It only takes a certain few smart asses to mess things up for everybody else. Case in point: Smugglers ignoring poultry peril.
The Customs and Excise Department seized 82kg of illicit poultry meat and two live chickens at the border in the first five days of this month alone. To prevent bird flu from spreading to the SAR, customs has stepped up surveillance along the border since October, in an assignment ironically codenamed Operation Eagle.
Are mainland chickens, ducks and geese replacing civet cats, bear gallbladders and monkey brains as the most popular black-market delicacies? Is a couple of sneezing chickens really worth causing the customs to tighten its surveillance, and making it more risky for the rest of us who only ever wanted to sneak in a couple of pirated DVDs?
Mainland chickens must cost next to nothing for people to go through the trouble of taking them on three-hour train rides. Child labor on farms, and fodders comprising wood shavings and pig feces, a rough calculation tells me a mainland chicken costs just a little more than a mainland egg.
As customs officers continue confiscating sneezing chickens hidden in fake LV bags, here sits our city, helpless, waiting for an epidemic to kick in.
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