Someone knows about a bad cyclone season coming
Oct 24th 2008, 6:15 am
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Someone knows about a bad cyclone season coming
She must have heard about the banana shortage after Cyclone Larry in 2006 and wants to have her own supply.
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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 today.
Penalties for breaching quarantine laws can result in fines of more than $66,000 or 10 years' jail.
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 today.
Penalties for breaching quarantine laws can result in fines of more than $66,000 or 10 years' jail.
Oct 24th 2008, 8:08 am
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Re: Someone knows about a bad cyclone season coming
She must have heard about the banana shortage after Cyclone Larry in 2006 and wants to have her own supply.
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http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...003402,00.html
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http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...003402,00.html
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 today.
Penalties for breaching quarantine laws can result in fines of more than $66,000 or 10 years' jail.
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 today.
Penalties for breaching quarantine laws can result in fines of more than $66,000 or 10 years' jail.
Last edited by Pollyana; Oct 24th 2008 at 9:57 am.
Oct 24th 2008, 9:59 am
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Oct 24th 2008, 10:29 am
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Re: Someone knows about a bad cyclone season coming
That's a really fanny story. Should have leaft them behind, etc.
Oct 24th 2008, 10:48 am
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Re: Someone knows about a bad cyclone season coming
Look at the bright side.
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Oct 24th 2008, 11:06 am
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Re: Someone knows about a bad cyclone season coming
Getting through customs was always going to be a potential banana skin.
