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Cooked monkeys in suitcases at Logan
By adamg on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:35pm
Channel 4 reports on efforts by inspectors at Logan Airport to keep people from bringing banned agricultural and food products into the country in their luggage, including chilled monkey brains cooked monkeys:
Shortsleeve asked, "So you've actually had someone bring in a cooked monkey before?"
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If you bring in monkey brains
Then your goose is cooked!
Pick up or delivery?
Tastes like chicken.
Ok...
"Ready in ten meeny."
Oh, Mrs. Peacock?
I hope their profiling matrix has been updated to watch for middle-aged women wearing fox stoles.
Shortsleeve forgot to ask
if they were also finding greasy grimy gopher guts and little birdies' dirty feet
Nice . . .
. . . In any mention of eating monkeys I think it is a rule that "chilled monkey brains" from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom must be referenced.
Not as nice...
...or you can reference "Faces of Death" but that's just nasty.
Yeah . . .
. . . I grew up watching some pretty graphic horror flicks like "Evil Dead" and a whole slew of slasher flicks - but something stopped me from ever renting or wanting to watch "faces of death". I think I heard about the monkey part in that movie and had no desire to see it. Nowadays my tolerance level for cinematic violence is very low. Watched 10 minutes of "Hostel" and that was enough.
Customs is doing a tough and hugely important job.
Before I spent some time working with the customs folks at Logan, I will admit that I had a bit of the common view that customs unnecessarily harrassed citizens coming back from business trips and vacations.
I'm here to tell you, based on my experience working with them, and after seeing the unbelievable shit that people (including, and mostly, our own citizens) try to bring back into the country, that these people are doing an important job and doing it pretty well.
People just don't realize the huge amount of damage that can result from importation of products which contain pests. Just ask anyone in or around Worcester who has had to cut down all of their trees becuase of the Asian Longhorned Beetle. Ask anyone in agriculture in California about the Mediterranean Fruit Fly.
The Asian Longhorned Beetle
The Asian Longhorned Beetle probably came over in a wooden pallet in a large ship. Not in the box of strawberries I bought from a farm stand in Quebec, or the cheese I bought in a shop in Paris.
Yeah, but be careful with those grapes
Woman finds black widow spider in grapes.
Spiders in grapes
That spider-in-the-grapes urban legend has been around for years.
I have, however, noticed some little fleas in grapes that I've purchased.
No urban legend
That's a link to a news story from a local newspaper about a woman in Weston who bought some grapes at the Natick Stop & Shop. Complete with some amusing quotes.
*probably*
*probably*
You forgot to mention one more epidemic...
Ask the people in Australia about Bullfrogs.