It might have worked for a while. Unfortunately, the Italian customs people found out about it - with results as illustrated.
Wonder how many cigarettes were involved? That's quite a heap! Also, how much effort went into hiding them so creatively? That's a lot of hard work for nothing . . .
Peter
Nice, clean bore inside the logs. Wonder how they bored the logs out?
ReplyDeleteSo.... taxes are SO high there, this became viable?
ReplyDeleteIt's been a viable occupation since Christ was a corporal... Smuggling by the Corsican/Sicilians is a LONG family tradition!!! and it's not just cigarettes, it's ANYTHING you want smuggled including people.
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