SMUGGLERS' BLUES

[HairOfTheDog]

CRACK COCAINE



Now that's crack cocaine.

People are strange (and sometimes lazy and greedy).

I'm surprised HBO or Showtime hasn't come up with a good drama about creative smugglers, though truth is probably stranger than fiction in some of these cases.

I keep thinking about that couple who were smuggling immigrants at $5k each. They had a U-Haul, 20 people on board, and two old mattresses. Even considering the cost of gas, that's very low overhead. Had the morons considered ventilation, bottled water, and fruit wraps, they coulda made it work and cleared an easy $95k (before whatever pay-offs are involved). One run a month and they might have banked a million annually.

I'd never really thought about how lucrative something like that could be to organized traffickers and how that might factor into the problem of illegal immigration before.