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Initech

(100,068 posts)
Fri Aug 30, 2013, 03:55 PM Aug 2013

Dumb Criminals: Man's Attempt To Smuggle Live Fish Through Pants At Airport Fails Big Time

A man’s master plan to smuggle live fish into New Zealand was thwarted after airport officials saw his trousers were dripping wet.

If you plan to sneak fish into another country it is probably best you come up with a better transport method than stuffing them in your pockets.

Sadly this advice came too late for a Vietnamese resident travelling from Australia who tried to smuggle seven cichlids by hiding them in plastic bags in his trousers.

But his plan failed when water begun to seep from the bags and was detected by official

http://metro.co.uk/2013/08/30/mans-attempt-to-smuggle-fish-thwarted-after-officials-spot-his-wet-trousers-3943065/


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