A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) K-9 unit at Boston’s Logan Airport thwarted an attempt to illegally import four dehydrated monkey corpses, the agency announced Friday.
According to the CBP, an individual returning to the U.S. on a flight from Paris after a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo was sniffed out during a preliminary baggage screening by the CBP K-9 “Buddey” on Jan. 8.
When questioned about the contents of the bag, the individual declared that it only contained dried fish, CBP said.
Upon a search of the luggage, a CBP officer discovered the dead and dehydrated bodies of four monkeys.
CBP said the monkeys were what is referred to in some areas of the world as “bushmeat,” raw or minimally processed meat from wild animals that cannot be legally imported into the U.S.
The CBP officers immediately contacted the Center for Disease Control (CDC), who requested that the primate material be either destroyed or returned to France.
The four kilograms of monkey bushmeat was detained for CDC and marked for destruction, CBP said.
“The potential dangers posed by bringing bushmeat into the United States are real,” Julio Caravia, Area Port Director for CBP Boston, said Friday.
“Bushmeat can carry germs that can cause illness, including the Ebola virus. The work of CBP’s K9 unit and Agricultural Specialist were vital in preventing this potential danger from entering the U.S.,” Caravia added.
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Nasty! Isn’t diversity wonderful?
“Mummified monkey meat” sounds like the current resident of the White House.
Watch out the inspector will be sent to the Texas boarder.
Or was it gift for the leftie mayor of Boston?
The Maine Wire is the 21st century version of the 1981 Lee Atwater racist dog whistle strategy. Unfortunately for Lee he came down with brain cancer and for the last months of his life in fear of going to hell he cried and begged for forgiveness for creating what he knew was a hateful despicable brand of politics that we see here today. Here is a bit of his strategy but you can see it all on you tube. You might as well know your history. Ivy League Steve and his sidekick Eddie Munster the African boy will never tell you!🤣. …. “the way Republicans never suffer the consequences for turning electoral politics into a cesspool, a kind of smoking gun. The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves:
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.” Or you post pictures of bushmeat!🤣
What could go wrong?