Thursday, April 28, 2005

You Want Scrap, You Got Scrap

Now, this is what I call justice.


Bangladeshi customs officials have found luxury cars, large-screen television sets and refrigerators in a container declared to be carrying scrap metal - so they made it just that at a public ceremony on Monday.

Reuters reports that hundreds of people watched as officials from the National Board of Revenue used bulldozers to crush a Mercedes-Benz and a Toyota and other luxury goods at a railway container terminal in Dhaka.

A trading firm had sought to evade customs duties by falsely declaring that the container carried iron scrap.

From The Sydney Morning Herald.

1 comment:

Beth said...

Ouch! That's almost as much a crime as trying to get it past customs in the first place!

BTW, I sent me from my own blog. ;-)