For Sale Car with Cocaine -- Apply with Customs

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BERLIN (Reuters) - German customs unwittingly auctioned a car containing 22 pounds of cocaine, the Customs Investigation Authority (ZFA) in the northern city of Hamburg said on Tuesday.

The Chevrolet estate was originally imported from Mexico and impounded in 1997 after an X-ray revealed it was carrying 120 pounds of the drug. But that wasn't all.

"The software used to scan the car in 1997 was not sophisticated enough to pick up the other 10 kilograms," said Hamburg ZFA spokesman Robert Duetsch.

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1. US Customs did the same thing recently...

Bone heads.

They sold a car to some guy who lives in Mexico that was stuffed with pot. They drove and home and proceeded to commut back and forth across the border for several months. Eventually, they caught him and threw him in jail. After several months he was able to prove it wasn't his fault.