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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What do you think?

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Have you ever wished that you could be a lucky person. That good things would happen or that anything you tried to do, especially if it was for your own betterment would work out? Well, you might just be able to do that now.

The creators of the hit movie The Secret have created Official Site: The Secret Science of Getting Rich. The movies launch was one of the most successful word of mouth campaigns ever. It hit Alexa’s movers and shakers list, and went to number one on Amazon.com’s best selling book and DVD lists. Larry King, Oprah Winfrey and other talk shows discussed the movie too, as did the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, NY Times, and Newsweek.

The secret is a methodology that helps people improve their life. With the techniques that you’ll learn at the Official Secret Seminar you’ll learn how to focus on the positive and attract great things. They call this the law of attraction.

As I said earlier everyone wants to do better for themselves. Now you can learn how. It’s basically a how to program, seminar and affiliate program. Some of the top teachers from the movie will be present at the seminars to teach you all of the steps on the road to building your own wealth.

The teachers that will be at the seminars are Jack Canfield who wrote Chicken Soup for the Soul, Bob Proctor who is a creme de la cream success coach, and of course Michael Beckwith who happens to be a popular spiritual leader.

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Objects made of metal are being stolen by people looking to cash in on the increase in raw metal prices. Church roofs, statues, drain covers and even tweezers have been stolen in the city of Paris.

Thefts of copper, aluminum, zinc and nickel were up 144 percent in France last year.

“We are witnessing a real pillage of companies’ assets,” Colonel Philippe Schneider, who heads a police division that specializes in countering such crime, told reporters.

“Everything can be stolen, everything can be sold — cables, drain covers, sculptures,” Schneider said. “We even had 300 kilograms of tweezers stolen.”

Other targets included plane doors, phone booth floors, car wheel rims, cemetery gates and a church roof made of zinc.

Copper, widely used in construction and industry, became a big target for thieves last year as prices of the metal doubled to $8,800 a tonne at one point due to booming Asia demand.

Schneider said stealing cable from a building site or hijacking trucks loaded with scrap metal could pay more than robbing a cash machine or a bank and was far less risky.

“Stealing 10 tonnes of copper is simple,” he said.

“Alongside the traditional petty thefts are methods typical of organized crime, such as … armed robberies, often by international networks.”

However, the number of incidents reported had dropped around 40 percent since October, partly due to a fall in prices and partly because of police efforts to break up organized gangs, he said.

World copper prices have tumbled over the past few months but remain around 20 percent higher than at the same time last year.

Schneider said thieves often sold metal to recycling companies. However, of the 2,500 to 3,000 recycling firms in France, a maximum of 100 were involved in metals trafficking.