Thursday, July 27, 2006

Panda Fur Smuggling

Hey mate, you got the fur?

What fur? Shhhh

Oh, yeah. The furrbies.

Ok, it's gonna be 4 grand for these fresh panda furs.

Just 4 grand! I climbed the trees of the Brazilian forest for these animals. It wasn't easy. I got a bruise on my arm when they got wild and attacked me.

I thought pandas were nice?

I guess when you try to kill them, any animal would beat the living shit out of you no matter how cute it looks.

Guess you're right. Here's 5 grand.


Here's the real story...........

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have detained a man trying to sell the fur of a young panda -- seen as a national treasure in the country -- for about $30,000, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday.

The man, surnamed Yang, was caught when he was about to finish the 250,000 yuan ($31,310) sale in the southeastern port city of Xiamen, Xinhua said.

"The fur is 60 centimetres (24 inches) long and belonged to a panda cub," it quoted experts as saying.

Yang and his accomplice, who is wanted by police, bought the fur with 6,000 yuan seven years ago from a man in the country's southwest where most pandas live, the report said, adding police also found the pelt of a clouded leopard with Yang.

The giant panda is one of the world's most exotic and endangered species and is found only in China. An estimated 1,500 wild pandas live in isolated nature reserves in Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces.

Xinhua did not say what charges Yang would face, but poachers and smugglers of endangered animals could be jailed for more than 10 years and fined in China.

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In no way I condone panda killing. I couldn't say no to a face like that,

S&M Panda

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