(Weird Scandinavia:) Swedish 'kebab smuggler' arrested in Norway

www.thelocal.se ^ | 11/02/2007 | The Local

[WesternCulture]

A Swede has been arrested for trying to smuggle 655 kilos of kebab meat into Norway, Norwegian media have reported.

Norwegian police say the man had stuffed the back seat and the trunk with white plastic 'sausages' filled with meat. The man was reported to have reinforced the car's suspension so that the car would not look weighed down.

The man said he had been offered cash payment to take the meat to Oslo, according to Dagens Nyheter.

As Norway is not in the EU the amount of meat that can be taken into the country from Sweden is limited to 10 kilos.

A Norwegian customs officer told the broadcaster NRK that the smuggling attempt was picked up in a routine check near the Svinesund Bridge, which links Sweden with its westerly neighbour.

[Kolokotronis]

Lebanese bringing the meat in for a church festival?

[Squawk 8888]

Not a Swedish kebab smuggler ping.

[dljordan]

Damn! A sausage bootlegger! Who’d have thunk?

[Doctor Raoul]

The guy was just playing “Hide the salami”.

[Kay Ludlow]

Smuggling is generally the result of the government interfering with the market. Apparently Norway has ‘protected’ local meat from cheaper EU meat so strongly that it’s making sense to smuggle. Same thing as smuggling cigarettes from low-tax states into high-tax states. It’s an inevitable part of the natural law of supply and demand.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

“I’ll be home for lefse...”

[Balding_Eagle]

He got Skewerd!

[elephantlips]

This answers the question, “what does Sandy Berger do in the off-season?”