CIGARETTE SMUGGLER FLOATS ACROSS RIVER DISGUISED AS A WATER PLANT

A cigarette smuggler moving his load across a river from Paraguay to Argentina tried to disguise himself as a water hyacinth. Argentinian police shone their flashlights at the ‘floating plant’ as it came towards their boat under the cover of darkness. There was a human under all the green leaves, pushing 200 packs of cigarettes in four black boxes tied to his body and also covered with a mix of leaves and artificial plants. The giveaway: no one had ever seen a plant like that floating so fast on top of the water, and it made police take a closer look.
* He not only looked like a water plant, he has the I.Q. of one.
* He would have made it if he’d disguised himself as empty plastic water bottle and other river pollution.
* Too cheap to buy some drones?
* I guess getting caught by police beats getting caught by a crocodile.
* Caught with the evidence. A smoking gun, as it were.