Friday

And now for something completely different:

Man fined for hiding his salami
23 December 2004,
The Australian

A SWISS student is counting the cost of hiding a sausage, after being charged under Australia's strict quarantine laws and fined $4,000 in a Perth court.

Dylan Pascal Graves, a Swiss national studying English in Western Australia, was nabbed carrying a salami at Perth International Airport in November after a routine search by Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) officers.

After declaring twice he was not carrying any food, officers found the 400 grams of salami in his luggage via an x-ray scan.

When asked why he had not declared the salami, he replied he had intended to eat it.

There’s more at the link above, but I guess that Swiss guy learned not to play "hide the salami" with those Aussies. Even though $4,000A is “only” about $3,000US... Wow, what an expensive lesson!

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