A Chinese couple was approached by airport staff at Guandong’s Baiyun International Airport in China after it was discovered they had hundreds of live cockroaches crawling through their luggage.
There was a white plastic bag with lots of black items moving inside,” security guard Xu Yuyu, told .“One of the staff opened their luggage and a roach crawled out of it. She almost cried.”
The officials enquired about the reason for carrying across the creepy crawlies, the husband said that the cockroaches were part of a skin treatment for his wife. “ They were part of an old folk remedy. You’d mix the roaches into some medicinal cream and put it on your skin,” he said. But he refused to elaborate on what his wife’s skin condition was.
whatever living organisms such as insects are not permitted onboard a flight. This was not the first time someone has tried carrying living things on-board.In 2011, a passenger was caught trying to carry around 240 fish of different varieties at the Los Angeles airport.Following next year reported that Egyptian couple that tried to smuggle their young boy at the Sharjah airport in a carry-bag as he was denied a visa.
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