Detection Dog Stops Tourist from Smuggling in Smoked Bats

[webfact]

 

BANGKOK, Nov 10 (TNA) – A tourist tried to smuggle smoked bats and pork into the country but to no avail because an “Inspector Beagle” stopped the attempt at Suvarnabhumi airport, according to the Department of Livestock Development.

DLD director-general Somchuan Rattanamangkhalanont said the DLD’s Quarantine and Inspection Canine Unit used sniffer beagle dogs to detect smuggled carcasses in both arrival and departure zones of the airport’s passenger terminal. The checks focused on arrivals from Cambodia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Laos, Vietnam and China.

An “Inspector Beagle” found a suspicious bag from a flight originating from Kunming. Officials opened it and found 2.5 kilograms of smoked bats, 2.5kg of smoked pork legs and 4.5kg of smoked bacon.

 

Full story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news-1055165

 

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[Banana7]

Should also train the dogs for illegal narcotics, explosives, etc.

[cdemundo]

Oh dang, have to change my snacking habits.

 

Edited November 10, 2022 by cdemundo

[marin]

7 minutes ago, Banana7 said:

Should also train the dogs for illegal narcotics, explosives, etc.

They do, some dogs are trained to sniff out currency. 

[phetphet]

Bats?  Was it ever proved they were the source of Covid transmission at  that Chinese market? Or still not found yet?

[realfunster]

Hmm, Kunming you say ?

 

Not very surprising, when I have watched those Aussie border control programs, both the quantity and 'exoticness' of goods found on Chinese arrivals never ceases to amaze...

 

That's a couple of bat snack stories in the last few days, I really hope this is not going to become an in-trend food option here in LoS. 

[HappyExpat57]

10 minutes ago, phetphet said:

Bats?  Was it ever proved they were the source of Covid transmission at  that Chinese market? Or still not found yet?

It will never be proven conclusively one way or another. What boggles the mind is how anyone can think transporting ANY meats across international borders can be acceptable.

[billd766]

41 minutes ago, Banana7 said:

Should also train the dogs for illegal narcotics, explosives, etc.

They do, but those detection dogs are in a different department and have different training methods.

[rwill]

Bacon!

[BritScot]

2 hours ago, phetphet said:

Bats?  Was it ever proved they were the source of Covid transmission at  that Chinese market? Or still not found yet?

I think the Lab conspiracy has now become the accepted fact. It is also accepted that the origin of the parent virus was from bats but some tinkering occured before it -----'zzzxxxxcggfdssfgy@!

[Pla Simon]

3 hours ago, realfunster said:

Hmm, Kunming you say ?

 

Not very surprising, when I have watched those Aussie border control programs, both the quantity and 'exoticness' of goods found on Chinese arrivals never ceases to amaze...

 

That's a couple of bat snack stories in the last few days, I really hope this is not going to become an in-trend food option here in LoS. 

Plenty of Thais eating bat. 

 

Seasonal delicacy up here on the Cambodian border.

[2baht]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

An “Inspector Beagle” found a suspicious bag from a flight originating from Kunming. Officials opened it and found 2.5 kilograms of smoked bats, 2.5kg of smoked pork legs and 4.5kg of smoked bacon.

 

Well, well! What diseases and viruses were the filthy bats carrying???

[userabcd]

Some interesting facts about those cute little bats.

 

https://www.doi.gov/blog/13-facts-about-bats

[BangkokReady]

3 hours ago, phetphet said:

Bats?  Was it ever proved they were the source of Covid transmission at  that Chinese market? Or still not found yet?

Lab leak seems more likely.  Wet market a cover up.

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, webfact said:

An “Inspector Beagle” found a suspicious bag from a flight originating from Kunming. Officials opened it and found 2.5 kilograms of smoked bats, 2.5kg of smoked pork legs and 4.5kg of smoked bacon

One smoked tourist....

[chalawaan]

18 hours ago, Banana7 said:

Should also train the dogs for illegal narcotics, explosives, etc.

And why, do tell us, would anyone bring narcotics into Thailand via Bangkok in a suitcase, when they can bring a boat or truckload in at a thousand places on the border?

 

Yes, there are idiots from South America, but they get caught without dogs, because they're idiots. 

 

There are other breeds anyway, that find drugs and explosives better than Beagles, who specialise in edible contraband. 

 

Edited November 10, 2022 by chalawaan

[Sydebolle]

The next thing will be dogs which can detect the world famous "Wuhan" dip for smoked bats. What, on Earth, has the world become, honestly? 

[Liverpool Lou]

On 11/10/2022 at 12:41 PM, realfunster said:

Hmm, Kunming you say ?

Yes, Kunming, why the "Hmm"?   

[aussienam]

On 11/10/2022 at 12:33 PM, phetphet said:

Bats?  Was it ever proved they were the source of Covid transmission at  that Chinese market? Or still not found yet?

It will never be proven other than the SARS Coronavirus (COVID) is likely to have originated from bats in China. They carry various SARS Coronaviruses.

 

Whether COVID was from an infected bat at the Wuhan wet markets, or from a zoonotic transference of the virus from a bat to another species to human, or from a leaked sample at Wuhan laboratory (where gain of function tests on bat derived  SARS COVID viruses were being carried out) - we will probably never find out as data was removed from the lab.

 

China, not wanting to own up for the pandemic, did a good job on causing enough of a smokescreen on information with blameshifting strategies. 

 

Then of course conspiracy theories on steroids erupted and finger pointing everywhere else was attempted from both within the CCP and elsewhere from paranoid tin foil hat wearers around the world. 

 

Got to the point that people forgot about China and bickering and new conspiracy theories morphed, with wild beliefs over the virus being fake, masks being a from of government control, vaccinations killing more than the virus (some claimed as a form of population control by culling, big pharma conspiracy theories as well etc etc etc).  Interesting times and a lot of psychological studies into human behavior.  I'll be glad to never have to talk about or hear about COVID ever again in the near future.