A woman from South Korea was caught trying to smuggle dozens of tadpoles at an airport. To hide them from airport security, she kept them in her mouth.
The woman was stopped at Guangzhou Airport, in China on March 16 after Customs officials saw a bottle of some sort of liquid in her hand luggage, according to Shanghaiist.
The woman was told to drink the contents of the bottle or throw it away, so he chose to drink it but she wouldn't swallow the liquid.
Telling her to drink the contents or throw the container away, they became suspicious when she swilled the fluid but didn't swallow. The customs officials grew suspicious and asked the woman to spit out the liquid. They were shocked to find dozens of tadpoles fall out of her mouth.
The woman told the officials that she was given the tadpoles by a friend and she didn't want to get rid of them. However despite her story, the woman was forced to carry on with her flight without the tadpoles.
This isn't the first time a person tried to smuggle some odd creatures through an airport.
On not one, but two occasions, travelers were caught trying to smuggle a large amount of dead caterpillars. Earlier this month, border officials stopped a man who had tens of thousands of dried caterpillars in his suitcase. He was stopped at Gatwick Airport and told officials that the bugs were a food source.
In September, an African traveler was caught at Switzerland's EuroAirport with 33 pounds of dead caterpillars in his luggage. When security threatened to take the bugs away, the man started eating them. He also said that they were a food source, but the security officials confiscated them.
In September, a man was bitten by a snake that he had smuggled on to an EgyptAir flight.
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