Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/08/apple_smugglers_caught_in_china/
iPad racketeers' high wire exploits falter
Jobs on the line
Posted in Tablets, 8th August 2011 10:49 GMT
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Chinese smugglers have been caught transporting a host of Apple goods over a zip-line into Hong Kong in a bid to profit from tax differences.
Using a crossbow, the perpetrators fired a fishing line from a skyscraper in Shenzhen over the Sha Tau Kok river and into a small house in Hong Kong.
The team then filled nylon bags full of iPhone 4s and iPad 2s [1], before pulleying them across ahead of daybreak, Gizchina reports.
Unfortunately for the would-be profiteers, someone spotted the line and custom officers swooped, confiscating more than 50 devices worth 300,000 Yuan (£28k). Little supplies there then.
If only the smugglers had attached plastic cups to the end of each line, they could have warned one another about a police bust instantly. ®