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US Customs officials seize giraffe feces from woman at Minnesota airport

apnews.com US Customs officials seize giraffe feces from woman at Minnesota airport

Federal customs agents pooh-poohed the plans of a Iowa woman who wanted to make jewelry from giraffe feces she picked up on a trip to Kenya and brought back to the U.S. in her luggage.

Federal customs agents pooh-poohed the plans of an Iowa woman who wanted to make jewelry from giraffe feces she picked up on a trip to Kenya and brought back to the U.S. in her luggage.

The woman declared the small box of feces when she was selected to have her belongings inspected upon arriving at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Airport on Sept. 29, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The woman, who was not identified, told officials she planned to use the waste to make a necklace, as she had done in the past with moose poop.

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Giraffe poop can be brought back to the U.S. with the proper permits and inspections, according to Minnesota Public Radio. The station reported that the woman won’t face sanctions because she declared the feces and gave it to Customs.
I would not have guessed that there is already a process. Therefore, this is not the first time someone has brought Giraffe waste into the country. Interesting.
- I wouldn’t be surprised if the initial purveyor of poo was a researcher, because they are always hauling weird shit around. I was once asked why I was carrying around 40 toothbrushes and when I responded with “for fish stuff”, the looks only turned more confused. I can only imagine being a well-traveled researcher trying to return through customs with my latest batch of study materials.
  
  But now I gotta ask. Why do you need 40 toothbrushes for fish stuff??
  
  I once heard of someone being stopped for carrying a container labeled "bee genitalia".

The agency’s agriculture specialists destroyed the giraffe poop.
How was work today?

This lady must have been higher than a giraffe's asshole.

"What is this shit?!"
"Giraffe, sir."

This isn't quite as crazy as it sounds. Mythbusters did an episode years ago to prove that you.can actually "polish a turd", testing with various species of poop. If memory serves, Lion was the shiniest of the bunch. I don't recall if giraffe was on there but maybe she's onto something...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJ9fy1qSFI
- Just because you can doesn't mean you should
  
  No argument there!

Nothing in this story makes a lick of sense. I think I'm going back to bed.
- Definitely don't want to lick it.
- Daily mood

Oddity aside, certainly she could have sourced this closer to home, right?
- Absofuckinlutely. Her neighbour has 3 giraffes
  
  Those kids are just gangly.

I feel this is a violation of her 2A rights to be armed with giraffe feces.

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