Border Control Confiscate Live Snails From A Nigerian At Glasgow Airport.

A Nigerian had his snails seized at the Glasgow Airport recently by Border control officials ,the traveller who was  looking forward to tucking into a meal of giant snails for his dinner was left disappointed when border control confiscated them.
A group of 36 giant African land snails was seized from the Nigerian man’s luggage by Border Force officers at Glasgow Airport earlier this month.

The passenger flew into Scotland from Amsterdam with the creatures, which were still alive and measure around 15cm-long on average.

But officers swiftly took them away because live animals require an import licence, which the man did not have. 

They were passed on to a rescue organisation and the passenger was warned about the restrictions on bringing the creatures into the UK.

The snails, not native to the UK, have shells the size of a small human fist.

While they are unlikely to survive a British winter, they could pass on diseases to the indigenous snail population if released into the wild.