Men Try To Sneak Raw Chickens Through IAD Customs Facility

[Initech]

The passenger from Vietnam didn’t speak English. And U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Dulles International Airport say they could not immediately find a translator. So they let the contents of the traveler’s luggage speak for itself and ran it through an X-ray machine.

That’s when they spotted the chickens, 20 of them, packed in Ziploc bags and tucked inside a cooler.

A few drumsticks tucked inside a carry-on is nothing new to customs agents, who have found live chameleons and bongs disguised as Christmas ornaments. The surprise came when they opened the cooler and were confronted with poultry unlike anything this side of Frank Perdue.

The meat was the color of a bruise, a dark, blueish-gray. The very sight of it had some people reflexively clutching their abdomens. That combined with its provenance also raised fears of avian flu, which has recently sickened people in China, and claimed the lives of more than 20.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/us-customs-seizes-20-raw-chinese-silkie-chickens-at-dulles-airport/2013/05/02/56df055e-b338-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Yuk.

Seriously.

Someone should inform them that we have chickens here, too.

[MADem]

2. Disgusting! nt

[mainer]

3. Silkie chicken meat is indeed blue

I've eaten it.

[GentryDixon]

4. We had Japanese Silkies as pets

when I was a child. Funny thing, we lived on an Army base, so I am not sure how my Dad pulled that off. They were very pretty, and they were "silkie".