Crossbows and ziplines used to smuggle iPads into Hong Kong

Some Asian smugglers tried a creative new method to get iPads and iPhones from mainland China into neighboring Hong Kong. Rather than hire housewives to do their dirty work, this group used a crossbow to shoot a zipline from a Shenzhen skyscraper across the Sha Tau Kok river to a small house in Hong Kong. Once the fishing line was secured, bags filled with iPhone 4s and iPads were shuttled across the river at night using a rudimentary pulley system.

Police detected the line, arrested six people and confiscated more than 50 iPhones and iPads worth 300,000 Yuan ($46,600).

[Via MICGadget and TechCrunch]

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Some Asian smugglers tried a creative new method to get iPads and iPhones from mainland China into neighboring Hong Kong. Rather than...

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hinirizla

Yeah, I wondered about that... it seems odd that Hong Kongers wouldn't be able to get their hands on one, when almost every computer center here has it in stock now. But it totally makes sense the other way around. There is no store in Southern China, and definitely not in Shenzhen. (Its funny to think they are smuggling it in to the city where Foxconn is based). Love the ingenuity though! I could be wrong, but I feel like its gotta be the mainlanders that thought of this one

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