Two Chinese suspects arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport with Bt10m worth of rhino horns

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Two Chinese suspects arrested with Bt10m worth of rhino horns

By Suthinan Khongsin 
The Nation

 

 

Eight rhino horns worth Bt10 million were seized at Suvarnabhumi International Airport on Wednesday as two Chinese suspects were allegedly smuggling the contraband through Thailand.

Suvarnabhumi Airport Customs Office director Bhuntiam Chokwiwat said customs officers captured the two Chinese men while they were in transit from Zambia to Cambodia, as they smuggled eight rhino horns in their check-in baggage.

 

 

The two men were identified as Cheng Yan Xiu and Lin Mi. Both men were charged with violating customs law and illegally transporting restricted animal parts.

 

Bhuntiam said officers became suspicious about Cheng's bag and stopped him for an inspection. After officers found the rhino horns, he confessed that he had been hired by Lin to transport them for Bt25,000.

 

Lin denied the allegation, but officers detained both men.

 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/around_thailand/30329109

 

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[Oziex1]

What a tragedy it is Rhino horn made from the same material as hair and fingernails. No magic properties at all. 

[bheard]

What a tragedy it is Rhino horn made from the same material as hair and fingernails. No magic properties at all. 

Yup. Really sad. And for those wanting to consume it, totally dumb.

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[Misterwhisper]

11 minutes ago, Oziex1 said:

What a tragedy it is Rhino horn made from the same material as hair and fingernails. No magic properties at all. 

I think the real tragedy here is that these 8 horns represent 8 dead rhinos in a rapidly dwindling population. And for what? So superstitious Chinese blokes can shell out mega bucks for rhino horn powder that they believe will cure their erectile dysfunction or enhance their sexual prowess. I say: If they cannot get it up anymore or not long enough, they should leave it be and seek another hobby - or, as you have correctly pointed out, swallow their finger and toe nail clippings because they consist of exactly the same material as rhino horn. And those two smugglers, if convicted in a court of law, should be executed. It is they, the poachers and their idiot customers who are among those directly responsible for the approaching extinction of a number of magnificent creatures, including rhinos, tigers and a long list of other mammal and reptile species. Humankind... the bane of this world.   

[Thian]

Give them lifetime in jail and publish it in all chinese newspapers.

[Lupatria]

Killing the last of these animals for TCM. It's time to BBQ a couple of Pandas to make these freaks understand but that would probably end up in wars on a diplomatic level. I would know where to stick the rhino horns...

[trogers]

44 minutes ago, Thian said:

Give them lifetime in jail and publish it in all chinese newspapers.

Why waste the money of taxpayers? Just make them eunuchs...nuts and all...

[rkidlad]

Is this one of the few times where you can say how utterly stupid something is without having some apologist saying, "but it's the culture". 

 

Glad to see we can all agree that killing an endangered animal for its body parts in the quest for magic powers is utterly moronic. 

[xtrnuno41]

And in the mean time Americans go there, Africa. to shoot whatever is coming their way, just to have a trophy on their chimney.

Just to blast the live out of an animal. Now even kids are educated to shoot an animal, just for fun and a thrill.

 

Yeah Chinese are really bad, not only the rhino's but just about everything which is an animal is killed.

Sharks , tigres, dogs , it doesnt matter. WIth sharks to cut off their vins and throw it back "alive" . 

 

ANd for what ? To get rich from rich people and the Americans just to brag about how they killed an animal with their guns

to have some stupid story to tell.

 

As Louis sang: what a wonderfull world, o yeaahhhhhhhh 

[BuaBS]

Maybe extinction is the best for rhino's . No more next generations to murder for their horn.

[champers]

Plenty of shark fin soup restuarants in Thailand to cater for Chinese tourist tastes.

[phantomfiddler]

What a pair of a*s*h*l*s ! Should be given at least a year for each rhino horn. The chinese are going to be ultimately responsible for the extinction of many of the world,s species !

[Thingamabob]

Scumbags. Rot in hell.

[Cadbury]

And Customs collected them up and packaged them and returned them to the Zambian government despite some of their compadres pleading they could be sold for a handsome profit at the Chatuchak Market.

[mduras01]

On a serious note, is that how we came up with the word horny?


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[attrayant]

34 minutes ago, mduras01 said:

On a serious note, is that how we came up with the word horny?

