Declaring Cars as Scrap? Customs Makes It True (From the PWNED category)

[Angel_Mapper]

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladeshi customs officials found luxury cars, large-screen television sets and refrigerators in a container declared to be carrying metal scrap -- so they made it just that at a public ceremony on Monday.



Hundreds of people watched as officials from the National Board of Revenue (NBR) used bulldozers to crush a Mercedes Benz and a Toyota car and other luxury goods at a railway container terminal in Dhaka.

NBR chairman Khairuzzaman Chowdhury said a trading firm had sought to evade customs duties by falsely declaring that the container carried iron scrap.

"They wanted to befool us by saying they brought in scrapped metals...so we are giving them the same. They, or anyone like them, will not forget this," he told reporters at the site.

Cash-strapped Bangladesh is trying hard to increase domestic revenue ahead of announcing the budget for the 2005-06 fiscal year, beginning next July.

Officials say tax revenues were 9 percent short of target in the first nine month of the current 2004-05 fiscal year, partly owing to lower-than-expected import taxes.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ladesh_cars_dc









PWNED

[CJHobbes]

That's....entirely....


AWESOME!

Now to get back to cutting off hands if you're caught stealing, then we'll be good.

[Freakish]

Great story!

[Kel]

ROFL @ richy bastages getting owned
and...
ROFL @ the owned pic

[Superchaz]

Toyota car

Must have been a Supra, because Toyotas arent exactly "expensive" in the auto world.

Anywho, i wonder what happened to the cars after they destroyed them? Personally, i think it'd be pretty dang funny to see the expressions on their faces after they see what has been done to their vehicles! =)

[Kindness]

I don't understand why they didn't sell the stuff and keep the cash instead of destroying it.



No wonder they're 9 percent short of target in the first nine month of the current fiscal year; at this rate they won't be catching up anytime soon.

[Dorkorama]

Originally Posted by Kindness

I don't understand why they didn't sell the stuff and keep the cash instead of destroying it.

More profitable in the short run, yes. It would not have been anywhere as strong a point, though. Destroying the cargo likely will get them more money from properly declared manifests than they would have gotten from seized goods.