1.8-mile pipe used to smuggle vodka

[maximus otter]

Lithuanian border guards yesterday uncovered a 1.8-mile pipeline being used to smuggle vodka from Belarus.

The plastic pipe, which started just across the border, was buried up to four inches underground.

It ran beneath several roads and along a riverbed into the back garden of a house on the Lithuanian side of the border in Eisiskes.

Vodka, which is much cheaper in Belarus than in Lithuania, is constantly being smuggled across the border and distributed, mostly in rural areas.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...ka11.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/12/11/ixworld.html

maximus otter

 

[Josh Feltman]

That's a great story.

 

[mete]

Politicians never seem to understand that high taxes on alcohol always invite smuggling .

 

[Rugger]

Wasn't there a US distiller that got popped for importing booze disguised as windshield cleaner? They dyed the liquor blue for shipping & removed the coloring chemically.
And yes, people will go to absurd lengths to procure liquor.
My grandfather spent a little (Very little) time in the county lockup for moonshining. Quite a character.

 

[Ilovetoolsteel]

Lithuanian border guards yesterday uncovered a 1.8-mile pipeline being used to smuggle vodka from Belarus.

The plastic pipe, which started just across the border, was buried up to four inches underground.

It ran beneath several roads and along a riverbed into the back garden of a house on the Lithuanian side of the border in Eisiskes.

Vodka, which is much cheaper in Belarus than in Lithuania, is constantly being smuggled across the border and distributed, mostly in rural areas.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...ka11.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/12/11/ixworld.html

maximus otter

That just warms my libertarian heart and gives me renewed optimisim that despite the roadblocks government errects capitalism will still flourish!

Was anyone arrested? If so there should be a legal defense fund established to defend the people responsible?


Drew

 

[textoothpk]

Ohmygod. That is just beautiful. MaximusOtter, you come up with some great ones!

Thanks for this latest one!

Phil