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Gurukun
Where did they get this idea?! Did they just pull the idea out of thier ass?....Oh, wait....
sayonarajapan
c'mon this is great!....stuffing gold up your arse!! trying to take it to the land of the rising sun...... the sun must have shone out their arse!!
Mirai Hayashi
How did customs find the gold is the real question.
borscht
First, James Bond had to deal with Goldfinger. Now, Gold....
mitoguitarman
Guess the thought of metal detectors never crossed their minds.
shirokuma2011
And imagine the eight of them in a hotel room pre-departure, getting ready for their flight... ugh... "You guys got everything?" "Uhh, let me check..." "No, no, don't..."
Mirai Hayashi
kind of makes you want to think twice before you wear any gold jewelry
Godan
So small beads weren't good enough for this individual. He then graduated to shoving bars of gold up his tukus?! Too funny!
Gurukun
Godan, LOL!
...And also, that S#@$%^T is worth alot of money....literally (^^)
EveningJazz
Maybe one of them farted while waiting in line at customs? :-)
Photoman333
If you wrote this as a fiction story no one would take you seriously.
Dennis Bauer
maybe a laptop with a heavy battery would have been better :p
Sam Dooley
Is that gold up your butt or are you just happy to see me.
Samantha Zoe Aso
@ photoman333. They do say that fact is stranger than fiction. Brings a whole new meaning to shooting bullets.
Think I'll have to start checking the toilet bowls a little more closely next time I go through Narita. Well, after reading this, I'd like to say I've heard it all but there's always tomorrow......
We've had genitals....now bums.....what's next?
Bill Page
Turned out to be a bum job then.
Spidey
Ahh...the old "aurum et asinum" the oldest trick in the book.
S
Ivan Coughanoffalot
"However did you find the evidence, Holmes?"
"Alimentary, my dear Watson"
mokgohan
So who buys gold these days. Well, Hip-hop posers in Tokyo still like to fill their grill with the stuff and where do they get their gold? Black market of course, or Brown Market in this case.
Alphaape
@ Samantha Zoe Aso: A case was just reported in the US about a man smuggling a gun in his rectum into a jail. That would give a new meaning to "shooting bullets" and I guess the guy was a "crack shot."
If they are going to go through the entire porcess of making gold bars into smaller beads, shoving them up your rectum and then when you get to Japan get them all and convert back to bars, wouldn't it be just as easy to pay the damn inport fees? How much are they really going to save?
nath
This method has been used to smuggle drugs into mainland China for many years now.
But gold, passing through high-security airports? Maybe if they wove the gold into thin threads and attached it to some electronic equipment, maybe ... but up the butthole?
I'm just having a good laugh right now imagining the airport security who probably was at a loss on why the metal detector keept beeping, and finally found out what was hidden where.
ribstick
They got the idea from Pulp Fiction (Bruce Willis and his dad's watch).
CrazyJoe
I wonder if any "came" due to stimulation of their prostate gland?
Alistair Carnell
Hey! I wonder if those golden beads were on a thread, and if they enjoyed having them pulled out....Ooh-er ! Sounds dead kinky.
CrazyJoe
This group has about 80 members and already smuggled 1.7 tons of gold into Japan.
Utrack
asinine, there just had to be a better way. How long are they gonna get in the pokey?
tokyokawasaki
Must remember never to get a gold tooth in Japan, might leave a bitter after taste.
FightingViking
...and I thought we only used "suppositoires" in France !
nath
I only thought there were kintama, but this puts a whole new perspective to the use of gold. Kinji? Kayui
viking68
Funny, funny, funny.
Yea, I think I would have just made something common like a pc battery (suggested above) or golf club head.
These guys were really, Taking one (up the butt) for the team.
y3chome
can just imagine in the line, officer using the stick scanner...... everytime passing the bottocks it goes off..... hilarious. Poor customs dude...... double checks triple checks with the metal scanning wand........ uhhh.... gonna hafta go in and get it
anglootaku
Uranus? :P
Jamie Curci Carter
How much are the taxes?
