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Man fined for smuggling eggs in underpants
Tuesday, 18 July 2006
An Australian man caught with six eggs from endangered species in his underwear as he was preparing to fly to Bangkok was fined $20,000 on Monday.
Wayne Floyd said he intended "to surprise his girlfriend" with the eggs as a gift, but Judge Martin Sides ruled that Floyd had intended to sell the eggs overseas, it was reported.
He was strip searched by security when a pat-down revealed a suspicious bulge in his groin.
Although the offence carries a maximum sentence of 10 years, the Judge didn‘t send Floyd to jail because the eggs had come from a collection of birds at Floyd‘s home and not from the wild.
Two gang cockatoos and two galahs hatched from the eggs when they were taken to a zoo.
