Originally published at: Customs agents find $5 million in meth disguised as watermelons - Boing Boing
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officers were suspicious
Well, something looks ‘off’ immediately you see one of these. The melons’ variegated stripes are all over the place.
Would hollowed-out melons, carefully stuck back together after stuffing, have been more successful? I bet, like everything else, it’s been tried.
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You’re probably right, but that would require a lot of time and hard work.
This here, though, just smacks of poor craftsmanship.
The celery, too – just lazy and uninspired. They might have gotten better results hiding it among, say, bok choi.
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Yeah, tbh, this was very likely a small farmer who was forced by a cartel to carry their shit across. For them it’s a minimal loss if he’s caught vs high reward if he makes it across. All he probably had hope for was his family not being hung upside-down from a bridge in Tijuana.
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Make hollow plastic ones. I imagine these were mixed in with real ones and it might not be as obvious. Plastic ones would stand an even better chance of getting passed by if they were well painted.
But it’s kinda crap shoot with these things. You want to maximize how much you smuggle, but the more you do, the more likely you will get caught. Odds are another melon truck rolled through ok.
They are getting better at it, though.
ETA:
Didn’t realise that the thumbnail of the picture that goes with the article shows up in the preview of the onebox - but not in the actual rendering. Computers, right? Whaddaya gonna do… Write better code, follow standards and conventions, brush the office unicorn’s mane more often?
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Reminds me of a story from 20 years ago that my wife and I latched onto: Man tries to smuggle bologna in shape of car seat over border
My wife and I proceeded to spend the next 20 years joking about the things you can shape Mexican bologna into. Eventually settling on our cat being “A cat-shaped loaf of Mexican bologna”
There is a whole industry around smuggling Mexican bologna. And I know it’s getting through because I know where to buy it in the Bay Area. I haven’t, but it’s supposed to taste way better than the bland American-made stuff.
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This can only lead to one thing.
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