Brunei Booze Bust Nets 1,382 Beer Cans On Boat

[underpants]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,499845,00.html

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei — It was a beer run on the high seas.

Brunei's customs officers arrested two men who tried to smuggle 1,382 cans of contraband beer by boat into the Muslim-majority country, a news report said Wednesday.

The men entered Brunei's waters from a neighboring nation Tuesday but tried to flee when they realized they had been spotted, the Borneo Bulletin newspaper reported. It did not identify the neighboring country, but Brunei shares borders with two Malaysian states on Borneo island.

Customs authorities foiled the escape after a high-speed chase, making their biggest seizure of alcohol this year, the report added.

Brunei's laws ban the public sale and consumption of alcohol, though non-Muslim visitors are allowed to bring in limited amounts for private consumption.

[HopeHoops]

1. The smugglers infuriated police by singing "1382 cans of beer on a boat. 1382 cans of beer..."

[DS1]

2. Hey, that's almost 70 bucks in beer can deposit returns!

$140 in Michigan!

[Initech]

7. Were Kramer and Newman driving that truck by any chance?

[petronius]

3. How does that not qualify for the "limited amounts for private consumption"

exemption?

:beer:

[no name no slogan]

5. It didn't come in through legit means

So therefore, the government didn't get to tax it, and it was confiscated for being illegal.

I'm sure if these guys would've gone through customs and gotten the appropriate tax stamp from the Sultan, it would have not been a problem.

[guitar man]

4. 1,382 cans of beer on the boat

1,382 cans of beer, take one down, pass it around.... :silly:

[Parche]

6. USS Parche sailed by there in 1944

:woohoo: :woohoo:

run beer run

[Initech]

8. I'll drink to that!

:toast: :beer:

[eppur_se_muova]

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