Men busted for smuggling gold under their toupées

[pesco]

Originally published at: Men busted for smuggling gold under their toupées | Boing Boing

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[Brainspore]

@pesco

g gold using more traditional methods such as sewing it inside their underwear and jamming it up their butts.

I bet they were shitting bricks when the airport security pulled them aside.

[Papasan]

Yeah, but now they have to-pay!

[Azure]

I wonder if they saw the Get Smart episode where this was the plot except with diamonds.

[LutherBlisset]

[Lanthade]

This made me wonder why so I googled and found this:

Why Is Gold Smuggled to India?

[gracchus]

Forming the basis of that favourite Indian bedtime story, Goldie-locks and the Three Customs Inspectors.

[Papasan]

Oh, I do love that one.

[Mister44]

Thanks for the info - but also serious question - why can’t they just Mr T it into the country? That doesn’t look like that much gold. Just cast it into a giant cross or other ornatment and hang it on a fake gold chain, and be like “I am just living large, bro.”

Then take it to your contact to sell. Casting a simple, low quality cross I wouldn’t raise the price too much, I would think.

[roomwithaview]

I rectum that’ll show 'em there’ll be hell toupee!

[Dioptase1]

Miners in the Yukon are happy to get $50 (1 gram) per cubic meter of gravel mined. At a minimum of 1000 wigs per cubic meter, mining for gold in wigs in India has a 350,000 times higher yield than high grade ore in the Yukon.

Time to steal a sled dog and head to India!

[knoxblox]

Why yes officer, my shit is made of gold. It might not smell like roses, but hey!

[Yasif]

@Brainspore

shitting bricks

Ingot 'a get outta this place, if it’s the last thing we ever do

[fuzzyfungus]

Even if it was necessary to keep it out of sight; it seems like there are a lot of completely banal travel items that have internal metal parts that nobody remarks on; and it doesn’t look like these guys are dealing with enough gold that the fact that gold is denser than any decent metal has any business being would become evident.

If I were feeling particularly lazy, I’d cast my eye in the direction of all the stuff that uses metal tubes as structural elements(common in rigid luggage, retractable handles, etc.) and just cast it into there.