Chinese Smuggler Caught With 94 iPhones Strapped to His Body [Photos]
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Posted January 12, 2015 at 7:06pm by iClarified
A man trying to smuggle 94 iPhones into China by strapping them to his body was recently caught by authorities, reports the Huffington Post.
The smuggler was trying to travel through the Futian Port. His "weird walking posture, joint stiffness, muscle tension" made officials suspicious and he was sent through a metal detector.
The man was trying to bring the iPhones into China from Hong Kong where the devices are cheaper and easier to get a hold of. In China, an unlocked iPhone 6 goes for around $872 compared to $649 in the U.S.
I don't think the guy was traveling by plane, right?
Everyone knows if you are boarding a plane, you need to go through screening or metal detectors right?
Don't you think 94 iPhone would sound the alarm on metal detectors?
Or is the guy after getting his luggage, went to the bathroom and taped all the iPhones to his body?
As far as China was concerned he was traveling within China, and he is a Asian male with valid identity info. If he was a middle eastern person, or even western person that they have never seen before it might have started differently.