According to a new report from MicGadget, a group of Chinese smugglers went all out in devising an elaborate transport system to get iPads and iPhones across the border and into China.
Customs in Hong Kong and China have discovered and busted a smuggling operation which carried iPhones and iPad across a river using a long cable shot by a crossbow. The smugglers would send the products along the zip-line at night in black nylon bags. The devices were carried several hundred meters from a small village house in Hong Kong to a high-rise building in Shenzhen where the zip-line ended.
In the end, 6 smugglers were arrested, over 50 each of iPhone 4s and iPad 2s were seized, valued at nearly 300,000 yuan (or about 46,583 USD). Frankly, despite the questionable nature of the smuggling, I applaud the ingenuity of the smugglers for coming up with such a system!