French man arrested for attempting to smuggle his Russian wife in a suitcase

[Larry1]

1) This is NOT a recommended way of getting your wife across the border
2) It must have been a very large suitcase

Polish border guards have detained a French man for attempting to smuggle his Russian wife in a suitcase into Poland from Belarus.

http://www.rferl.org/content/frencvh-man-detained-after-attempt-to-smuggle-russian-wife/26903899.html

Here is more. A large age gap is involved. The guy was 60 and his wife was 30 (not that I'm in a position to condemn that, people who live in glass houses and all).

A 60-year-old Frenchman, apparently desperate to bring his young Russian wife to the European Union, was caught smuggling the woman into Poland in a suitcase, media reports said.

Polish news site Wiadomosci24 reported that the woman lacked the proper documents to enter the Schengen zone, so the couple decided she should hide in a large suitcase during a train journey from Moscow to Nice, France.

After crossing the Belarussian border into the Polish town of Terespol, customs officers became suspicious of the oversized luggage. Inside it they found the scrunched-up woman.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/frenchman-smuggles-russian-wife-into-eu-in-suitcase/517476.html

[mendeleyev]

Cheapskate. He probably could not afford the stamps to send her by mail.

[Hammer2722]

I'm surprised that she would even agree to this. LOL She must have been as desperate as he was.

[jone]

Not the first time a Mule was used as a Pack Mule.

[Boethius]

It appears they were made for another.  Both lacking serious grey matter.

[ML]

He should have married a very small gymnast. They are very flexible.

[Brasscasing]

The only difference between this guy and Mad Vlad smuggling his girlfriend into Switzerland to deliver is this guy got caught (and 200 billion but who's counting).

Brass

[The Natural]

Boy, I sure hope it wasn't Patagonie.......

[AkMike]

This was too funny not to post it.    This is how NOT to do it.!!   

 Frenchman Smuggles Russian Wife Into EU in Suitcase

 A 60-year-old Frenchman, apparently desperate to bring his young Russian wife to the European Union, was caught smuggling the woman into Poland in a suitcase, media reports said.
 Polish news site Wiadomosci24 reported that the woman lacked the proper documents to enter the Schengen zone, so the couple decided she should hide in a large suitcase during a train journey from Moscow to Nice, France.
 After crossing the Belarussian border into the Polish town of Terespol, customs officers became suspicious of the oversized luggage. Inside it they found the scrunched-up woman.
 "Foreigners try to cross the border illegally in many different ways, but this is the first time I've encountered a person hiding in a suitcase," customs spokesman Dariusz Sienicki was quoted as saying.
 Wiadomosci24 reported that the two faced up to three years in prison for the ill-fated smuggling attempt.
 But French newspaper Le Figaro later cited Sienicki as saying that the woman, who was about 30 years old, actually had the right to enter the Schengen zone and would not have been stopped had she not been hiding in a suitcase.
 According to Le Figaro, the couple was allowed to return to Belarus without being criminally charged.
 While this may have been the first time Sienicki had heard of a woman being smuggled in a suitcase, the incident certainly isn't the most bizarre alleged smuggling attempt in recent Russian history.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/...-russian-wife-into-eu-in-suitcase/517476.html

[Patagonie]

The problem came when customs asked him to remove the suitcase from the shelf.

Cannot believe how people are stupid!

[JohnDearGreen]

this guy made it 13000 miles in a box:
http://metro.co.uk/2015/03/06/man-posts-himself-naked-in-box-from-uk-to-australia-5091437/