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Police arrested a Ukrainian woman at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport yesterday after airport security found 116 live tortoises in her luggage. The woman smuggled the protected wildlife on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Bangkok, transiting in Adidas Ababa in Ethiopia along the way. Yesterday at 2:40pm, Chief of the Wildlife Checkpoint at Suvarnabhumi Airport Sathon Kong-ngern reported that police arrested Olga Kryshtopa of Ukrainian nationality after X-raying her luggage and finding 116 live tortoises. Airport officials discovered 14 radiated tortoises, 98 African pancake tortoises and 4 Aldabra giant tortoises stuffed into her suitcases. The tortoises, […]

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Lenny Kravitz

14 hours ago, Thaiger said:

police arrested Olga Kryshtopa of Ukrainian nationality after X-raying her luggage and finding 116 live tortoises.
Airport officials discovered 14 radiated tortoises,

Were the 14 tortoises radiated due to being X-rayed?

It seems that reptiles need to give her a wide berth.
In fact this Lenny Kravitz song springs (well crawls) to mind:  'Ukrainian woman, stay away from me.'

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