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Exotic disease threat in woman's undies
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 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.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/5100658
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 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.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/newshome/5100658