smuggler tries to outrun cops with horse & cart

[Amby 490]

A would-be smuggler was arrested after trying to outrun border police with £300,000 of cigarettes in a horse and cart.

Police challenged Janos Jakab as he crossed Romania's northern border with the Ukraine carrying nearly 100,000 packets of cigarettes and tobacco.

After a short chase police outran the cart and arrested Jakab.

A spokesman for the local border police said: "In general smugglers are becoming more and more sophisticated in their methods of getting contraband across borders. But this case proved the exception to the rule.

"We have a fleet of high-powered vehicles that can chase down the fastest cars. Outrunning our officers was never a possibility - even if he had a thoroughbred racehorse strapped to his cart."

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3108869.html

[Dakine 26]

OOPs

Edited December 4, 2008 by Haole

[Sister Fracas 5]

Bosco would have been able to outrun the cops...

[Amby 490]

Bosco would have been able to outrun the cops...

that's what I was thinking as well

[Dr. Obvious 49]

"Check out my ride with 1 hp, baby. Badazz."

[Amby 490]

I think this one deserves a bump

[Peikko 1,575]

So, if the owner was arrested, what did they do with the pony?

[Niels Bohr 72]

ROFL

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Maybe he was trying to fool his way past the cops by an unimpressive mode of transport (didn't work though)?