Animal smuggling isn’t a new phenomenon, unfortunately. But pants smuggling is something a tad more unusual.
Kai Xu, a Canadian citizen, was caught at the Detroit border attempting to enter Canada with 51 live, and endangered, turtles taped to his legs. Fortunately for the turtles, there was a pretty huge giveaway: his bulging sweatpants. Also, the US Fish and Wildlife Service had been watching him and felt he was acting suspiciously. As The Guardian reports:
On 5 August, two fish and wildlife agents say they watched Xu disappear behind two semi-trailers in a Detroit parking lot for about 10 minutes before reappearing with, “irregularly shaped bulges under Xu’s sweatpants on both legs”.
Xu was later stopped by Canadian border patrol after he drove through the Detroit to Windsor, O...
