Re: [OT]Peperoni

Gee sounds like my birth state ( __was__  home, Sigh)  - California -
"Do
you have any Citrus Fruit?"

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 23:09:03 +1100 "Alan and Carmel Brain"
<aebrain@webone.com.au> writes:
>From: "Allan Goodall" <agoodall@hyperbear.com>
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>> They see _so_ many people trying to get away with something, from 
>> something as innocuous as trying to slip in illegal pepperoni, to 
>> something serious as coming in with forged documents. 
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>That's a difference in culture. In Australia, someone coming in with
>forged documents is of relatively minor concern - at worst they're Al 
>Qaeda
>types who are out to kill at most a few thousand people.
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>But a stick of peperoni could well be carrying any number of
>foreign diseases, which could wreck a large part of our agricultural
>sector, and thus cost us billions. AQIS (the Australian Quarantine
>and Inspection Service) doesn't get too upset if an additional Kilo
>of heroin gets in, it's the produce that they're really after.
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