40 Ways People Tried and Failed to Smuggle Drugs

Neill Lynskey Published 11/30/2024

There are a lot of ways to sneak drugs across a border, and as the War on Drugs continues, smugglers are getting hilariously creative. We’re all familiar with cars having hidden compartments or planes filled with cocaine doing drug drops.

People are disguising massive amounts of drugs as candy, melons, and carrots and trying to pass them off as food shipments. There’s been a couple of times when submarines carrying drugs had to be tracked down and infiltrated by the military. Prisoners have used dead rats as drug purses, wooden pallets made out of pure cocaine, and rocks containing rocks. There was even a gnome who got in on the action.

The drug world is a crazy one, and their tactics truly reflect how high and low these people are willing to go for a profit.

1. Drugs hidden in rocks.

2. Cocaine disguised as candy.

3. A pigeon caught smuggling drugs.

4. Narco-submarines caught smuggling drugs.

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7. A slingshot in Iran used to shooting opium across to Afghanistan.

8. A garden gnome made out of pure MDMA.

9. A private jet caught transporting cocaine from Belize.

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11. A plane caught transporting cocaine.

12. An excavator filled with cocaine, X-rayed.

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15. A capsule that was swallowed and found inside of a man.

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18. Cocaine disguised as avocados.

19. A turtle with kilos of cocaine tied to it.

20. Cocaine disguised as bananas

21. Drug bags found in feces.

22. Pills found via X-ray.

23. Cocaine packet removed from man's mouth.

24. Wooden pallets made out of cocaine.

25. Meth disguised as a melon.

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36. A man who tried to pass drug bags off as his butt.

37. A Brazilian drug smuggler caught with drugs in butt implants.

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