Is this banana?
A Mystake Simply Travel is likely to cost a man too.
Dylan O’byrne, a New Jersey locally residing in Nashville, was returning from a trip to Southeast Asia when he accidentally regulated customs regulations by bringing a suspicious article – but forbidden.
His flight from Singapore landed at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, where he passed through customs and was asked if there was an item to declare. At that time, he said “no”.
“I never buy anything on trips – maybe like a trinket or two for friends, but not nothing I would declare” and we go on, “he said in a viral tick with over 828,000 views.
Then, they went to demand for luggage. O’byrne and his parents were “tired” and thrilled to return to the states, just to stop by border patrol agents as they tried to call a Uber.
O’byrne remembered the police dogs by smelling about his luggage and the officers asking if he brought anything “forbidden”. After the constant denial of the family, the dog sat next to the O’byrne bag.
“I’m like, ‘Could what could this dog have found?” “He said.
“A banana.”
The officer did not need to ask much for the smuggled fruits – he was sitting right on the top of the O’byrne bag. He forgot that he grabbed the banana in the airport hall during his vacation in Germany to escape as a snack.
The border patrol agents confirmed that it was his before scanning his passport and informing him that he was likely to face “a penalty”.
“I’m like,” are they serious? They are joking, right? “No, they are not joking.”
“I entered it, and even a banana can stop you from the global entrance and a $ 500 fine,” he added.
On the posting date last month, O’byrne did not know if he would actually face a punishment for the banned item in the US Posting has contacted him for comment.
“I crashed rightly. I know what it can and can’t be brought to the borders – I have traveled my whole life, visited over 20 places and explored all 50 countries completely. But the way it was treated that hit me as strange,” he told Newsweek.
According to the US Department of Agriculture, the US prohibits most of the agricultural products from entering the second place at the risk of pests and diseases that may affect the environment in the countries.
Customs spokesman and US border protection Anthony Bucci told the publication that while the agency cannot discuss the details of individuals’ inspections, “all agricultural articles must be declared” and forbidden items to be confiscated.
“Most importantly, civil penalties can deal with the failure to declare prohibited agricultural products and can go up to $ 1,000 for the first time violation for non-commercial quantities,” Bucci said. “If the items are determined to be for commercial use, violations will be assessed at a very high rate.”
According to the CBP website, those allowed fruits and vegetables in the US “depends on a number of factors”, citing an example in the 1980s when some of the contacted fruits created again in the SHBA spreads an outbreak of fruit flies that cost millions in clear.
The site also warns the passengers that failure to do decultural items will result in a $ 300 at last for the first bids, while a second violation will receive a $ 500 sentence.
“Sometimes travel for 42 hours, sleep less than 6, and you forget,” O’byrne said in comments.
Tiktokers were quick to inform him that it is, in fact, a “serious violation”, while others said “could see completely” how this could happen by innocently introducing a piece of fruit at the airport.
“Fruits, vegetables, flowers, etc., can keep errors or disseasses that can affect our agriculture,” one person commented.
“Almost like [they] I tell you 100 times not to bring fruit before you land, ”another was pleaded.
“It just happened to a friend of mine for an orange,” someone else said, claiming the person paid $ 1,000 in fines.
“If you are the type of person you can’t remember what they have or what is/is not always allowed to declare,” one user warned. “You can declare snacks and then they will ask the following questions and check your bag.”
But O’byrne called on lawmakers and regulators to “consider the distinction between an honest error and a deliberate attempt to bypass the border regulations”.
“The laws that protect our boundaries are essential, but it is applying them with justice and disco,” he told Newsweek.
“I fully respect the need for border security, but I also hope that there is room for common sense of how the sentences are implemented. The laws intended to protect our nation must focus on real threats, not travelers who make a small, unintentional mistake after 40 hours in transit.”
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