Customs Seizes 316,000 Bongs Listed As Christmas Ornaments
Shout outs to LA Times for this story and the pic above:
Customs officials at the Los Angeles Harbor received a shipment from China listed as Christmas ornaments.
But when they opened the “presents” Tuesday, they found 316,000 bongs and pipes.
“They’re very colorful and big,” said Cristina Gamez, a spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “Some of them are like 2 feet tall.”
Gamez said glass bongs and pipes, contained in nearly 860 boxes of cargo, are worth about $2.6 million.
The package arrived a month ago but was seized Tuesday at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex. The manifest listing the cargo’s contents said Christmas ornaments were inside. They were addressed to someone in L.A. County.
Haters. Now what are they gonna do with all those bongs? Just throw them away???? Such silliness.
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Robin
11.22.2009
wtf is illegal about bongs?! they can be used to smoke whatever..is this just because they were falsely labelled?
JV410
11.22.2009
Why can't the President see that not only marijuana but related paraphernalia is extremely profitable?
Byshop
11.22.2009
This is some bullshit… hopefully they were detained for being fraudulent or even for being Chinese last thing we need is lead in our bongs…
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