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That is the most valuable or riskiest think you have ever smuggled?
Mine was diamonds. In the mid-70s, when my wife and I were in South Africa, her mother asked us to bring back some diamonds. She wanted a 1-kt and a couple of 0.25Kts to have set into a ring. We went into the ritziest looking diamond merchant in Joburg, all stainless steel and black velvet, and explained what we wanted. He got out some stones, and said they were pretty close to the best you can get, and they ran about $1500 cash, which was quite a bit of money in 1976.
We were backpacking overland, so I scotch-taped them inside my shaving kit, and spent the next three months on the road from Gabon to Sierra Leone, then flew home with them.
MIL took them to her friend a jeweler, who took one look, and peered over his loupe, and said "Where did you get these?" They had no DeBeers mark, so had obviously never been through the authorized international market. He confirmed that they were about as good as they get, and appraised them at about 5 times what we paid for them.
I tried to smuggle in Cathedral Cheddar Cheese on a flight from Gatwick to Orlando Fl. Somehow they must have caught wind of it because 15 minutes before we reached the gate they stated Do not smuggle in dairy products! There will be dogs highly trained in sniffing your luggage for any illegal dairy products!
I nearly crapped my pants and told my husband that I didn't want to go to jail. So I shoved the cheese between the seat in front of me and the window.
When we got off the plane I made sure my butt stayed by a couple who had a baby on the same flight and sure enough a beagle hightailed it right to my luggage and the officer looked at me and said "Don't worry. He probably thinks its you because your luggage is next to their bags!"
I will never smuggle in cheese again and I know that I will never be a good drug runner!
You smuggled diamonds? What the hell?! Is that story true? And what kind of mother in law do you have? "You want us to bring you something from Africa?" "Oh, just some diamonds..". I was just about to write how I smuggled cigarettes! (and not even many, just for friend, and by car over a Schengen-border..) Now my story sounds kind of lame
The most dangerous thing I ever did was that I forgot my boyfriends razor in my handluggage and airport security didn't find it, and I had the shock of my life when I unpacked at home and found a "weapon" in my handluggage!
pepper spray into Canada. I actually didn't realize I even had it the trunk of my car until I got back home. I hope the Mounties don't come looking for me now.
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