Sophisticated methods of smuggling Prepared by Roman Ternovykh
Preface When you combine contraband, poverty, desperation and lots of spare time, you get the bizarre world of the smuggler. Everything from cocaine to human beings is waiting to cross tight borders into lands where they're not welcome. And wherever you find them, you find an army of smugglers using every ounce of their creativity to get them through. Also, it appears quite a few of them are insane.
#6 Mini Subs Smuggling drugs in completely safe factorymade vehicles is for cowards. Real smugglers climb into leaky, rusty homemade submarines to bootleg their cocaine. These things aren't just a couple of steel drums welded together, though. They've found subs in Colombia and Mexico big enough to carry up to 11 tons of drugs. The cops seized a partiallybuilt sub that had hydraulic tubing, a protected propeller, a double hull and the ability to dive below 300 feet. It makes mom's attempts to smuggle opium in her wooden leg look sad by comparison.
#5 Smuggling of humans A few years ago, customs officials at the US -Mexico border stopped a car and requested to see the registration. Being trained in the fine arts of observations, officials noticed something suspicious: a fully grown, 135 lb woman jammed in the dashboard, looking out through the glove box. Arguably more stupid, there's also photographic evidence of a man who inserted himself into a car's upholstery in an attempt to disguise himself as a captain's chair.
#4 The vodka pipeline Police recently discovered a vodka pipeline connecting Russia to Estonia, indicating at least one Russian thought the Beer Baron episode of the Simpsons was a reasonable basis for a business endeavor. The pipe, over a mile long, ran under a reservoir and pumped somewhere in the neighborhood of 1, 600 gallons, some of which was confiscated by officials in Estonia (where vodka is far more expensive than in Russia).
#3 Coke-Filled Corpses In Africa, a handful of people were arrested for shipping a couple pounds of cocaine inside the stomach of a corpse they said was a body being returned home for burial. It seems like a more clever excuse would have been to claim that the coke was part of their traditional burial ritual, in which no man is sent into the afterlife without enough blow to get him through the boredom of eternity.
#2 Cocaine Plastic Some smugglers have used a process to mix cocaine with silicone to make something that looks like fabric. That however was not enough to fool the drug-sniffing dogs, who quite frankly don't care what the drugs look like. But then we have the ones who've begun processing cocaine into Plexiglas, to make clear plastic products like DVD cases and fish tanks that, if you were to chew them, would get you high before they shredded your insides. Admittedly, there's an equally clever chemical process for getting the drugs back out of the plastic once they've arrived, but who's going to wait around for that?
#1 Cocaine Jesus In Texas, border police stopped an elderly Mexican woman with a sevenpound statue of Jesus in her trunk. Drugsniffing dogs took a real interest in the statue, but authorities didn't find any cocaine hidden inside. That's because the statue was cocaine. It had been molded out of plaster mixed with the drug. The lady had been paid a whopping $80 to bring it across the border (by comparison, if the mixture of the statue was just 50% cocaine, that's a $200, 000 coke statue). We don't know how exactly they intended to get the drugs back out of the statue once it made it to the destination. All we know is if one day you find yourself grinding up the head of Jesus so you can snort it, it's probably time to reevaluate your life
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