MINNEAPOLIS – Customs agents reported belatedly that they intercepted giraffe turds in the luggage of an Iowa woman returning on an 8,200-mle flight from Kenya. The woman explained she planned to make a necklace, as she had done with moose turds from earlier travels. Agents destroyed the giraffe jewels with steam sterilization. The droppings were potential carriers of swine fever, Newcastle disease, foot and mouth disease, and swine vesicular disease the agents said. The incident was September 19 at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport.
Around your neck? The turds were resting on a towel in a sealed metal meal box.