Drug smugglers can sometimes get a bit too creative with their methods, but one guy just outdid them all.
An Arab man was recently arrested in Dubai for allegedly trying to smuggle 5.75 million drug pills into the country, according to Gulf News.
How? By hiding the stimulants inside sheep intestines. His plan, however, did not go as expected and he was eventually caught out by customs at the Jebel Ali Port.
The drugs - weighing almost 1,000 kgs - were seized by Dubai Customs officers at the port, who found the amphetamine pills inside a container.
The suspect - who works as a sale's agent for a sheep trading company - was accused of placing the pills inside plastic bags prior to stuffing them inside sheep intestines.
The sheep intestines were being stored in barrels, and were meant to be sent to a Dubai warehouse.
The sales agent's brother sent him 16,161 dirhams ($4,400) to get the shipment cleared.
The smuggler was then meant to hand over the shipment to another person in return for 5,000 dirhams.
Not the first creative attempt at drug smuggling in the Arab world
In 2016, a Saudi man was >busted for attempting to smuggle 1,997 captagon pills and 115 grams of hashish into Jeddah's main prison via drone.
The unidentified man was sentenced to 15 years in prison and 1,500 lashes.
Despite the severe punishment, the prosecutor wasn't impressed, arguing that the court should have executed the main defendant. Serious drug offenders often receive the death penalty in the kingdom.
Drug smuggling is not just limited to narcotics. In 2015, Saudi police >confiscated 48,000 beer cans disguised with Pepsi labels at the Al Batha crossing between the UAE and the kingdom.
After undergoing the standard customs procedure, the fake cans were discovered.