Customs officers did not allow an American woman to smuggle giraffe poop (3 photos)

The dangerous cargo was detained at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport in Minnesota.





The customs officers were somewhat taken aback when they discovered several dry poops in an inconspicuous box. The owner of the box confidently stated that these were traces of the giraffe’s life and she needed them to create a necklace. And she brought them from Kenya. The woman made a similar “decoration” from elk poop.



The woman honestly declared the strange cargo, but did not take into account one thing: according to the law, poop from exotic animals can be imported into the United States only after all sorts of examinations have been carried out, since feces may contain harmful microbes. And since there was no examination for these poops, they were mercilessly destroyed. Well, the lover of “shitty jewelry” was left without a new necklace.



LaFonda D. Sutton-Burke, field director for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, states that "there is a real danger of feces being brought into the United States. If this person were to enter the United States and fail to declare these items, there is a high probability that the person could have contracted the disease from “Because of this jewelry, he developed serious health problems.”

African swine fever, classical swine fever, Newcastle disease, foot-and-mouth disease and swine vesicular disease are among the diseases in Kenya that customs officials have described as dangerous.