Vietnamese man with rhino horn arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport

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Vietnamese man with rhino horn arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport

By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Officials at Suvarnabhumi Airport's wildlife checkpoint apprehended a Vietnamese passenger who was bound for Luang Prabang in northern Laos along with a rhino horn which had been cut into five pieces on Tuesday afternoon. 

Vietnamese national Foong Ngab Ha, travelled from Angola and stopped for transit at Dubai and Bangkok before continuing to Luang Prabang. 

 

Officials questioned and searched the man at Suvarnabhumi Airport after an X-ray machine detected items suspected to be rhino horn parts in his two bags. They found the large rhino horn cut into five pieces.

 

The passenger was charged with violating the Wildlife Preservation and Protection Act, the Customs Act and the Animal Epidemics Act and was handed over to Suvarnabhumi Airport Police for further legal actions.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30323400

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-08-10

[jaywalker]

They probably thought it was a sex toy.

[steven100]

That rhino is probably dead because of this kind of thing.  He should receive the full extent of the law .....  penalties should be much harsher

  This type of black market trade is sickening if you seen what they do to Samaritan tigers.   

[hugh2121]

Put him down!

[ratcatcher]

6 hours ago, steven100 said:

That rhino is probably dead because of this kind of thing.  He should receive the full extent of the law .....  penalties should be much harsher

  This type of black market trade is sickening if you seen what they do to Samaritan tigers.   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatran_tiger

[ratcatcher]

9 minutes ago, hugh2121 said:

Put him down!

Humanely?

[jaywalker]

2 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatran_tiger

You grammar cop you! I sentence you to 90 years hard labor!

 

I was wondering if they had Tigers in Samaria???

 

Thanks.

Edited August 10, 2017 by jaywalker

[tryasimight]

8 hours ago, steven100 said:

That rhino is probably dead because of this kind of thing.  He should receive the full extent of the law .....  penalties should be much harsher

  This type of black market trade is sickening if you seen what they do to Samaritan tigers.   

Fair chance I reckon. You ever tried sawing the horn off a live Rhino? They do tend to get a little restless at that point.

[tryasimight]

8 hours ago, steven100 said:

That rhino is probably dead because of this kind of thing.  He should receive the full extent of the law .....  penalties should be much harsher

  This type of black market trade is sickening if you seen what they do to Samaritan tigers.   

Or the Mormon Tigers and they really give it to the Jehovahs Witness tigers.

[DM07]

Vietnamese man with rhino horn arrested at ...

 

I thought, I was in for a biological freak show!

[bberrythailand]

So how much did he have to pay before going home...

 

 

[hugh2121]

17 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

Humanely?

Why humanely? Put him in an enclosure with an angry rhino.

[ratcatcher]

2 minutes ago, hugh2121 said:

Why humanely? Put him in an enclosure with an angry rhino.

That is what I was asking you.  The clue was the ? 

It was a rhetorical question which you seem to have answered.