Nowadays smuggling something or someone across the border is very difficult the cheap tricks
smugglers used decades ago no longer work that's because of the advanced technology and techniques
law enforcement now have so that's why smugglers have to get very creative and clever from people
smuggling small things like money to entire cars and even people who have used animals to help them
get stuff across the border smuggling inside food when it comes to shipping one of the most
transported things around the world is food food often contains lots of packaging and sometimes
there's even space inside food and smugglers have creatively used this to sneak many things across
the border in india some bananas were intercepted one day it turned out that the banana had been
removed from the peel inside smugglers had put rolls of money they had then glued the banana
peels back up they also used tape on some of the bananas which is what gave them away
also at an airport in india a box of sweets was intercepted the security guards removed the suites
from the box and tore out the bottom of it and underneath it were very neatly wrapped stacks of
foreign money smuggled in rolled bank notes have even been found in peanuts the peanut shells were
then glued back together in 2013 a french woman tried to smuggle 52 000 euros inside pastries and
in 2015 an italian businessman tried to smuggle in a large amount of cash using a cake hidden car
in 2020 at a south african border police intercepted a vehicle the vehicle had lots
of brooms on it but when they checked under the brooms they discovered an entire car hidden
under them the car was a stolen ford ranger these smugglers were trying to get the car
from south africa into mozambique it's pretty impressive that these people hid an entire car
when the truck was being inspected the suspect driving it actually ran away
a manhunt has been launched for the man but we're not sure if he's been captured yet
cigarettes illegal cigarettes are one of the most smuggled things in the world it's a multi-billion
dollar business authorities have tried over the years to clamp down on this but this has only
made smugglers even more creative in 2015 russian authorities stopped a train it was carrying lots
of timber but when they inspected it they realized the timber was hollow inside the
hollowed-out wood was cigarettes they then filled the base of the tree trunks with more wood and
this perfectly disguised the cigarettes until they were finally intercepted in 2017 a similar thing
happened in romania millions of dollars worth of cigarettes were found in hollowed-out tree trunks
many of these tobacco-filled tree trunks have been intercepted before but there are also many
which sneak past border patrol and this makes the smugglers and people who sell them billions
of dollars every year or so recently in ukraine some paper rolls were on route to europe that's
when they were stopped and inspected by border guards in ukraine inside the paper rolls they
found not paper but cigarettes also in singapore the entire floor of one truck was hollowed out
inside illegal cigarettes were stored but when singaporean customs officials noticed the truck's
extra weight they inspected it and inside they found millions of dollars worth of cigarettes
bird smugglers before we had things like the postal service people would use carrier pigeons
to transport letters and goods while regular people don't use these today smugglers do in
2015 a pigeon was intercepted trying to fly into a jail in costa rica the pigeon had a pouch attached
to it which had narcotics inside it was seen landing inside the prison and was caught by guards
they believed that someone on the outside had trained it to fly into the prison the prison
director said this is nothing new and in the past smugglers had used cats and dogs to try and get
things inside the prison also in kuwait a pigeon was intercepted at the border this pigeon also
had a fake package attached to it with illegal substances inside the package was in the exact
same color as the pigeon to make it blend in but the very eagle-eyed border guards noticed this
gold in clothes gold is a very popular currency for criminals that's because unlike money it
cannot be traced in india one man was found to have gold sewed into his pants he tried to sneak
this into the waistband but the metal detectors caught him also in bangladesh two men were
arrested after sneaking gold inside their shirts the smuggler also had some gold in his shoes
drones we've already seen smugglers try and use birds to get things across
borders and into prisons but of course birds cannot be controlled by us humans drones on
the other hand can and nowadays anyone can buy a drone fairly cheaply the ministry of defense
released secretly recorded video of people trying to smuggle things into jails in the uk they did
this using drones they simply flew them over the prison fence and landed inside the jail courtyard
normally things like tools mobile phones and even weapons are smuggled inside jails using drones
narco traffickers have also been known to use drones to get things overboard offences
because of this anti-drone technology is now used along many borders car seat illegal items
are not the only thing people try and smuggle over borders sometimes it's people that's right it's no
secret that people often want to enter countries illegally this was the case for one 42 year old
mexican man named enrique aguila controller he tried to sneak into the usa from mexico
he did this by trying to disguise himself as a car seat he made a special frame for him
to sit in and the car seat simply went over the top of him it was very creative and his
seat blended in very normally but unfortunately for him his vehicle was stopped at the border
the vehicle was then searched by border agents who found enrique inside the hollowed-out scene
iphone smuggler fake and stolen iphones are often smuggled across countries to be sold
one man was stopped at the chinese border for trying to get into the country with 94 iphones
strapped to his body the technique of doing this is called a body armor reptile smuggler it's often
costly or even illegal to transport exotic animals from one country to another and that's why they're
often smuggled by people instead once Norwegian authorities arrested a man trying to sneak in
exotic reptiles he had 14 pythons rolled up in socks and strapped his body using tape and he
also had 10 geckos in boxes which were taped to his legs this was a very creative idea but he was
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