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Border bunglers: 10 odd smuggling attempts foiled by US agents

Drugs are just a few of the illegal products – from the exotic to the mundane – that people attempt to sneak across the US-Mexico border everyday. Here are 10 examples of creative ways people tried to sneak something past Customs.

8. A glass of avocado a day

Mexican Hass Avocado Importers Association/PRNewsFoto/File
Chances are, these avocados were not smuggled into the country in a box of drinking glasses.

  • By Lourdes Medrano Staff writer

The US imports avocados from Mexico, but to ward off a pest that has been found in the fruit, individuals are not allowed to bring them in. Still, people keep trying, as did someone who concealed several avocados in a box of drinking glasses. 

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