Sometimes You Have to Smuggle Pork Into Saudi Arabia
Sabra over at Stilettos in the Sand blog has a great post about her and her husband trying to get through customs with 20 pounds of pork products. If caught, the meat would have been confiscated and they could have faced punishment- maybe even the lash.
The Custom’s guy had to go get another guy – who had to get another guy – and all of the sudden there were three of them going through every item we purchased and pulling the seats up in the back of our truck [it is a Tahoe – I call it a truck]. I remained in the front seat and one of them grabbed a box that was on the floor under the driver’s seat from the back and said, “What is this?” I don’t know what it is. No clue. I say, “It is tools.” He instructs me to open it. I did. Phew. Completely innocuous. It is the headphones that go to the television screen for passengers in the back seat. I knew we weren’t smuggling “real” contraband into the country – just bacon and sausage and pork chops and roasts… I mean, come on. It’s not like we had a case of beer or several fifths of vodka. We’re not stupid!
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Why thanks for posting this, Belch! What a surprise to come here and see the picture of our bacon and our Hot Links and our Kielbasa and pork chops – oh, and Miracle Whip – on our kitchen table…
Hope all is good with you and family. Baby “C” has gotten SOOO big – and SOOO cute – but I’m sure I don’t have to tell you, that, do I!?
“……It’s not like we had a case of beer or several fifths of vodka. We’re not stupid!”
Well the drink at least would have been worth the lashes ….so yes you were even more stupid to risk entry, a job if you had one… if not more just for some pieces of pork ! Thats what I call desperate and stupid !