It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No… It’s a heroin smuggler!
This post was published 4 years 2 months 17 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.I just watched Harold & Kumor Go to White Castle which is probably why I found this story slightly amusing. The fact that this guy was shot isn’t what makes me chuckle. It’s the heroin smuggling part that sounds funny.
A hang-gliding heroin-smuggler has been shot down by soldiers over the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan, one of the world’s busiest drug trafficking frontiers. Tajik border guards shot the glider down with machine guns and recovered 18kg (39lb) of heroin from the vehicle, [...] The airborne trafficker is thought to be a repeat offender. One border official said guards had been trying to shoot the vehicle down for three years.
This hang-gliding is like a freakin’ sitting duck. Soldiers with trigger happy machine guns on the ground, and a slow ass hang-glider (powered or not) in the sky. Extreme sports enthusiasts probably want to stay away from Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
