The most unusual finds of customs officers
The customs services of Miami airport were dumbfounded, discovering this Egyptian sarcophagus of 3 thousand years old. Quite a strange "baggage" for export from Spain. Zahi Hawass, then head of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiques (left), came to the United States to take away the sarcophagus believed to have been stolen from Egypt over 100 years ago.
This armed stuffed battleship was sent to Australia from Texas as a gift, but it was confiscated in Sydney because of violation of Australian laws on import of wild animals. Customs officers even joked that, they say, "it's so tasteless, that only for this reason you can not let this stuffed person into the country."
Workers at the Munich airport were shocked to find a skeleton in the luggage of two Italian women during the scan. The women said they were the remains of their relative who died in Brazil, which they would like to bury in Italy. After the presentation of a death certificate stating that a person died a natural death, the Italians were allowed to transport the remains to their homeland.
Illegal weapons have long been at the head of the list of items that are most often confiscated at customs, but not all suitcases can boast such a variety of masks. This set was confiscated on the Swiss border by a group of Frenchmen.
A 24-year-old man was arrested at Sydney airport in 2009 for trying to smuggle four snakes and different kinds of lizards into their luggage.
Workers of the John F. Kennedy airport in 2009 in New York detained a passenger from Korea, who found two banknotes with a face value of 100 thousand dollars. These rare banknotes were issued in 1934, but never got into the general turnover. Naturally, the banknotes of the Korean turned out to be fake
UK customs officials once confiscated in the post office a rather frightening pair of gloves in the style of Freddy Krueger.
It is worth removing the hat in front of the ambitious smuggler, who tried to transport 70 animals, including crocodiles
In this picture, obtained by scanning and provided by the media to the Brazilian federal police, one can see bags of cocaine in the gastrointestinal tract of a 20-year-old Irish citizen who was arrested by the Brazilian police on 12 September at Congonhas airport in San- Paulo. A young man, whose name is not yet disclosed, was stopped when trying to board an airplane bound for Brussels. In the intestines of the arrested there were 72 sachets, in which was almost a kilogram of cocaine.
