This was a popular postcard back in the early 1970's.
Posted on 11/13/2009 1:10:39 PM PST by Red Badger
More than £1 million worth of counterfeit cigarettes filled with rabbit droppings instead of tobacco have been confiscated by customs officials in Spain.
The fake cigarettes - due to be sold on the black market as famous brands - were discovered after British holidaymakers in the Canary Islands smelled a rat whenever they lit up.
"They stunk. They smell just as you'd imagine burning poo to smell," said one customs official in Tenerife.
Police and customs staff arrested 12 smugglers in an undercover operation to intercept the cigarettes as they landed on a boat from China.
"They not only smell bad but the toxic chemicals they give off are pure poison," explained a customs official.
Ever eated rabbit? Better flavor than chicken.
Dorals: Taste Me! Taste Me! Come on and Taste Me!
L&M: Just what the doctor ordered
This was a popular postcard back in the early 1970's.
Civets.........
My dog pees on the tomatoes...................
What's a rabbit-poo cigarette worth, anyway? How many does it take to be £1 million?
They can’t possibly be any worse than the Celtas (black tobacco) cigs I used to smoke when downtown and ran out of my “tobacco rubia”.
Read a good idea the other day about putting a worm farm below your rabbit hutches. The worms love the poo and turn it into really good fertilizer.
Yeah, how do you hold the rabbit still enough to get it to poop on the paper? :)
“Is this like the “Horse Sh*t Cigarettes” they used to sell in the Mexican border towns?”
I may still have a pack of those laying around in some drawer. Those curio shops used to sell some amazing kitsch that was so bad it was funny. I regret never buying some of the stuffed frogs playing musical instruments.
“I regret never buying some of the stuffed frogs playing musical instruments.”
Hey, take your life in your hands and cross the bridge at Del Rio - they’re all over the place! I think there’s even a stuffed-frog nativity. Talk about your kitsch!
Colonel, USAFR
I once saw a froggy bar scene that beat all.
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