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Speaker 1: This is gem Nation with Jonesy.

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Speaker 2: A traveler has learned the hard way what happens when

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Speaker 2: you bring food into Australia take it away.

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Speaker 3: Georgie, Australia's crackdown on foot and mouth disease has flushed

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Speaker 3: out immediate results. Zinter the sniffer dog made a meal

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Speaker 3: of a returning traveler's contraband McDonald's at Darwin Airport. Two

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Speaker 3: egg and sausage mcmuffins, hot cakes and a ham croissant

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Speaker 3: were detected in a suitcase of a passenger coming back

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Speaker 3: from Bali. He was fined more than two and a

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Speaker 3: half thousand dollars while the food was seized, tested for

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Speaker 3: foot and mouth and destroyed and destroyed.

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Speaker 4: The fine is twice the cost of the airfeir to Bali. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: so just perving macas in your bag? I know it's

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Speaker 4: foot and mouth, but you think it leaves some macas

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Speaker 4: in the body of your bag a little bit of

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Speaker 4: a sandwich? Who cares twice the cost of an airfield?

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Speaker 1: I don't understand. It's two sausage and egg mcmuffins, the.

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Speaker 2: Hot cake, and as Georgie says, quiss on in there,

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Speaker 2: that's a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of food, a lot of food to forget. You've got

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Speaker 1: how do you forget that?

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Speaker 4: And why don't they give it to the dogs?

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Speaker 1: Destroyed and destroyed that.

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Speaker 2: But there's a candlelight vigil about that food that was

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Speaker 2: destroyed because it's got a half life of a thousand years,

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Speaker 2: you know, so I could have lived forever.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes, you know, you have the big smugglers, you have

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Speaker 4: your mister whatever, your mister Biggs, mister Biggs. But then

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Speaker 4: you have your your petty smugglers. You know, people like

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Speaker 4: us who don't even.

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Speaker 1: Know incidental smuggling.

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Speaker 4: All people that just think, oh, you know, like Boo

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Speaker 4: and Pistol, remember when they were smuggling in.

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Speaker 1: That's right, two little dogs. What have happened to those two?

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Speaker 1: They were a great cat.

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Speaker 4: I think they've retired together somewhere, living next door to

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Speaker 4: Scott and Charlie. I've got a friend who was driving

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Speaker 4: to South Australia with his family and I think they

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Speaker 4: had some lemons in the bag and they knew you're

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Speaker 4: not supposed to take food over it, but they thought

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Speaker 4: because of the fruit flow, they kind of thought, oh

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Speaker 4: look what it was driving lemon and their son had

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Speaker 4: overheard the conversation and got very anxious in the back

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Speaker 4: of the car. And when they drove over the border,

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Speaker 4: he got it, we've got a levera.

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Speaker 1: What they just drove over to the porter and we've

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Speaker 1: got a loan.

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Speaker 4: He was so anxious.

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Speaker 2: When I was living, I was working here, my family

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Speaker 2: were living in Brisbane because Helen had to finish UNI.

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Speaker 1: No trouble or anything like that.

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Speaker 4: So how long ago this wasn't a ws.

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Speaker 2: No, this is like twenty years, ok. And so I

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Speaker 2: would fly up every every other weekend. And as I

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Speaker 2: was leaving, because I was I was living with Mum

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Speaker 2: and dad here and as I was leaving Mum's little Brendan,

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Speaker 2: I've packed some things for Helen in your bag and

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Speaker 2: okay whatever. So I've got to the airport put the back.

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Speaker 2: This is pre September.

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Speaker 4: One of those people who said I didn't pack it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gone through the thing. And the guy says,

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Speaker 2: excuse me, mate, can you come over here please? And

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Speaker 2: I went, yeah, sure, and he said did you pack

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Speaker 2: your bag? And I went yes, And then I went

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Speaker 2: and then I just thought about my mother. I've put

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Speaker 2: some things in your bed, so.

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Speaker 1: Well, actually, what would they be?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's what I said. I said, no, mate, I haven't.

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Speaker 2: I didn't why mom?

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Speaker 1: And at that stage I'm in my thirties.

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Speaker 4: Just some crusts.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my mom might have put some stuff. Why what's

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Speaker 2: the matter. And then there's a ninety sitting, you know,

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Speaker 2: out spread out of that.

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Speaker 4: We're going to pull you over for having girls clothing.

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Speaker 2: And he said, can you explain this? And I said well,

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Speaker 2: and then he pulls out a pair of garden she.

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Speaker 1: For the garden, put them in.

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Speaker 4: A bag even before September eleven.

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Speaker 1: You know that's bad.

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Speaker 2: But the guy said to me, he said, you know,

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Speaker 2: and I said, look, and I explained the situation. So

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Speaker 2: my mother packed the bag the nineties for my wife,

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Speaker 2: and she isn't for the garden.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, you know.

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Speaker 2: Its mate put her all back in the bag and

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Speaker 2: said just be careful in future.

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Speaker 1: And I was allowed to take that onto the place.

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Speaker 4: Isn't it funny? Before September eleven, I remember going to

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Speaker 4: Hong Kong with mom and dad and my brother hadn't gone,

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Speaker 4: and they brought him a cricket bat and we just

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Speaker 4: took the cricket bat on board to put in the

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Speaker 4: over head luggage and the flight attend said I don't

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Speaker 4: think you can have that here, and we said.

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Speaker 1: Well why not, why not? Never could the matter with

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Speaker 1: cricket fat it's not a weapon. They can't take anything

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Speaker 1: on the plane.