Airline passenger fined $1.8k for undeclared McDonald\u2019s meal WIKIMEDIA: VALERIA EVERETTA passenger flying from Indonesia to Australia was fined $1,874 for an undeclared McDonald\u2019s breakfast meal. The unnamed passenger failed to declare his McDonald\u2019s meal at Darwin Airport, as a police dog sniffed out two McMuffins and a ham croissant, according to the New York Post. \u201cThis will be the most expensive Maccas meal this passenger ever has,\u201d Murray Watt, Australia\u2019s minister in agriculture, fisheries and forestry, said in a statement regarding the incident. He continued: \u201cThis fine is twice the cost of an airfare to Bali, but I have no sympathy for people who choose to disobey Australia\u2019s strict biosecurity measures, and recent detections show you will be caught.\u201d Australian government\u2019s response Government officials stated that the country has eradicated foot and mouth disease, and wants to make sure that it doesn\u2019t get brought back through undeclared meat products. The police dog who sniffed out the McDonald\u2019s meal has been specially trained as part of Australian government\u2019s recent crackdown on imported food. The crackdown\u2019s seen the government commit nearly $10 million to prosecute the illegal imports and curb the spread of the foot and mouth disease. While the incident and exorbitant fine seem bizarre, it\u2019s definitely not uncommon. Last month, an airplane passenger was fined 2,664 AUD (or around $1,844) for trying to smuggle a Subway sandwich. The TikToker, whose real name is Jessica Lee, revealed that she was fined for not checking the \u201cchicken\u201d and \u201clettuce\u201d boxes on the declarations form. She shared her story on the social media platform in hopes of warning others and quickly went viral, as people were rather amused by the incident. Even Domino\u2019s Australia commented under the video, requesting for Subway to \u201cmake this right.\u201d Luckily, she was sent a voucher from Subway for sandwiches reflecting the cost of the fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Airline passenger fined $1.8k for undeclared McDonald\u2019s meal WIKIMEDIA: VALERIA EVERETTA passenger flying from Indonesia to Australia was fined $1,874 for an undeclared McDonald\u2019s breakfast meal. The unnamed passenger failed to declare his McDonald\u2019s meal at Darwin Airport, as a police dog sniffed out two McMuffins and a ham croissant, according to the New York […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}