One reason not to act the goat at Australian international airports

Being accidentally mistaken for a drug mule may have unintended consequences, as Australian Customs & Excise staff will mildly irradiate you and probably get to know the length of your next stool.

·         “AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION NOTICE NO. 2011/24…. The amendments will allow, with the consent of the detainee, an initial non-medical internal scan of a person to be carried out by a Customs and Border Protection officer using body scan technology that is to be prescribed in the regulations. This technology produces a computer image of a person’s internal cavities within a skeletal structure, as opposed to images of external body parts. Such images may serve to allay an officer’s suspicion that a passenger is internally concealing a suspicious substance, in which case the detainee would be released immediately from detention for internal search.”

·         “Customs and Border Protection requires the supply, installation and maintenance of an internal body scanner X-ray (Body Scanner) including provision of training and training material…. Operation of the Body Scanner Early 2012”

·         “….the scanner is only intended for searching body cavities….After the trial is completed in 2013, Customs will spend three months evaluating the body scanner's overall performance and come to a decision on whether to decommission it or procure additional scanners.”