In article <4t86i2t1vod3ri7gkbr2lmdkl4hdnb0dlc@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:

http://funreports.com/fun/02-10-2006/1411-alcohol-0

Smart Russian villagers passed an alcohol tube into Latvia
2006/10/02

Creative local residents from Buholovo village passed a 1.5 km – long
alcohol conductor into Latvia all the way through a border territory
that includes a river. Priceless deposit was accidentally discovered by
the Latvian hunters who raised an alarm while planting tress in the
area.

Last week shouts of the Letts from the other side of the Utroya River
surprised the Russian border patrol. One of the shouters was waving his
arms and pointing at a strange discovery. Apparently these hunters came
across a tube of 2.5 cm in diameter reaching across the river from the
Russian territory and emitting a firm odor.

According to the Sergey Nitsenko, the head of Pytalovskiy border unit,
detailed investigation is led on both sides but so far it has brought no
results. Russian policemen complain blame the Letts’ hasty actions for
the lack of evidence. Police officer Yakov Kabanov explained that if
they had waited for some time in ambush they would have caught the
perpetrators red-handed.

In order to lay down the alcohol conductor, resourceful Russian
villagers stretched the tube across the river bottom and then buried it
20-25 cm underground. “Even though I have been suspecting that they had
something of this sort here I still had a really hard time finding it,”
Kabanov says, “If it weren’t for the accident the pipe would have stayed
here for another 20 years.”

Pravda.ru

LOL! If I understand the dodgy translation correctly, some Russian
moonshiners found a novel way of exporting their product.