"Excuse me, sir. Do you mind if we inspect your snaggage?"
Man fined for hiding his salami
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.
Superb work from the Hun subbies, by the way.
Thank christ for our strict customs rego's this side- those Salamis are bloody dangerous mate. I've eaten one and can testify to that, could have been almost anything in one smuggled in by a Johnny Foreigner student type. The next Al-Qaeda speciality- the exploding hidden Salami appearing at an airport near you.
Posted by: Brett Pee | 24 December 2004 at 02:16
Exploding sausage - sounds like the Salami Army.
Posted by: SB | 24 December 2004 at 11:24
Or even the Salaami Army.
Posted by: Tony.T | 24 December 2004 at 11:34
Hee hee, you can be fined for hiding the salami?
What about polishing Mr.Plod's helmet ? Will that become illegal too ?
Posted by: Yorkshiresoul | 24 December 2004 at 11:54
Only in airports, Mike. In general, salami hiding encouraged. Some of our greatest Australians have done it.
Posted by: Tony.T | 24 December 2004 at 12:40
John Hyde is a homosexual MP in West Oz.
I like to call him "The Salami". As in: Hyde The Salami.
How funny am I?
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 24 December 2004 at 14:24
Very, very funny-ish.
Big, now tell me, does he live near Hyde Park? There are public toilets there, you know.
Posted by: Tony.T | 24 December 2004 at 15:33
The technical food industry description for salami is "a fermented meat product."
Which I'm sure we've all felt like some mornings after the night before.
Posted by: Nabakov | 27 December 2004 at 11:50