Legend has it that rum runners used them to smuggle liquor during Prohibition.
Because children are seen as less conspicuous, adult traders use them to smuggle illegal commodities like explosives or flour (the export of which Pakistan has forbidden due to its peak price) both in and out of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Or they could mount them on drones and use them to search for underground voids that could eventually evolve into sinkholes, or for humanmade structures such as tunnels used to smuggle drugs.
Instead, gangs were controlling them and using drones to smuggle drugs and other contraband into the north London jail.
In Japan, anger is high against North Korea for using boats to smuggle drugs and kidnap Japanese citizens.
Israel accuses Hamas of using the tunnels to smuggle in weapons used to attack the Jewish state.
At first they were mostly Sudanese, who paid as much $2,000 to be taken to Israel, said Abou Mahmoud, a Sinai Bedouin who said he used to smuggle them.
Sheriff's deputies found the bodies of 17 people early this morning on the outskirts of this southern Texas city, the victims of stifling heat inside a trailer truck that was apparently being used to smuggle them into the United States.
As a 10-year-old, I used to smuggle them back home from the Altrincham branch of WH Smith by concealing a copy of the Sun inside the Manchester Evening News.
There's also advertising encryption startups like Secret Media, using more tech to smuggle ad content past ad blockers.
