It’s quite strange being in a country where alcohol is banned. I was once lucky enough to go the Maldives and the people who owned the boat I was staying on had their own ‘dealer’ who arrived on a little dinghy to deliver the contraband. Cool right?
How Do You Smuggle 48,000 Cans Of Heineken Into Saudi Arabia?
By
Editorial Staff in
Bizarre
On 16th November 2015
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#1 In Saudi Arabia, the punishment for smuggling alcohol can be extremely severe. You can be sentenced to prison and multiple floggings if caught; so this person who decided to try and smuggle in 48,000 cans of Heineken was taking a massive risk. They came so close to sneaking the liquor through the border but fell at the very last hurdle…The crafty smugglers covered every can with plastic Pepsi rappers, but they got stopped on the border during a routine check and their plot was foiled.
"A truck carrying what first seemed to be normal cans of the soft drink Pepsi was stopped and after the standard process of searching the products, it became clear that the alcoholic beers were covered with Pepsi's sticker logos," Al Batha border General Manager Abdulrahman al-Mahna was quoted as saying, according to Al Arabiya News.
#2 Other smugglers have gone to similar lengths to try and deceive the authorities, a Saudi man was caught on the border with Bahrain with 12 bottles of liquor sewed into his trousers. And they recently found more than 19,000 bottles of booze hidden in a shipment of rice and tomato paste.
Well you won't find me heading to Saudi Arabia any time. I loves a drink.
