You may have watched the movie Snakes On A Plane and this classic action flick has served as an inspiration to many criminals and drug dealers around the world to smuggle illegal substances, valuable properties, living beings and rare species.
The smugglers in today's world are really inventive to sneak past the authorities- by hiding money in box of pastries or putting guns in the Mickey Mouse dolls or placing drugs in mini-submarines. But these set of runners in the real world, as the smugglers in the movie, are often caught and they end up in a mess.
An old lady, who was trying to smuggle Apple iPhones from Hong Kong to Shenzhen in China by keeping them inside beer bottles, was caught recently. The lot, comprising of iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S, was inserted into empty beer bottles that had been cut open and then resealed with tape. They were actually bundled in groups of three, wrapped in a black bag and put into dark bottles.
Indeed, this wasn't one of the best innovative methods followed although there are other thugs in the society who are travelling daily with a lot of substance, without getting caught and the system needs to come out with ground-breaking technologies to catch them red-handed and prevent the crime from spreading.
Here is a slideshow which will take you on a ride to several ridiculous methods adopted by smugglers.
Australian native geckos concealed in a hollowed out book which were seized by Customs officials are seen in the handout photo.ReutersA Libyan police officer views a haul of prescription drug Tramadol seized from a shipping container in Tripoli. ReutersA worker from Rome's Biopark zoo holds Testudo Kleinmanni hatchlings, an endangered species also known as Egyptian tortoises, in Rome. ReutersSome of the 150 bottles containing illegal liquid steroids hidden inside sexual lubricant packaging seized by the Australian Customs is seen in this handout.ReutersOne of 200 cement yard statues shaped like a donkey is shown on display in this handout image provided by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and released to Reuters.ReutersPhoto released by Belgian police shows exotic frogs from Panama that were discovered by customs officials in film boxes at Brussels national airport. ReutersTwo Australian Customs officers hold statues made of ephedrine, a drug used to make "Speed" or methamphetamine, after they were seized in raids in Sydney.ReutersNative Australian beetles which were seized by customs officials are seen in this handout photo. ReutersMaria del Mar Arjona Rivero (L), 19, is seen holding the suitcase in which she tried to smuggle her partner Juan Ramirez Tijerina out of the prison where he was serving a sentence for unspecified federal crimes, and Ramirez Tijerina (R) is seen inside the suitcase after being discovered by prison guards in Chetumal July 2, 2011.ReutersA Thai custom officer shows seized turtles during a news conference at Thailand's customs department in Bangkok.ReutersA wooden door, imported from Mexico and containing about 5 kg (11 pounds) of cocaine, was seized by Australian Customs officials in Sydney.ReutersA handout photo by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) shows parts of a pistol which were found hidden in a stuffed animal at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island on May 8, 2012. ReutersA woman on a flight from Singapore to Melbourne shows the 51 live tropical fishes hidden in a specially designed apron under her skirt in this handout photograph from the Australian Customs Service.ReutersA Palestinian smuggles a calf through a tunnel beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafah.ReutersHandout image shows one of two live 40cm-long (16 inches) juvenile emerald green tree boas that Australian customs officials seized at the Melbourne International Mail Centre.ReutersA cache of cocaine concealed inside dozens of phony candy Easter eggs is pictured in this photograph released by the U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.ReutersA German customs officer holds a confiscated soccer ball used as a hiding spot to smuggle cigarettes to Germany at the Finance ministry in Berlin.ReutersA Mr Potatohead toy containing 293 grams of ecstasy seized by Australian Customs at a mail centre in Sydney is seen in this undated handout photograph.ReutersSmuggling Spider MonkeysReutersMembers of the Colombian Navy stand guard on top of a seized submarine built by drug smugglers in a makeshift shipyard in Timbiqui, department of Cauca.ReutersMoney concealed in pastries that the German customs agency Zoll seized during an anti-money laundering operation, is displayed before the agency's annual statistics news conference at the finance ministry in Berlin March 16, 2012. Reuters