 

In the mid 18th century, the phrase "horn colic" was used to describe an unexpected or unwanted state of sexual arousal.  "Horn" was a common slang term for any rigid protrusion from an animal, and "colic" was used to attach a sense of disfunction or shame, as it was considered improper by many to become aroused for any purpose other than procreation.

[Johnnyngai]

Third world people with third world believes. 

[Stargeezr]

These two guys are a drop in the bucket of scumbags that are killing off the anmals in

Africa and Asia for tusks of hair or ivory. Africa the Dark continent will exist like this

for the next 100 years because of the corruption of the past 100 years. China is no

better.

Geezer

[ChiangMaiLightning2143]

A magnificent animal targeted for nothing. A giant dirty fingernail of mythical worth only. One live Rhino worth more than 1000 of these perverted primitive saps, jail them for life in a concrete cage!






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[Ruffian Dick]

Obviously African rhinos. They've pretty much single-handedly condemned the Asian rhinos to oblivion.

[anon789561]

so the only answer it seems is cutting off their horns before the smugglers get to them. sad. rhino's running around without horns because of no sense medicinal powers. what a world we live in

[Ossy]

19 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

And those two smugglers, if convicted in a court of law, should be executed. It is they, the poachers and their idiot customers who are among those directly responsible for the approaching extinction of a number of magnificent creatures, including rhinos, tigers and a long list of other mammal and reptile species. Humankind... the bane of this world.   

Absolutely . . . Thailand executes drug traffickers because of the huge threat to mankind that they represent. Because of the even more clear-cut threat to the animal kingdom that these saddoes represent, I would argue a similar case . . . and for their sources, also.

[Ossy]

18 hours ago, Lupatria said:

Killing the last of these animals for TCM. It's time to BBQ a couple of Pandas to make these freaks understand but that would probably end up in wars on a diplomatic level. I would know where to stick the rhino horns...

What's this gotta do with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre? I deplore this current fad for using SAP - 'streetwise abbreviation speak', of course, for the less streetwise amongst you - when a few more seconds typing would remove all ambiguity. And I don't intend to be acronymous, here, honestly!

[Elkski]

I say out these two gents in a zoo rhino pen.    So sad.   

Just a small fact about hunting in Africa and other countries.  Hunting many times has been directly responsible for the reintroduction if animals in areas and the population is higher now than 40 years ago.  Ex. Utah moose. 

[Ossy]

18 hours ago, rkidlad said:

 . . . say how utterly stupid something is without having some apologist saying, "but it's the culture". 

But, rkidlad, it is the culture - the farang culture, that is - to bicker and bite about absolutely nothing at all . . . it's what keeps thaivisa up and running . . . so there!!!!!!

[Ossy]

16 hours ago, BuaBS said:

Maybe extinction is the best for rhino's . No more next generations to murder for their horn.

And maybe best for humanity, too, so next generations can't be nuked . . . or run over by buses . . . or erratic Thai drivers. Rattling two pots at once, there

[Ossy]

16 hours ago, champers said:

Plenty of shark fin soup restuarants in Thailand to cater for Chinese tourist tastes.

That's just as bad. if I ruled the world, anyone caught eating shark fin soup would face the maximum possible sentence . . . currently twenty-four hours, up to your chin in shark-infested waters.

[Ossy]

16 hours ago, phantomfiddler said:

responsible for the extinction of many of the world,s species !

Humankind, too, unless they can get their N Korean chums to tone it down a bit. Donald only wants to play and will be no risk at all, once he's passed his Twitter course . . . some people are slower than others.

[Ossy]

10 hours ago, mduras01 said:

 . . . is that how we came up with the word horny?

mmm . . . you catch on quick! Then again, it might have alluded to blowing on Little Boy Blue's horn. Ah, those were the day's; come along, Ossy . . . time for beddy-bye:-

Little Boy Blue,
Come blow your horn,
The sheep's in the meadow,
The cow's in the corn;
But where is the boy
Who looks after the sheep?
He's under a haystack,
He's fast asleep.
Will you wake him?
No, not I,
For if I do,
He's sure to cry.^[

[Ossy]

10 hours ago, attrayant said:

 

In the mid 18th century, the phrase "horn colic" was used to describe an unexpected or unwanted state of sexual arousal.  "Horn" was a common slang term for any rigid protrusion from an animal, and "colic" was used to attach a sense of disfunction or shame, as it was considered improper by many to become aroused for any purpose other than procreation.

Thank you, Doctor . . . I'll come again, next week.