Indian Man Caught At Airport Trying To Smuggle Controlled Wildlife

[webfact]

 

by TNR Staff 

 

A YOUNG Indian man was caught trying to smuggle six types of controlled wildlife totalling 17 of them at Suvarnabhumi Airport August 16, Matichon newspaper said.

 

At 11 p.m.  Mr. Prasert Sonsathapornkul, director of the Wildlife and Plant Protection Division (under CITES Convention) was alerted by security officials at this airport that an X-Ray scan at the international departure checkpoint had found creatures in one of the suitcases.

 

Subsequently the airport’s wildlife checkpoint officials together with others from the animal quarantine station and customs inspectors checked the suitcase.

 

Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2022/08/17/indian-man-caught-at-airport-trying-to-smuggle-controlled-wildlife/

 

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[law ling]

1. From linked article:

 

a desert fox, a raccoon, eight marmoset monkeys, two green skinks, three monitor lizards, and two albino pythons. 

 

... some of those, like the marmosets  are not even native here.

 

2. Good to see that checked-in luggage (assuming that's what it was) is x-rayed here.

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, law ling said:

1. From linked article:

 

a desert fox, a raccoon, eight marmoset monkeys, two green skinks, three monitor lizards, and two albino pythons. 

 

... some of those, like the marmosets  are not even native here.

 

2. Good to see that checked-in luggage (assuming that's what it was) is x-rayed here.

What was he doing, stocking a zoo back home. Skinks of all things!

[Excel]

2 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

What was he doing, stocking a zoo back home. Skinks of all things!

Possibly he had a buyer for them so he could buy another gold necklace to replace the one a lady boy took from him ????

[zzaa09]

Why.....??

????

[mikebell]

Another quality tourist that is going to pull Thailand out of the tourist abys.

[RichardColeman]

Must be pretty stupid knowing luggage will be put through scanners that pick up this kind of thing

[JBChiangRai]

So now you know what the chicken is in your Bhuna

[sammieuk1]

1 hour ago, zzaa09 said:

Why.....??

????

Lunch ????

[Photoguy21]

1 hour ago, mikebell said:

Another quality tourist that is going to pull Thailand out of the tourist abys.

I always say, having worked with many Indians, when you shake hands with them count your fingers afterwards.

[userabcd]

Humans are despicable, continually preying on other species.

[Joseph98765]

So if the parrot fish Tik Twater gets 5 years? how much this M. <deleted>!??

Edited August 18, 2022 by metisdead
Profanity removed.

[Excel]

6 hours ago, Joseph98765 said:

So if the parrot fish Tik Twater gets 5 years? how much this M. <deleted>!??

Well the tik tocker has not got 5 years, or even sentenced yet. And I guess as the Indian didn't kill anything, unlike the tik tocker, it could well be a substantial fine, deported and black listed perhaps. We shall just have to wait and see.

[RandiRona]

Was he so dumb or a fortune teller told him that today is his lucky day to not worry about X ray scan?

Send him to Zoo...he is such a specimen.

 

 

 

Edited August 18, 2022 by RandiRona

[kidneyw]

3 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

So now you know what the chicken is in your Bhuna

Yep, skinks.

[Excel]

3 minutes ago, RandiRona said:

Was he so dumb or a fortune teller told him that today is his lucky day to not worry about X ray scan?

Send him to Zoo...he is such a specimen.

 

 

 

Possibly to be fair to him he is so used to putting live ducks, chickens and geese into the overhead locker on his previous internal Indian flights he never gave much thought to what he shouldn't do here ????

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

So now you know what the chicken is in your Bhuna

????

[rudi49jr]

6 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Why.....??

????

Money, like always. Wildlife trafficking is extremely profitable, the big boys earn mega-bucks with it, and the risks are relatively low. And Thailand is a trafficker’s dream, because literally everybody can be bribed to look the other way.

[mikeymike100]

1 hour ago, Joseph98765 said:

So if the parrot fish Tik Twater gets 5 years? how much this M. <deleted>!??

Just what i was thinking. Should be fined 5 million baht, 10 years in a Thai jail, then deported!

[transam]

He is probably a mule, and I hope he spends some time wiv some other animals......????..................????

[Burma Bill]

14 hours ago, webfact said:

the animal quarantine station and customs inspectors checked the suitcase.

From the link to TNR:-

 

"Within his suitcase were found a desert fox, a raccoon, eight marmoset monkeys, two green skinks, three monitor lizards, and two albino pythons. They were hidden in plastic baskets with the rest of the suitcase filled with food and snacks"

Must have been a large suitcase??

 

 

Edited August 18, 2022 by metisdead
Oversize font reset to normal, trolling image removed.

[xylophone]

3 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Must have been a large suitcase??

About the size of a small shipping container I would think! What an lowlife idiot. 

[aussienam]

Low life smugglers.  Often they go for the protected, endangered species which fetch more money overseas.  

Could be for a private collector,  could be for Chinese medicine garbage, who knows.   Poor animals at the hands of a###oles.  Hope he spends time in a cage for a few years.

[Excel]

1 hour ago, xylophone said:

About the size of a small shipping container I would think! What an lowlife idiot. 

Somebody on here mentioned a mule so it must have been a reasonable size container ????

[blackshadow]

7 hours ago, Excel said:

Well the tik tocker has not got 5 years, or even sentenced yet. And I guess as the Indian didn't kill anything, unlike the tik tocker, it could well be a substantial fine, deported and black listed perhaps. We shall just have to wait and see.

if we have a follow up story on here !!!

 

[Jaybott]

17 hours ago, mikeymike100 said:

fined 5 million baht, 10 years in a Thai jail, then deported!

In a suitcase.

[mikeymike100]

17 hours ago, aussienam said:

Low life smugglers.  Often they go for the protected, endangered species which fetch more money overseas.  

Could be for a private collector,  could be for Chinese medicine garbage, who knows.   Poor animals at the hands of a###oles.  Hope he spends time in a cage for a few years.

"Hope he spends time in a cage for a few years."

 

Agreed, A very long time in a very small cage!