Flier caught in India with monkey in his pants: Report
The man, who was detained along with two other travellers, had arrived from Bangkok and was about to take a connecting flight to Dubai on Jet Airways, the Press Trust of India reported.
Personnel at the airport found the seven-inch (17-centimetre) loris, a type of monkey native to India and southeast Asia, “in one of the passengers’ underwear during the security check,” PTI said.
Another loris was discovered in a dustbin at the Indira Gandhi International airport.
“They had abandoned him as they were unable to carry him,” a senior security official told the news agency.
The passengers, named as Hamad Al-Dhaheri, Mohammed Al-Shamsi and Rashid Al-Shamsi, were handed over to Wildlife and Customs Department for further questioning and were later arrested by customs police.
Authorities were trying to determine the exact origin of the monkeys.
Customs officials recently caught an Indian man at Mumbai’s main airport with 10 turtles in his underwear, which he was trying to smuggle into the city from Bangkok, the Hindustan Times reported last week.
They also seized six Persian cats, three poisonous tarantula spiders and 11 birds eggs from the man and his two accomplices, the report said.
The newspaper quoted a customs official saying the men were fined and sent back to Bangkok with the protected species and eggs they were trying to smuggle.
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I hope he ask the security staff to play with his monkey
The picture used is totally that of a monkey...
I cannot forget to laugh at an incidence I have personally seen at the Bombay (it was Bombay then) airport in the 70's. The customs officials had detained a group of Arab woman in Burqa. They were questioning one woman and asking her what she was hiding under Burqa. She initially denied and later when a female officer was brought to search her, she confessed that she has nothing but a Thotha (Parrot) hidden inside. She had the parrot in a small cage. At that time terrorism was not an issue and everyone at the airport were laughing. To make it worse, the male member of her group could not even produce the passport of any of its members. They had put it in their luggage which was already on its way to the aircraft. This group knew little Hindi and could not speak any other language other than Arabic. I think the Arabs like to keep Parrots in their homes.
lol the term spanking a monkey get got funnier :d
soory i had to make this joke :d
PS i do feel bad for the monkey though :(
wish the animal had its revenge.
Poor moneky. Imagine thhe trauma he must have been through. Hopefully the Indians will relase the monkey soon.
I wish the monkey would have bitten off more than it could chew
This raises several, uncomfortable questions.