Joe Exclamation
Necessity is the mother of Ingenuity, and as customs and border control become more adept in stopping illegal contraband, smugglers must become more ingenious.
Here are the 10 Smartest Smugglers OF ALL TIME!
1. Truck full of troubles
In Brownsville Texas, officers grew suspicious of a truck that was being exported. It had the tailgate welded shut and a number of screws in odd places. After using special dogs to sniff out contraband they decided to dismantle the truck bed finding a false bottom which hid a number of guns and automatic weapons as well as thousands of round of ammunition.
2. Gold in a Shirt
These smugglers got caught in Bangladesh airport trying to smuggle gold. They’d sewn the flattened nuggets into their shirts and in the soles of their shoes. In total 2.5kg of gold was seized with a worth of nearly $150,000
3. Apple Genius
This man was searched on the Chinese border and nothing was found in his bags, however, officers noticed the man’s lack of flexibility and the strange way he walked and decided to search him. They found 94 iPhone 6s and 6s plus taped to his body.
4. Model Family
A normal family just driving a normal car across the border right?…
wrong! A few telltale scratches gave officers the idea that the car may have been dismantled in order to hide something. They found 26 packages stuffed full of $100 dollar bills.
5. Cigarettes in Tree Trunks
During a customs check, officers found 25,000 packs of cigarettes hidden inside 55 tree trunks. The smugglers had hollowed out the trunks, filled them with cigarettes, and then carefully replaced the end caps, hiding the trunks within the 27-ton shipment.
6. Cold-Blooded Smuggler
In Norway, this man was caught trying to smuggle 14 pythons and 10 geckos hidden in socks and boxes that were taped to his body. Customs were suspicious when they found a tarantula in his bag and so decided to search him.
7. Man Smuggler
In Mexico, police detained Maria del mar Arjona after a conjugal visit as she struggled to leave the prison with a rather heavy suitcase. Upon opening it the found her convict husband Juan Ramirez Tijerina squashed inside wearing only his underwear.
8. Man Seat
In 2001 on the US border with Mexico, a 42 man attempted to smuggle himself into the US by disguising himself as a car seat. He removed the foam from an existing seat and installed a frame to get the seat its shape although he failed, he deserves 10 out of 10 for effort.
9. Drone Smugglers
While their utility is limited due to the small amount of weight they can carry, some people have used drones to smuggle things into prisons, and a large number of prisons have had to install special fencing and signal jammers to put a stop to it
10. Humming Pants
This man was stopped for acting suspiciously in Cayenne airport, In the X-ray they saw he had something strange in his underwear so they searched him, finding over a dozen live hummingbirds in his underpants. Each bird was taped up individually so it couldn’t escape.
Which smuggler surprised you the most?
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