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Smuggling cigarettes in logs
« on: January 07, 2017, 10:32:50 AM »

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Re: Smuggling cigarettes in logs
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2017, 04:40:16 PM »
The comments hehe

"they are not illegal"

haha, idiots

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Re: Smuggling cigarettes in logs
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2017, 06:05:47 PM »
I had family visit from Canada who brought over packs at £2.50 per 20. Regular price £8.50 per 20. I didn't bother working out how many cigarettes were smuggled there, seems safe to say there's 5 figure profit.

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Re: Smuggling cigarettes in logs
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2017, 07:26:36 PM »
North Carolina, a tobacco producer, was/is a low-cig-tax state relative to the north, so we spawned many, many smugglers. Decades ago, they caught a 18-wheeler with what appeared to be a load of milled lumber on it. The ends of the big, rectangular units of lumber were really doors with blocks glued on to look like the ends of the boards.

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They caught him because the weigh-station was open and the officer knew the truck was too light for the load it had.

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Re: Smuggling cigarettes in logs
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2017, 07:44:30 PM »
Man, all that work and they got busted by tonnage.  That should have been an easy thing to fix.

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Re: Smuggling cigarettes in logs
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2017, 07:52:12 PM »
BTW, that was on the outskirts of town and the photos were in the local paper.  Probably headed to NYC (10-12 hrs drive back then).

Locally, we didn't mess with cigs. Producing & shipping commercial quantities moonshine was more our style.