WORLD RECORDS IN DOPE SMUGGLING (G. Shelton)
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Largest amount smuggled in footwear - 35lbs of cocaine in pair of
platform shoes. Los Angeles Airport, 1975
Largest payload in camper - 7,600lbs of marijuana in Datsun pickup.
Tijuana, 1976.
Oldest smuggler - 108 year old woman caught swimming the Panama Canal
with 150lbs of Coca leaves. (she then overwhelmed 6 guards and escaped).
Earliest air attempt - Niagara Falls by balloon, 1859. 6 cases of French
Absinthe dumped into Niagara River.
Shortest multi-engined air attempt - 100yds by a DC-8 loaded with 36 tons
of Michoacan, Georgia 1975.
Rocket smuggle (experimental) - 200lbs of alfalfa in Texas. 1962.
Nautical Payload - 300,000lbs in San Fransisco Bay. 1969.
Longest pipeline - The Jamaica - Miami Ganja Oil Pipeline, constructed
and maintained by the Rastafarians.
Distance, Radio controlled - 2 kilos, 49 miles, San Diego. 1974.
Official Goverment Record - 48 tons of hasish statues of "Ishtar the
Relaxed" from Afghanistan, traded for equal weight of concrete bird-
baths from USA (cultural exchange program).
Distance - Giant Turtles tow waterproof containers 6,000 miles in an
instinctive return to their nesting beach.
Speed (land) - California 1976. Wire shot across border under wire fence,
rabbits carrying 2 kilos of grass and wearing wire- following harnesses,
are injected with methedrine and released.
