7 of the most unexpected finds of customs
We present to your attention seven very strange items seized by customs all around the world. Some of them, more than strange :).
Perhaps the most strange thing ever seized by customs, was found in Stansted airport in 2007: an unexpected discovery — 10 human eyeballs floating in a jar of jam.
At Coventry airport, customs officers intercepted times quite unexpected pair of gloves with claws in the style of Freddy Kruger.
The staff at Munich airport was shocked when I discovered the head and the skeleton in the Luggage of the two Italians during a routine x-ray scan. Women said that the remains belong to a member of their family who died in Brazil, but would like to be buried in Italy. After the presentation of the relevant documents in a surprising discovery, the pair apparently went on.
At Heathrow, the African Prince who obtained an education at Harvard was caught trying to smuggle cocaine worth £ 163 000 hidden inside hollowed-out onions.
In the period of struggle against money-laundering in 2012, the German customs once seized a large sum of money hidden in a cookie. Each note was carefully rolled and inserted into a sand tube with a cream.
Ancient statues were once confiscated from smugglers in Greece, near Corinth. Scientists believe that the unexpected findings of the statue belong to the 6th century BC.
Cargo dried caterpillars were seized by customs officers at Gatwick airport. Tens of thousands of insects, Packed in plastic bags and wrapped in burlap was discovered in the Luggage of 22-year-old young man who came from Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa.
Keywords: The world | Smuggling | Customs | The subject finds