Drug running - Tajikistan style!

My primary news site has always been, and still is, CNN. However,

the Reuters website is starting to move up in the ranks, thanks to

some pretty offbeat stories that they carry in their "Oddly Enough"

section. I found the latest tidbit from there this morning. A 26 year

old woman in the very poor former Soviet republic of Tajikistan was

arrested this week for trying to smuggle heroin inside a refrigerator

through the express mail delivery firm DHL. An official at the DHL

office in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, got suspicious when he noticed

that the price to ship the appliance to Moscow far exceeded the

actual cost of the fridge. Police were brought in to investigate; what

they discovered was over 17 kilos (about 28 pounds) of heroin

stashed inside the inner cover plate of the fridge. Tajikistan shares

a border with Afghanistan, which just happens to be the world's

largest producer of opium (or its refined form, heroin). Guess the

Tajiks will have to try FedEx or UPS for their 'shipping' needs

next time! I can see the new ad slogan now - 'What can 'Brown'

run for you?'