316,000 Bongs Seized by Feds

Do you feel safer now? So glad our borders are being protected.

316,000 Bongs, Disguised As Christmas Ornaments, Seized By Customs Agents In LA

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LOS ANGELES — Customs officials say they got a surprise when they found 316,000 glass bongs disguised as Christmas ornaments at the Los Angeles harbor.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday that agents found the highly decorated drug pipes in 860 boxes shipped from China. The cargo, estimated to be worth more than $2.6 million, had been described as glass figures and Christmas ornaments.
The bongs were seized Tuesday at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex.
Customs spokeswoman Cristina Gamez says the importer remains under investigation and there have been no arrests. She says it is illegal to import or export drug paraphernalia in the United States.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/20/316000-bongs-disguised-as_n_365181.html

what b.s.! those could be tobacco bongs!!

JN811 said:

what b.s.! those could be tobacco bongs!!

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I don't know if I'd trust a bong from china, probably laced with lead.

JN811 said:

what b.s.! those could be tobacco bongs!!

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if they where for tobacco they would be called "water pipes" not bongs.

diabolicaldrugs said:

if they where for tobacco they would be called "water pipes" not bongs.

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Oh really is that what classifies the difference between the two? Thank you for sharing your useless information

sombody lost a lot of money there. thanks uncle sam! the system works great

sweetsmell said:

Oh really is that what classifies the difference between the two? Thank you for sharing your useless information

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Thanks for your useless contribution, captain cool guy.

What are all those violent pot heads going to do without their BONGS/WATERPIPES!!!! God forbid fuck up the nomenclature.

There are head shops all over America why are they stopping a shipment of pipes! Waste of Taxpayer money!

You don't use bongs to decorate?

h.h. said:

You don't use bongs to decorate?

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this is my new favorite candy dispenser!!! lol

That priceless man... awsome

doitinthewoods said:

Thanks for your useless contribution, captain cool guy.

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Only hope to be as cool as you when I grow up .

the laws for bongs and pipes is so weird. Also, you have to prove that the end user is buying them to smoke something illegal. I don't see how clean bongs can be confiscated.

Punk said:

the laws for bongs and pipes is so weird. Also, you have to prove that the end user is buying them to smoke something illegal. I don't see how clean bongs can be confiscated.

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I remember reading something about water pipes being shipped here but they only had one hole in them which was the top, if they had two then they couldnt come in or something? Then they would just heat a tool up and shape the second hole once they got in

Maybe someone can put up what i'm thinking of, I read it somewhereeee but was probably high

Thats why you gotta buy American made bongs. Why support China? Fuck them. Support your local glass blowers!!

h.h. said:

You don't use bongs to decorate?

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wut a gr8 gift idea for my roomate, dood thanks for the idea!

lol.... that's a great pic... i'm so high i almost fell back in the computer chair... woah!!!

that'll stop em from smoken that pot....such a stupid country the way we let head shops do business and stop shipments of smoking pipes....wonder why we are in a depression...yes depression....The feds. wont let the media use the correct term....kind of like the stupid bong/water pipe thing...

weed monkey said:

sombody lost a lot of money there. thanks uncle sam! the system works great

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hahaha nice