnes of Asians trying to bring back their aunt's special recipe from their home country and then get irate when customs seizes it.

[QUOTE=Svinnik;51811853]I've heard this is a huge problem for Australia. Apparently SE Asians are used to incredibly fresh meats and their families send them off with just slaughtered meat when they leave after visiting home.[/QUOTE] only this wouldn't be incredibly fresh after sitting in a suitcase for 17 hours or more.

[QUOTE=UK Bohemian;51812135]only this wouldn't be incredibly fresh after sitting in a suitcase for 17 hours or more.[/QUOTE] I'm just imagining being stuck on a long plane ride with suitcases full of rotting meat in the overhead. ...Ugh

I flew back from Tenerife yesterday and this very thought came to mind. It's not like you could pull over and throw it out either.

[QUOTE=download;51811892]Yeah, if you watch an episode of Border Security you'll see tonnes of Asians trying to bring back their aunt's special recipe from their home country and then get irate when customs seizes it.[/QUOTE] I once watched an episode of this, and one old lady just had a suitcase full of nuts. Not even in a bag or anything, the suitcase was just filled to the brim with nuts. The moment they unzipped it, nuts poured out. The lady was like "I no speak English please don't take nuts". It's kind of puzzling to see what people put in their luggage every now and then.

I'm so fucking confused. Don't they know that meat rots?

[QUOTE=V12US;51812338]I once watched an episode of this, and one old lady just had a suitcase full of nuts. Not even in a bag or anything, the suitcase was just filled to the brim with nuts. The moment they unzipped it, nuts poured out. The lady was like "I no speak English please don't take nuts". It's kind of puzzling to see what people put in their luggage every now and then.[/QUOTE] I know that way back in the day when my parents were flying into the 'States, stuff like mango pickles would make their drug sniffing dogs go nuts, to the point where my aunt waiting to pick them up on the other side would factor in about 30 minutes of the inevitable time that'd be spent with the Customs guy peering into the jar, asking my parents what the heck was in it, realizing it was pickles and then letting them through. Recently, my brother-in-law's dad got caught up in this because it was the first time he was flying and he had no idea that the bananas that he'd grown in his garden and wanted to show his son fell under the gamut of "things that are bad to bring into the country". He'd planted a banana tree at his house back in Kerala and has recently learned how to make banana chips, so he innocently wanted to bring a few over to show my sister and brother-in-law. Poor guy ended up detained in the airport while he tried to explain himself and his bananas were ultimately confiscated. He was inconsolable when my brother-in-law explained to him that they likely destroyed it. :cry:

[QUOTE=snookypookums;51812398]I know that way back in the day when my parents were flying into the 'States, stuff like mango pickles would make their drug sniffing dogs go nuts, to the point where my aunt waiting to pick them up on the other side would factor in about 30 minutes of the inevitable time that'd be spent with the Customs guy peering into the jar, asking my parents what the heck was in it, realizing it was pickles and then letting them through. Recently, my brother-in-law's dad got caught up in this because it was the first time he was flying and he had no idea that the bananas that he'd grown in his garden and wanted to show his son fell under the gamut of "things that are bad to bring into the country". He'd planted a banana tree at his house back in Kerala and has recently learned how to make banana chips, so he innocently wanted to bring a few over to show my sister and brother-in-law. Poor guy ended up detained in the airport while he tried to explain himself and his bananas were ultimately confiscated. He was inconsolable when my brother-in-law explained to him that they likely destroyed it. :cry:[/QUOTE] That's what happens when traveling becomes so fucking affordable, and you have middle class asians with zero cultural understanding flying everywhere I go to the airport often, and if you look at the shit mainland chinese and Indian people carry are just ridiculous Boxes of fruits, boxes of beers, and like their luggages are exploding with clothes and they have to repack which just makes a mess at the airport.

what puzzles me is if you can afford to fly long haul, you can afford to buy this shit when you get there.

[QUOTE=UK Bohemian;51812671]what puzzles me is if you can afford to fly long haul, you can afford to buy this shit when you get there.[/QUOTE] Well sometimes it's just not the same, my family has a hazelnut farm in Turkey and when my grandmother or relatives come to the states they always bring a bunch of hazelnuts from that years harvest because they make grow so much of it. And they're freaking amazing, you can really taste the difference between regular old store brand hazelnuts and the stuff that you get straight from the farm, it's like night and day. That being said I could see how this is a problem mainly due to disease or the accidental spread of invasive plant or animal species to another country so perhaps it ain't worth it, I'm just so used to seeing relatives bring food and whatnot too and from Turkey from the US and vice versa.

[QUOTE=UK Bohemian;51812671]what puzzles me is if you can afford to fly long haul, you can afford to buy this shit when you get there.[/QUOTE] Some products are not native to the country, humidity, weather, a shitload of factors goes into play. And not all animals taste the same as well, different breeds can only be found in some parts, etc. And then not all produce can be shipped, some, like meat, requires alot of vetting, and if I'm not wrong, USDA and Australia are really anal about meat. So, families who own restaurants that are authentic, will try to risk going through security, hope that they won't be checked, so that the meal doesn't come out as every other fake chinese/indian/asian/turkish crap around the corner.

[QUOTE=UK Bohemian;51812671]what puzzles me is if you can afford to fly long haul, you can afford to buy this shit when you get there.[/QUOTE] It's not a matter of affordability, it's a matter of availability. For example, I haven't been able to find Southeast Asian varieties of bananas anywhere other than in Southeast Asia, and they taste several times better than the bland, powdery Cavendish bananas you find everywhere in the Western world.

My anthropology professor scared the shit out of customs because he had a giant cooler full of primate hands(he studies hands)

[QUOTE=Samiam22;51812138]I'm just imagining being stuck on a long plane ride with suitcases full of rotting meat in the overhead. ...Ugh[/QUOTE] it's clearly not rotting yet