What's the oddest thing you've smuggled across a border?
Apr 2, 2007, 2:36 am
#2
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: NYC, CDG, NCE
Programs: DL DM
Posts: 2,633
Salt
I once helped a guy smuggle 700lbs of salt from Cote D'Ivoire to Mali.
Met him on a bus.
Got off the bus at the border, he offered to "help me find a taxi" across the border. I got the front seat, the salt went in the back, covered by a blanket.
He disappeared into the brush and reappeared at the side of the road on the other side of the border.
He paid the driver and bought me a Pepsi.
And we all went on our merry ways.
Met him on a bus.
Got off the bus at the border, he offered to "help me find a taxi" across the border. I got the front seat, the salt went in the back, covered by a blanket.
He disappeared into the brush and reappeared at the side of the road on the other side of the border.
He paid the driver and bought me a Pepsi.
And we all went on our merry ways.
Apr 2, 2007, 4:17 am
#4
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: RTM
Programs: DiamondClub (rip), Currently an Alliance Treble Champion (BA, A3, AZ)
Posts: 1,786
I once helped a guy smuggle 700lbs of salt from Cote D'Ivoire to Mali.
Met him on a bus.
Got off the bus at the border, he offered to "help me find a taxi" across the border. I got the front seat, the salt went in the back, covered by a blanket.
He disappeared into the brush and reappeared at the side of the road on the other side of the border.
He paid the driver and bought me a Pepsi.
And we all went on our merry ways.
Met him on a bus.
Got off the bus at the border, he offered to "help me find a taxi" across the border. I got the front seat, the salt went in the back, covered by a blanket.
He disappeared into the brush and reappeared at the side of the road on the other side of the border.
He paid the driver and bought me a Pepsi.
And we all went on our merry ways.
C17H21NO4 could be considered a salt 
Make sure you don't end up in some crazy foreign jail having your nuts cut off or some such!
Anyone who's got plan of inviting me?
Apr 2, 2007, 4:55 am
#6
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: NYC, CDG, NCE
Programs: DL DM
Posts: 2,633
Guess I was just lucky.
Apr 2, 2007, 8:28 am
#8
Join Date: Oct 2004
Programs: Darth Vader of AMEX, A ladys best friend of Hilton, Pt78 of SPG, *G ,*S, ANA VIP
Posts: 3,931
Apr 2, 2007, 10:26 am
#9
Join Date: Jul 2004
Programs: CO Plat, *A Gold (all peacefully retired)
Posts: 623
I have a friend in Jakarta who wanted to replace his grass with the softer US variety, so I went to Home Depot and bought a 5-lb bag of Scott's grass seed and packed it on my next trip to Indo.
He later reported that it began to grow in his yard and then quickly died off.
He later reported that it began to grow in his yard and then quickly died off.
Apr 2, 2007, 10:35 am
#10
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: NYC/SFO
Programs: UA 1K*MM, AA PP
Posts: 1,097
Myself.
I found myself in Tijuana Mexico without any id (pre-9/11) having left my wallet in the car on the US side of the border. This was at the walk-across border point where shoppers cross over for a few hours to Tijuana from south of San Diego.
The following 100% honest exchange occurred at the entry point after I explained that I left my wallet in the car parked at a U.S. side of the border lot:
What's your citizenship?
U.S.
Where do you live?
Santa Cruz, California
Where were you born?
St. Petersburg.
Okay, go ahead.
I can only imagine that she figured I meant St. Petersburg, Florida, and I felt that clarifying that it was actually St. Petersburg Russia would be counter-productive to getting back to my car and wallet and home.
I found myself in Tijuana Mexico without any id (pre-9/11) having left my wallet in the car on the US side of the border. This was at the walk-across border point where shoppers cross over for a few hours to Tijuana from south of San Diego.
The following 100% honest exchange occurred at the entry point after I explained that I left my wallet in the car parked at a U.S. side of the border lot:
What's your citizenship?
U.S.
Where do you live?
Santa Cruz, California
Where were you born?
St. Petersburg.
Okay, go ahead.
I can only imagine that she figured I meant St. Petersburg, Florida, and I felt that clarifying that it was actually St. Petersburg Russia would be counter-productive to getting back to my car and wallet and home.
Apr 2, 2007, 11:14 am
#11
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: WAS, FLL
Programs: AA, B6, CO, DL, FL, UA, US Gold (only took 10k miles), WN, Amtrak
Posts: 1,299
Cambodian currency. It is illegal to bring Cambodian currency out from Cambodia but I left with about $.50 worth in my wallet when I left Phonm Phen.
Apr 2, 2007, 12:23 pm
#15
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 15
I've just smuggled Cuban cigars. My mother, grandmother, and aunt have smuggled all sorts of plants into the US from Poland. I'm actually surprised they've never been caught. My aunt has actually sent us some endangered mushrooms in the mail! Well, she didn't know they were endangered when she picked them - they looked like a common non-endangered kind. Later upon further inspection she realized they were the endangered ones. Since they were already picked, she sent them to us in the US.