Bizarre Methods Used by Drug Smugglers

When it comes to avoiding the beady eyes of border officers, you can't say they didn't try.

These are the bizarre methods used by the world's drug smugglers to stow away their hauls - but all of them were caught before they could cross the border.

The cleverest failed missions have included cocaine bras, wigs and nappies, cannabis garden hoses and heroin thigh bandages.

 

Some of the most unusual have been released by customs officers working in two busy airports on the U.S. east coast.

They reveal the desperate and inspired lengths smugglers will go to in their attempts to pass muster at New York's JFK Airport and Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey.  

In China, a 64-year-old smuggler tried to sneak 5kg of cocaine into the vice capital Macau by secreting more than 100 tiny packages of the drug into little pockets in his trousers.

And the border between the U.S. and Mexico is where officials see some of the most brazen attempts to bring drugs into the country.

In June 2009, a 30-year-old Mexican man was even arrested trying to smuggle more than 10kg of marijuana ashore on a surfboard.