What, has the world run out of frozen sharks?
A Miami and Fort Lauderdale Coast Guard crew seized nearly 800 pounds of marijuana from a boat bound from Bimini overnight after finding the illegal cargo sitting on deck in plain sight.
Yeesh. The only thing we've ever smuggled is candy into a movie theatre (items needed: purse, candy) and even we know it's better to stash stuff in a wheel well or body cavity or whatever else, um, floats one's boat.
The Coast Guard says they received tips about a suspicious vessel heading west from the Bahamas, and sent the cutter Diamondback to locate the 20-foot craft and conduct a safety inspection. That safety inspection took all of laying eyes on 47 bricks o' drugs stacked on board, with an estimated street value of $725,000.
The two would-be smugglers were taken to Fort Lauderdale and handed over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Protection, where along with criminal charges they deserve a good strong talking to about their lack of creativity.
With recent drug busts involving imaginative hidey-holes like the aforementioned shark bodies along with cantaloupes, diapers, plaster Jesus statues, chicken cavities, and Michael Douglas' son, we can't help but be extremely disappointed this pair didn't attempt a higher degree of difficulty.
