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Smuggling drugs in completely safe and structurally sound factory-made vehicles is for cowards. Real smugglers 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 partially-built 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.Costing from a few hundred thousand to millions of dollars, the subs are usually crewed by small teams, have ranges of around 5,000 nautical miles and generally carry several hundred million dollars worth of drugs per trip. If you're wondering how you convince a drug mule to get inside one of those things, we're guessing they figure that with 11 tons of drugs in there nobody will notice if, at the end of the trip, a little comes up missing.
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. Another passenger was sitting in the seat and the entire car was hoping today was the day customs officials were holding their annual 'Bring A Retard To Work Day.'
Elsewhere in the universe, some people have attempted to smuggle humans-specifically a woman and her 3 year old daughter-. If you've never been in a gas tank of a Dodge Caravan you may be surprised to learn it's exactly as uncomfortable as it sounds, which is to say: still better than public transit. Easily half of the Cracked audience is too young to remember prohibition. These days we're lucky enough to wake up and pour Southern Comfort on our Lucky Charms before shitting ourselves and passing out in the kitchen until sundown. But in some countries folks still have to rely on the kindness of smugglers to get their blinding fix.Police recently discovered 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.
You know how sometimes when you're freebasing vaseline and cloves and you think to yourself 'Man, if only this had some kind of rotten vitriol from the insides of a corpse on it, this would be way better'?Other people have thought that too. And so they've saved the day by so you can get both high and gangrene at the same time.' Hey, you're not a dead cop, right? You'd have to tell me if you were.' 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. 'Cocaine Jesus' both describes the method this smuggler chose, and probably the new nickname everyone gave him for thinking of it.In Texas, border police stopped an elderly Mexican woman with a seven-pound statue of Jesus in her trunk. Drug-sniffing dogs took a real interest in the statue, but authorities didn't find any cocaine hidden inside.'
Not everything is filled with cocaine.' That's because. 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).
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Image: The drugs were found in locked storage containers on the yachtTy Surgeon, who led the investigation for the NCA, said: 'The main instigators Clark and Waters - both of whom have previous convictions for drug trafficking offences - knew exactly what they were doing and had planned every part of the drug smuggling attempt.' The NCA's deputy director, Matt Horne, said the seizure would help to prevent violent crime in the UK, which has been linked to drug supply.He added: 'Making a profit is the motive for organised criminals and this interdiction would have really hit them in the pocket - disrupting their activities and damaging their reputation at the same time.'
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The five men will be sentenced at Bristol Crown Court next week.