TYT: Man Caught Smuggling Beer As Pepsi Cans

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Saudi Arabia has very strict laws against alcohol. There is a large black market for alcoholic beverages in the country. A man was recently caught smuggling cans of Heineken and disguising them as Pepsi. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

How would you smuggle beer into Saudi Arabia? Let us know in the comments below.

Read more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/12/how-do-you-smuggle-48000-cans-of-heineken-into-saudi-arabia-disguise-it-as-pepsi/

"Legally, alcohol is banned in Saudi Arabia. In reality, however, there are people in the country who drink.

If you're wondering how exactly they actually get that alcohol, consider the multiple reports in the Saudi press today that describe how the Saudi authorities at border with United Arab Emirates caught a man with 48,000 cans of Heineken – all disguised as Pepsi cola.

“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,” Al Batha border General Manager Abdulrahman al-Mahna was quoted as saying, according to Al Arabiya News."

[tomm2thumbs]

1. sounds like living at Baylor University - smuggling beer LOL!!

[onehandle]

2. 1) Seems like it would be cheaper and easier to make your own beer there

2) With little practice, it would be better beer than 'Heineken.'

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. That's what all the Americans did when my uncle was stationed there as a defense contractor.

He said there were lots of home brew operations on "the compound"

My aunt eventually moved over there for the last couple years when their kids were grown up. My aunt used to put on a disguise and drive.

[onehandle]

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