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SINGAPORE : A woman was fined $3,000 for trying to bring in two roast geese from China, and refusing to hand them over to the authorities.

The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority said Tan Chai Peng was stopped at Changi Airport's Terminal 2 on September 30 and told to surrender the birds for disposal because she did not have a licence to bring them in.

She refused to hand the geese over and threw them on the floor instead.

She was fined $3,000 for obstructing Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers in the execution of their duties.

And another charge of importing two roast geese from China was also taken into consideration in sentencing.

Under Singapore laws, a licence and a permit are required before importing meat and meat products into Singapore.

Travellers are allowed to bring in small quantities of meat for personal consumption, but this must be limited to 5 kilogrammes per person and come from a country approved by the AVA.

Beef, mutton, pork and poultry in any form cannot be brought in from Malaysia, Thailand, China, Indonesia and India. - CNA/

This was taken from Channelnewsasia.com and i found it rather amusing. In certain sense, i found da lady rather silly. I really don't know what went through her mind at that time. Perhaps ego had overriden what is rational. I may not know the cost of those geese but what thing for sure, there ought to be a damn BLOODY good reason going against the law, paying $3000 for a pair of geese and not consuming them. Golden eggs? Fun? god knows. She even became defiant and threw the geese on the floor.

Human beings can be so complexed. I know. I've seen many. Stubborn ones, crazy ones, those who continued skydiving even though they nearly died, those who just love to colour coordinate for god knows why and why some people just hate each other for reasons none of us can comprehend. Each and everyone of us is different. That, we can't deny. But nevertheless, everybody should have a common amount of rationality within us.

I don't even know why i'm bloggin this. Seriously. I just found it dumb to go against the law much further after knowing that you are already in the wrong. But as always, i give people the benefit of the doubt to the lady for maybe, MAYBE, there is a certain reason why she did it and nobody knows what that reason truly is.

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