Is that a bunch of bologna in your pocket.....

or are you just really happy to be in the United States?

From the Savannah Morning News:

Border agents have beef with smuggled bologna

WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department has a major beef with
845 pounds of bologna thaty a Mexican immagrant tried to smuggle into the country.

Border agents found the pork-based meat in suitcases on a bus stopped April 4 at a checkpoint north of Las Cruces, N.M.

Though the U.S. Agriculture Department has approved Mexican bologna imports, the meat nabbed in New Mexico was not refrigerated and was vunerable to health risks such as Classic Swine Fever, officials said Monday.

Agriculture specialists with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection destoyerd the bologna. The agency is part of the Homeland Security Department.

In case you think this is a joke, it was also reported on NPR this morning. And in doing a quick google, apparently this isn't the first time someone has tried to bring home the bologna, so to speak.

A couple of questions come to mind, straight-away.

1. WTF?!?!
2. What's so damn good about Mexican bologna?
3. If fried bologna (albeit American) smells so rank, how did no one on the bus notice nearly half a ton of the stuff stinking up the joint?
4. Not that I really need to know but just how exactly do you 'destroy' this much processed meat?


Wow.