Yeah!!! A smuggler caught...

[Stacey32]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...988458841.html

From the sydney morning herald
man who smuggled native bird eggs in his underpants has escaped a jail sentence of up to 10 years but was instead fined $25,000.

In February, Wayne Frederick Floyd pleaded guilty to exporting a regulated native specimen without a permit or exemption, an offence that carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence.

Floyd claimed he was trying to take the eggs overseas "to surprise his girlfriend", Judge Martin Sides said in the NSW District Court today.

The judge rejected his story, saying it was a premeditated and commercial venture, and that Floyd intended to sell the eggs overseas.

However, the judge did not impose a jail term, as Floyd had not taken the eggs from the wild, but produced them from the collection of birds he kept at his Box Hill home.

Floyd was about to board a flight from Sydney to Bangkok last November when a customs officer frisked him and noticed a suspicious bulge around his groin, the NSW District Court was told.

When questioned about this "inconsistency around the groin", Floyd repeatedly denied concealing anything in his pants, explaining: "I had a hernia, sometimes my testicle rises."

A strip search revealed six eggs hidden inside a stocking in his underwear, leading to his arrest for attempting to smuggle regulated native species.

The eggs were taken to Taronga Zoo.

Two never hatched but the others contained two gang gang cockatoos and two galahs.

Both bird species are listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, which includes species facing extinction unless trade in them is controlled.

A galah or cockatoo egg can fetch tens of thousands of dollars when sold overseas.

AAP

Here's a site on gang gang cockatoos. they are beautiful
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang-gang_Cockatoo