Monkey Mayhem by Mail: When Comic Books Sold Live Monkeys for $19
— May 11, 2026In the golden age of comic books—roughly the 1950s through the early 1970s—kids flipping…
When you hear about ingenious schemes like this, you just know that they drug cartels are pulling things off like this successfully all of the time. A shipment of powdered soup packets arrived at Washington’s Dulles International Airport in 2010 and came under suspicion of customs officials. When examined, the packets were found to contain more than soup. Nearly 2,000 grams of cocaine was discovered in the packets, which was estimated to be worth about $140,000.
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