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British Museum Asks Public for Help Locating Stolen Artifacts
The British Museum is asking the public for help to recover several stolen artifacts on a webpage launched on Tuesday. The museum dismissed an unnamed employee over the summer for allegedly stealing artifacts and reported in a press release that an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Service is underway. Recovery specialists advised the British Museum…
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Idiots Try To Ship Venomous Snakes And Spiders To Australia, As If It Needed More
When a suspicious looking box labelled “two pair shoes” arrived in Australia from Northern Europe recently, the Australian Border Force sent it through an X-ray. They didn’t find shoes, of course. Instead, the box contained a terrifying assortment of venomous snakes, spiders and scorpions — as if the country needed more of those.
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Smugglers Busted With Nearly $400 Million Worth Of Cocaine Moulded Into Shipping Pallets
Remember that scene in Traffic where they moulded cocaine into dolls? This kind of trickery happens in real life, too. A band of international smugglers recently got caught with over $US370 million worth of cocaine disguised as 40 shipping pallets. No, the pallets weren’t filled with cocaine. The pallets were cocaine.
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How Not To Smuggle 94 iPhones Through Chinese Customs
When customs officers at Futian Port in China saw a male passenger with “weird walking posture, joint stiffness, muscle tension…” they got suspicious. Turns out, he was attempting to smuggle 94 iPhones into the country — all of them strapped to his body.