Customs brokers at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport seized and destroyed a field of giraffe poop after a girl introduced the ~dropping~ to the U.S. from Kenya. Based on U.S. Buyer and Border Safety, the Iowa girl was chosen for inspection on September 29 by agriculture specialists from the customs company.

She advised them she was within the possession of giraffe poopy, although she most likely mentioned it in a extra elegant manner. Anyway, her grand plan was to make use of the crap to make a necklace. She even mentioned that she had used moose poop to make jewellery previously. C’mon now, brother.

Based on CBP, the doodoo was destroyed with steam sterilization in accordance with the United States Division of Agriculture destruction protocol.

The small field appears to comprise about 14 droppings and that one bizarre ass wanting factor within the center. It makes me uncomfortable. They aren’t precisely, massive as CBP was variety sufficient to offer a brown Sharpie for scale. Thanks, fellas.

“There’s a actual hazard with bringing fecal matter into the U.S.,” LaFonda D. Sutton-Burke, CBP’s Chicago subject director, mentioned in a press release. “If this individual had entered the U.S. and had not declared this stuff, there’s a excessive chance an individual may have contracted a illness from this jewellery and developed a severe well being subject.”

The company says Kenya is at present being impacted by African swine fever, classical swine fever, Newcastle illness, foot and mouth illness, and swine vesicular illness. Can these issues be carried in giraffe poopy? Who’s to say? However one thing undoubtedly could possibly be. CBP says persons are allowed to deliver again animal dung so long as they receive a Veterinary Service Allow.

The girl who began this entire scenario is not going to face any sanctions as a result of she declared the poopoo to the federal government and surrendered it to customs officers. If she didn’t do this – and simply snuck the shit previous brokers on the airport – she may have confronted a penalty between $300 and $1,000. It will have been a small worth to pay for crap jewellery.