Saudi police confiscate 48,000 beer cans masked as soft drinks

[Jefferson23]

LOL



Thursday, 12 November 2015

A smuggler tried to carry nearly 48,000 cans of beers disguised as Pepsi cans into Saudi Arabia over the Al Batha border crossing with the UAE, reported MBC.net.

The attempt was caught and the person apprehended after customs officers detected the latest scam into the exporting beers in into Saudi Arabia, where alcohol is banned.

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,” said Al Batha border General Manager Abdulrahman al-Mahna.

Al-Mahna also added that the latest attempt is one of many new innovative ways smugglers are thinking of but that his men “are always ready and alert to catch” the extraordinary efforts into hiding contrabands into Saudi Arabia.

The story quickly went viral online, being covered in many local newspapers and online news websites.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2015/11/12/Saudi-police-confiscate-48-000-beer-cans-masked-as-soft-drinks.html

[Sunlei]

1. quite a professional looking re-lable job. I assume hard drink liquids are much easier to hide.

[Jefferson23]

2. I thought so..and so funny. n/t

[Sunlei]

3. I pity the truck driver & the delivery location people. I think this is a death sentence for them.

even if they didn't know a thing about the re-label. Saudi Gov. is absolute hard asses over this 'law'

[Jefferson23]

4. I understand that, my comments are about the will and the means they used.

If any leadership needed to be shipped off the planet, the House of Saud
would be it.

[SCantiGOP]

7. And yet Westerners drink freely

And their Saudi friends come to their "zones" where they live and drink with them.
While I think they are basically nuts, the only religion I've ever seen where most people generally follow their rules are the Mormons. All the others week equally hypocritical.

[Sunlei]

8. perhaps the 'privileged' get away with it, but I think alcohol is illegal across the country.

[SCantiGOP]

9. Oh, it definitely is and has harsh punishments

But Americans and other Westerners live in compounds so they can have alcohol, magazines and lipstick.

[gregcrawford]

5. I'm still trying to figure out...

... why we call these sadistic asswipes our "allies." After all, most of Bin Laden's funding for 9/11 came from Saudi sources, most of the hijackers were Saudis, and the only planes in the air on 9/12 were ferrying Saudis out of the country.

The Wahabbi fanatics are seriously fucked up.

[Jefferson23]

6. Have a Bud and look to our desire to dominate...it's all there. n/t

[SCantiGOP]

10. Allies=oil

Or, allies = not Iran