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A tourist's bulging pants aroused suspicion as he passed through airport security before officials spotted he was smuggling two otters.
The cheeky traveller had also concealed a prairie dog, a relative of the squirrel, but officers did not find his nuts. Guards raised concerns about the unusually large package wobbling below the man’s waist and alerted colleagues at the X-ray machines.
They then held the man for lengthy scans, which showed the mammals wriggling around his designer boxer shorts. The protected wildlife had been stuffed in three separate stockings taped to the man's pants.
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Cops arrested the Taiwanese holidaymaker, 22, who had crammed the exotic animals bought from a market in Bangkok into his underwear before checking in at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport on Tuesday.
Customs Department spokesman Phanthong Loykulnant said: “Thailand is not a gateway to smuggle exotic animals out of the country. We will catch anyone who tries to take animals on planes.”
Thailand is a major transit hub for the illegal wildlife trade, with smugglers often transporting live animals to nearby China.
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The arrest comes just two months after a woman successfully smuggled an otter, rat and other animals through the same airport on October 4. Chaos broke out mid air when the creatures escaped sparking mayhem among screaming passengers onboard the Airbus A320 flying from Bangkok to Taiwan.
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A box of 28 live turtles was also found when police searched the plane upon landing in Taipei following the three-hour and 45-minute low-cost flight. Bungling airport chiefs later admitted that security staff noticed live animals in the passenger's hand luggage but waved through the bags on the conveyor belt.
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They later suspended the employee. Other passengers have tried more upfront approaches to transporting their animals.
A woman was banned from taking her large "emotional-support peacock" on board a United Airlines flight.
She offered to buy the bird its own plane ticket but the airline refused the bird at Newark airport in New Jersey, saying it did not meet guidelines due to its weight and size.
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