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| Exotic disease threat in woman's undies |
| 2008-10-24 |
| Bananas in pyjamas may be OK, but in undies they are not - as a woman discovered at Sydney Airport. Customs officers stopped the 56-year-old from the Czech Republic when she arrived from Samoa on Wednesday. Suspecting she was concealing something on her body, a female officer frisked her and found she was concealing three banana plants in her underpants. Quarantine officers seized the plants, which Customs say are a threat to Australia's banana industry because they can carry black sigatoka disease, fusarium wilt, or moko disease. The woman was likely to be issued a court attendance notice when investigations were completed, a Customs spokesman said. Penalties for breaching quarantine laws can result in fines of more than $66,000 or 10 years' jail. |
| Posted by:Oztralian |
| #2 Nice: most guys would appreciate being questioned "is that a banana in your pants?"...but wymyns? Ummmm |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-10-24 21:14 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Oztralian 2008-10-24 21:03 |