Japanese woman nabbed with over 50 protected animals in her luggage at airport

 

 

BANGKOK: -- A Japanese woman was arrested at Suvarnabhumi international airport on Tuesday night after airport officials found more than 50 protected animals of different species in her luggage.

 

Officials manning an X-ray machine saw the images of what look like animals inside a luggage bearing the name of Ms Maki Takahashi, a passenger of Thai Airways International’s flight TG640 bound for Tokyo.

 

The officials then alerted THAI staff to bring Ms Takahashi to see them so they could ask for the permission to open the luggage. When they opened it, they found 32 small turtles of various species, eight little monitor lizards and 15 alligator lizards.

 

When the officials asked for the permits of the animals and the Japanese woman could not produce one, so she was booked on charges of attempting to smuggle protected species out of the country without permits.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/japanese-woman-nabbed-with-over-50-protected-animals-in-her-luggage-at-airport/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-11-24

Where do I get a smuggling permit?

The reptiles were later consumed !

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I always thought the snacks on Thai airways were fine.

She was just being unlucky this time round. If she had got through she would make a lot of money selling them in Japan. Much demand there. japanese are usually well behaved and follow laws, so custom officers don't often check on them.

They are well dressed, soft spoken, always bowing to you.

She should have opened a company here to service locals in catching those reptiles from toilets, and exporting them to Japan.

She should have opened a company here to service locals in catching those reptiles from toilets, and exporting them to Japan.

I am not sure she would have got away with that upon arrival as luggages get thoroughly checked at Japanese airport with little sniffer dogs checking all bags landing on the conveyor belts unless they are sniffing for weapins or drugs only...in UK some dogs are sniffing for certain types of food like dairy products which got me once? lost my good old cheese?

How much is the fine ?

 

 

6 hours ago, madusa said:

She was just being unlucky this time round. If she had got through she would make a lot of money selling them in Japan. Much demand there. japanese are usually well behaved and follow laws, so custom officers don't often check on them.

They are well dressed, soft spoken, always bowing to you.

 

 

She certainly did it many times and is caught for the first time, if she just risk a fine I guess that she won't regret !

 

 

I know Japanese pussie,s are cute but not sure about reptiles though 

16 hours ago, seahorse said:

Where do I get a smuggling permit?

Jatujak market, there's a kiosk close to the cock-fighting arena - very helpful people...they can get you anything you can afford..

Oh  those Japanese  thieves  sure dress well  and behave  well , but

they are still thieves,  This one should spend time in an adult alligator pit

for part of her time.  She would not be so soft spoken  if she were

to lose a pinky.

Geezer

21 hours ago, kwak250 said:

I always thought the snacks on Thai airways were fine.

 

I've been served by a crocodile more than once.