[h=1]Woman tried to ‘drink’ mouthful of tadpoles at customs[/h]inSing.com - 21 March 2013 5:26 PM | Updated 5:31 PM
It was a case of drink it or throw it – and a South Korean woman chose to drink a bottle of liquid she was carrying through customs at an airport.
Only problem was, the bottle of liquid contained live tadpoles that she was trying to smuggle.
The unidentified woman was stopped at a security checkpoint in Guangzhou’s airport in China, after customs officers noticed a bottle of liquid in her hand luggage, the UK’s Daily Mail reported.
Following international guidelines, they asked her to drink the liquid or throw the bottle away.
She chose to drink the content in one mouthful.
However, the airport guards noticed that she did not swallow the liquid and demanded that she spit the content into a bucket, Global Post reported, citing a Chinese media report.
That was when dozens of tiny tadpoles flowed out of her mouth, much to the astonishment of other passengers and guards who witnessed the incident.
When the woman was questioned, she explained that the tadpoles were given to her by a friend and she did not want to lose them.
Xinhua news agency reported that she reluctantly gave up the tadpoles after customs officers told her that trafficking wildlife was prohibited.
It was a case of drink it or throw it – and a South Korean woman chose to drink a bottle of liquid she was carrying through customs at an airport.
Only problem was, the bottle of liquid contained live tadpoles that she was trying to smuggle.
The unidentified woman was stopped at a security checkpoint in Guangzhou’s airport in China, after customs officers noticed a bottle of liquid in her hand luggage, the UK’s Daily Mail reported.
Following international guidelines, they asked her to drink the liquid or throw the bottle away.
She chose to drink the content in one mouthful.
However, the airport guards noticed that she did not swallow the liquid and demanded that she spit the content into a bucket, Global Post reported, citing a Chinese media report.
That was when dozens of tiny tadpoles flowed out of her mouth, much to the astonishment of other passengers and guards who witnessed the incident.
When the woman was questioned, she explained that the tadpoles were given to her by a friend and she did not want to lose them.
Xinhua news agency reported that she reluctantly gave up the tadpoles after customs officers told her that trafficking wildlife was prohibited.
