Smuggling more than budgies!
 

http://en.news.maktoob.com/200900007...rt/Article.htm

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I hope he gets to spend a lot of years behind bars. Seeing as he is an Emirati, not like he is some poor chap from a poverty stricken country desperate to feed his family.

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I [don't] like the article's phrasing "fetching $5000 a piece" though - they're animals, not objects... unless you get rid of that kind of mindset, then it's always going to continue.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gall...ok-in-pictures

First class passenger. Sick b*****d. The last picture is heartbreaking.

Glad he got caught in Thailand, not so much wasta influence there.

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Hope they sedate and stick him in a little cage so he can't move!!!!

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Seems like a fair punishment to me...:thumbup:

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And then stick him in the hold for however many hours- I imagine not all of these little animals would have survived the journey. It really is a sick trade.

If they had been discovered at this end what would have happened to them?

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Better still feed him to the Mums and Dads. Looks like he might have wasta though as he has already been released on bail.

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More than likely nothing, As here they X-ray ur luggage on arrival, So i reckon he had someone at this end to get him through.

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Hope he goes to prison, but he'll more than likely get a fine and that's that.

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I am sure he will love the special treatment he receives in a Thai jail with all his special rights to halal food, prayer times and exception from anything resembling work being respected of course ;)

Why don't they invest money in modern, well equipped Zoos with well trained staff if they want to see exotic animals?

N.

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So you are a big fan of Sharia law Iran style are you? :confused:

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Well i know giving them 3 meals a day, Access to sky Tv pool tables football pitches and computer access doesn't work. So yer why not give it a bash if it puts an end to things!!

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:thumbup:

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They don't want to SEE those animals, they want to OWN them.
And well trained staff? Rofl. We had a Tiger mum and 2 cubs on the loose here for 2 days. They escaped from a "private" place, (say palace), because the Indian chap was scared shitless and left the door open while running away.

All 3 were shot by the police. No, not the Indian chap.

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It's an English word that's all..........

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/apiece

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You know this based on what? Speaking from experience I gather. Some countries have quite successfully implemented the 'luxury holiday prison model' you seem to critique, and enjoy very low rates of reoffending convicts.

But instituting the death penalty for all crimes would solve most things, I'd agree to that.

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Spent 7yrs on the force in the uk. You can throw all the statistics you want at me. But from personal experience of picking up MR X at 1845pm for robbery and hi-jacking of a bus(I kid you not) after being released on licence from H.M Finest at 10am that morning on licence. Then no i do not think that luxury jails work in the slightest. Especially when asked why he did he replied am better off back in side they feed me!!!!


And another note to add, No i do not agree on the death penalty given the huge flaws in the judicial system and the amount of wrong convictions given, A Sgt once told me. We are all only ever a 15second judgement away from being convicted. I fell foul of this am no angel. But i tell you lets make the deterrent a little better that 3meals a day free TV and other privelages. Here if you're family can't pay u don't eat. Lets give that a go in the uk. And i bet cells here aint air conditioned either!!!!!

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Agreed! Prisons should be hell-holes. People should be terrified of going to prison, it would make them think twice about committing crimes.
It's not frightening to go to prison in the UK these days, they're soft, holiday homes. Inmates are treated better than normal civilians!
If you want to deter criminals then you have to make the punishments something to be afraid of.

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Is this information sourced from the Daily Mail by any chance?