Animal smuggler, Johnny Depp threatens to boycott Oz.

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

So you're comparing a fictional movie character's actions on film, with the real life crimes of an actor? Who then turns around and blames the country that gave him leniency on the offence allowing him to export the animals out of the country.

I don't really care about the colourful Los Angeles identity, but do find it offensive when people like that get special treatment that Aussies and other ordinary people don't.Another colourful Los Angeles identity

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I thought it was fairly obvious that my tongue was firmly in my cheek ;)

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Originally Posted by steane

Crocodile Dundee probably broke a law or two getting his "that's not a knife...this is a knife" Bowie into the US. It's just a bit of payback. We'll all survive in spite of ourselves ;)

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Crocodile Dundee was a a fictitious character played in a movie, no real knife was smuggled into USA.

But J. Depp smuggling his dogs into AUS was not fictitious , it was a REAL LIVE EVENT, you can't really compare the 2.

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Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Crocodile Dundee was a a fictitious character played in a movie, no real knife was smuggled into USA.

But J. Depp smuggling his dogs into AUS was not fictitious , it was a REAL LIVE EVENT, you can't really compare the 2.

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Really! Well you could knock me down with a feather right now. Who'd have thought that Croc Dundee wasn't real :eek: Does that mean that hot blonde he married in the movie wasn't really his wife?

I deal a bit with private jets coming direct from overseas in my work. We had one this summer that the day before arrival said they wanted to bring their little dog in to Tassie and could it be be on a fast track quarantine :confused:given they were only here for a few days.
quarantine, and the agriculture department, got quite excited about this. The answer was obviously no, but they made the point very clear, if it was on board it was to be destroyed, the captain and the operator would be fined (forget the number, but it was 5 figures).
They didn't bring the dog, no one got fined or destroyed. I'D be interested to know if the quarantine officials that cleared depps plane got into any trouble.

Thats not a dog

this is a dog

and if your in Australia get an aussie lap poodlely licky yap yap dog thing, like this

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Rabies is endemic in the US, there is a great possibility a Depp dog would have it.

Look what happened with Equine flu that came in on race horses and the damage that did to the domestic horses who had never had any contact with the virus. With all the money spent on race horses who would have thought one of them would have been infected.

After WW1 all but one of the Australian horses didn't return. The rest were donated to the Indian Army, surrended to Egyptians to live out their lives in misery or euthanised by their troopers. Australian Military dogs up to Afghanistan were never permitted to return and they have to go through quarantine before they are returned.

If the laws we had in place twenty years ago were still in place, the Depp dogs would have had to spend a year in NZ before coming to Australia.

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I was wondering who was going to bite first , well you won . I don't like little dogs , and I don't particularly like Depp , As far as I'm concerned they could have give them a jab , fined him then deported him . As I said this was turned into a circus . It's good to see how many people feel the same as I do !!.. Jim :D:D

The incident was handled clumsily , heavy handed , and not very professionally by our Government representative. Surely a sober statement pointing out our quarantine laws, followed by another straight forward explanation of the Depp's responsibilities in the matter, and finally a statement that the dogs would be placed in quarantine until the Depps' left, would have presented a much more diplomatic, and indeed mature face to the World.


Instead, it looked & sounded like something out of a Simpsons episode. Bob

i agree, the situation was not handled well, by a department that is not used to dealing with the press let alone american actors.


how ever the concerning bit is that the dogs were not spotted on arrival. was customs just Lax or did the Depps hide the dogs??

if customs were Lax then some one need a kicking there.

if the dogs were hidden ie smuggled then some one needs a kicking because then the Deppps should have been prosecuted.

i can not think of another option.