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Yeolchae
Joined: 24 Aug 2006
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 Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:07 am Post subject: Secret pipeline into EU discovered |
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Russian customs officers say they have discovered a mile long pipeline that was pumping vodka to Latvia.
Border cops in Buholovo, on the border, said the tunnel had been laid six feet underground by crooks to pump home-made vodka across the border. It was then sold in Latvia.
But the pipeline was discovered when local council workers started digging holes to plant trees in the area.
Yakov Kabanov, of the local border police, said: "We had our suspicions that there was someone running hooch across the border here but we could never figure out how they managed it.
"They probably would have got away with it for decades if those trees hadn't been planted as well."
Officers are questioning people in Buholovo about the pipeline, which ran between two rented houses that were empty when they were raided.
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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Brilliant 
Someone should build a similar pipeline from the US to Canada so Canadians can avoid the exorbitant liquor taxes. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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The smugglers should be happy it ended this way.
My father would've tapped into that line, put a faucet on it, show up with a bucket every now and then, and skimmed from their profits.
Now they've capital costs to set-up again, but they've be able to charge a premium for the increased risk.
Ah, the underground economy is alive and well! |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
Brilliant
Someone should build a similar pipeline from the US to Canada so Canadians can avoid the exorbitant liquor taxes. |
and backatcha with the weed.
or wait, they've already done that... except that it was a 1 to 1 trade with cocaine... never a good idea. |
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