RIYADH: A smuggler tried to sneak booze into Saudi Arabia with specially constructed trousers – but he’s not the only one to try something daft.
This is what you call a lotta bottle – a smuggler trying to sneak booze into teetotal Saudi Arabia using concealed pockets in his trousers.
The bottles were also covered with a traditional white robe, but customs officials noticed how oddly he was walking and soon discovered his boozy swag.
Now he faces jail and a possible public flogging.
But he’s far from the first to apply a little imagination – or downright idiocy – to a smuggling bid…
Stuffing a live monkey up your blouse and claiming to be pregnant sounds like a comedy script. But that’s exactly what American Gypsy Lawson, 29, did to sneak a drugged rhesus monkey into the US in 2008. At first she got away with it, flying from Thailand with her mother without raising suspicion. But both were arrested after she bragged to an assistant in a clothes shop – who alerted the FBI.
