A woman was stopped by Customs and Border Patrol officers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport last week after she was found with giraffe poop that she planned to make into a necklace, ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal customs agents pooh-poohed the plans of an Iowa woman who wanted to make jewelry from giraffe feces she picked up on a trip to Kenya and brought back to the U.S. in her luggage.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows a small box of giraffe feces that was confiscated from a ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. A traveler had her hopes of making a necklace out of giraffe poop dashed when she tried to bring the ...

The passenger arrived at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport from Kenya on September 29, according to a news release from US Customs and Border Protection. “The passenger declared giraffe ...

American customs agents confiscated a box of giraffe feces collected in Kenya by a visiting Iowa woman, who said she planned to make jewelry out of the droppings. The U.S. Customs and Border ...

Customs agents at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport seized and destroyed a box of giraffe poop that a woman had brought to the U.S. from Kenya. The woman, from Iowa, was selected for ...

Have you ever been stopped by TSA for suspicious souvenirs? Probably not for trying to import poop into the U.S. U.S. Customs and Border Protection specialists at a Minnesota airport recently ...

No, it's not legal to transport animal poop across the U.S. border. At least without special permission. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Minnesota said they recently seized a ...

Federal customs agents pooh-poohed the plans of an Iowa woman who wanted to make jewelry from giraffe feces she picked up on a trip to Kenya and brought back to the U.S. in her luggage. The woman ...

This undated photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows a small box of giraffe feces that was confiscated from a passenger arriving from Kenya at Minneapolis-St. Paul International ...