Mara
12-09-2008, 07:13 PM
Tip One: You can absolutely smuggle a sedated monkey on a 15-hour flight! Especially if you are named after a famous stripper... or better yet, a Broadway musical. Or better yet, a Broadway musical about a famous stripper!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28139472/
SPOKANE, Wash. - A Spokane woman who hid a sedated monkey under her blouse on a flight from Thailand to Los Angeles — pretending she was pregnant — has been convicted of smuggling charges.
Gypsy Lawson, 29, successfully passed through U.S. Customs in Los Angeles with the rhesus monkey hidden in her shirt after the November 2007 trip.
Her mother, Fran Ogren, 55, of Northport, Wash., accompanied her on the flight from Bangkok and was also convicted.
A jury found the two women guilty Monday on separate charges of conspiracy and smuggling goods into the United States. Sentencing is set for March 3.
Tip Two: Stupid People don't hang onto monkeys very long.
They were arrested after Lawson boasted to a clothing store clerk about the airport escapade.
I'd love to be the clothing store clerk who thought, "As a concerned private citizen, I really must report this to the proper monkey-smuggling authorities."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28139472/
SPOKANE, Wash. - A Spokane woman who hid a sedated monkey under her blouse on a flight from Thailand to Los Angeles — pretending she was pregnant — has been convicted of smuggling charges.
Gypsy Lawson, 29, successfully passed through U.S. Customs in Los Angeles with the rhesus monkey hidden in her shirt after the November 2007 trip.
Her mother, Fran Ogren, 55, of Northport, Wash., accompanied her on the flight from Bangkok and was also convicted.
A jury found the two women guilty Monday on separate charges of conspiracy and smuggling goods into the United States. Sentencing is set for March 3.
Tip Two: Stupid People don't hang onto monkeys very long.
They were arrested after Lawson boasted to a clothing store clerk about the airport escapade.
I'd love to be the clothing store clerk who thought, "As a concerned private citizen, I really must report this to the proper monkey-smuggling authorities."