94KG OF DRIED CATERPILLARS
Travellers typically fret over whether to pay for extra luggage to cart home that additional holiday shopping.
But one man who travelled to the United Kingdom from Burkina Faso in February 2013 had a monumental 94kg with him.
And that was just in dried caterpillars.
UK Border Force officers detected tens of thousands of the shrink-wrapped bugs in the man’s luggage at London’s Gatwick Airport after he arrived from West Africa by way of Istanbul.
The 22-year-old claimed that they were for personal consumption as food.
He escaped with a warning, and the caterpillars were seized and sent off to be destroyed.
“This was an unusual seizure, but the vigilance of our officers has stopped these dried insects from entering the UK, and possibly posing a risk to our food chain,” an official said at the time.
“I would warn travellers not to attempt to bring any products of animal origin into the UK without a permit, as they may not have been inspected to appropriate standards and may contain diseases.”
200 LIVE TARANTULAS
A magnet or a keychain would usually suffice for most travellers when it comes to souvenirs, but that simply wasn’t enough for one German couple to remember their holiday in Peru back in 2012.
According to AFP, the pair were caught at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport with 200 live tarantulas along with grasshoppers, crickets and millipedes.
The creepy-crawlies were transported in plastic containers and tubes hidden amongst the couples’ clothes and shoes.
A criminal case was opened against the couple, while their unconventional keepsakes were handed over to animal welfare authorities.
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