October 24th, 2007 at 12:10 am
Custom Officials discovered approximately 10.5 ounces of ecstasy tablets hidden inside a Mr. Potato Head toy that was sent to Australia from Ireland.
When the Australian Custom officials opened the parcel they were greeted with the smiling face of this popular children’s toy. However when they removed the back panel of the toy they found the ecstasy tablets contained in a plastic bag.
Officials turned the matter over to federal police. No arrests have been made at this time as the case is still under investigation. The maximum penalty for importing drugs to Australia is life imprisonment.
“Whilst this is one of the more unusual concealments that we have seen in recent times, people need to be aware that Customs officers are alert to unusual and often outlandish methods of concealment,” Customs Director Post Karen Williams said.
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May 3rd, 2006 at 6:17 pm
How stupid are they? A Billion dollar bill:
Counterfeiter Tekle Zigetta, 45, was caught by US customs agents in Hollywood with 250 bogus billion-dollar bills. His fatal flaw? There’s no such thing as a $1billion note.
I’ll hide it in the garbage, yeah, that’s what I’ll do:
Tokyo -
Japanese police have returned more than 42-thousand dollars to a man whose wife accidentally threw it out with the trash. The Kyodo News Agency says the man lost the money in early March when his wife threw out the envelope in which he had hidden the cash. The man had been hiding the envelope _ which he had wrapped in a trash bag _ in a garbage can.
The man tells the paper he’d been moving the cash around and hiding it in various places so it couldn’t be stolen by robbers. His wife, unaware that the money was in the garbage can, threw it out along with the rest of the trash. Late last month, the man saw news reports that a sanitation worker had found the cash at a garbage facility and filed a report with police. Police confirmed he was the owner from banking and other details on the envelope.
Lottery Theft
Rocky Mount, N.C.
A thief who ran off with a display cabinet full of lottery tickets will have little to show for his efforts. Police in North Carolina say the man walked into a gas station store, grabbed a display with 600 tickets inside and drove off in a pickup truck. But lotto officials aren’t worried, because despite what he might find by scratching off the tickets, the thief won’t win anything. A lottery spokeswoman says they deactivated the ticket numbers, and the tickets cannot be redeemed.
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