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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.

7. Magic beans?

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Mangoes treated by heat: Less tasty? Perhaps. But they still make a lovely spread.

  • By Lourdes Medrano Staff writer

Although mangoes from Mexico are brought into the US commercially, they hit store shelves only after being treated with heat. But mango connoisseurs prefer the flavor of the fruit in its unaltered state, so one border crosser stuffed several in a bag of dried beans.

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