The Munya Times
I think there is a lot of smuggling, most of them are successful and only the stupid are nabbed.
I think there are three kind of crimes:
a./ committed by the stupid that is discovered and the perpetrator is nabbed easily.
b./ committed by the smart and the well prepared ones who arenever get nabbed.
c./ committed by professionals in which case no one even discover that a crime was committed.
Gurukun
Good question. I don't know the percentage, but I guess the taxes are high enough to stuff your ass full of gold bullets. Now that they got cought, I wonder if it was worth the pain and humiliation. Kinda gives the meaning of the word dumb"ass" a new meaning.
gogogo
Gold in Japan (retail) is about 1.5 times more than the rest of the world
hatsoff
They must all have been walking funny and easy to spot. A crappy idea if you ask me.
Elbuda Mexicano
Maybe these Koreans are just hentais?
Patrick Lane
New James Bond villian, Gold Rectum! Man this story is hilarious!
Hategobo
This will turn out to be a Bum wrap
incognito12
Those guys will be the butt of jokes and ridicule for years to come.
doedel
Whow, that's some heavy snit.
PeaceWarrior
This is a distortion of the meaning of gold bottom
BurakuminDes
They all swore that they "slipped in the shower" - that's how the bars got there...
nath
Maybe somebody gave them the Midas touch
Nessie
How could you leave this behind?
nath
Gold jewelery does not set off the detectors. But, you can see through the body in one of those new machines. Golden Bunny Bullets would be easily seen.
Dennis Bauer
sh*..Gold happens :p
NeoJamal
Taxation, my ass!
Familienprobleme
They were taking a long time getting off their shoes and belts and putting their stuff onto trays for the security check. So one security guard exclaimed "Get the lead out of your ass!" And one of the men replied "Its pure gold actually", making the guards suspicious.
So anyway, I never eat the gold leaf flakes they sometimes put on food here in Japan. How about you? And if that realization makes you shocked, recall the story of all the gold they recovered from the sewers in Japan!
zurcronium
I have heard of making bricks but not making bricks out of gold.
Did anyone find my car keys by the way, they have been missing.
sensei258
The whole idea stinks!
Tom DeMicke
What a pain in the ass!
okimike67
I gotta go in for the ole colonoscopy, hope they find some gold up there caus I sure could use the cash.
miyazawa3
are they Japanese?
SpeakJaplish
My sh** don't stink. It shines!!
BurakuminDes
What a crappy ending to their grand plan.
lostrune2
Wish we could shit those kind of bricks!
oginome
Must have felt cold up there.
oberst
here's a free tip for the smuggler, next time use a solid gold baby carrier/carriage ( painted , of course ) with a live baby AND a gorgeous Korean lady. The customer will be all over the lady and just ignore the rest..................
oberst
typo............. customer should read custom agents
Christina O'Neill
8 bums trying to get rich
serendipitous
Rectum? Damn near killed 'em!
catiano
one of my old friends in college did a similar thing. he was cheating exams holding very small pieces of paper with notes written on them busily. he finally got caught on the spot by a professor, but he ate them all. he was saying "you can eat 7 pieces at a time. trust me. i did that." nowhere is more secure to keep a thing at than inside your body.
nath
"Solid gold Anal Beads. When you care enough to give the very best."
TrevorPeace1
nuf said!
midoritori
Interesting turn on the Midas touch "turning gold into sh**"!
cactusJack
I guess they never heard of gold butt plugs.
Andrew Matthews
Oh great. Up to now I have only had to remove my belt and shoes when going through security...
jonobugs
yet another reason why being a custom's agent is a sh***y job.
viking68
Golddigger, the person whose job it is to liberate the gold.
Joselito Asi
Just by the gold but don't smell it.
Ben_Jackinoff
Theirs or someone else's?
nath
So i am assuming that these men are japanese since their nationalities were not mentioned.
nath
Gold is the most valuable thing......that's why you can buy it with paper.
nandakandamanda
Their comment to the press as they were led away; "This recta holiday."
PT24881
False teeth made of pure gold would have made the transits legal ?
LFRAgain
I wonder if this will result in any movements in the market?