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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.

3. Cleavage as hiding place

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This is a parakeet, not a burrito.

  • By Lourdes Medrano Staff writer

A food container proved versatile for someone who wasn’t exactly hungry for leftovers. When opened, the box revealed two parakeets where perhaps a half-eaten burrito should have been. Small birds also have been smuggled inside toilet paper rolls, their wings taped flat against a woman’s cleavage or the leg of a man wearing baggy pants.

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