https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/10/27/police-discover-us-369000-truck-tire-penas-blancas-border-crossing/ Costa Rica's Leading English Language News Source Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2 https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/10/27/police-discover-us-369000-truck-tire-penas-blancas-border-crossing/#comment-12930 duke ster Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:54:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=19742#comment-12930 Wait a minute..maybe my mind is slipping but when do they search you when arriving to Costa Rica? They search you in USA when you are leaving and boarding the plane right?

]]> https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/10/27/police-discover-us-369000-truck-tire-penas-blancas-border-crossing/#comment-12929 duke ster Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:45:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=19742#comment-12929 Here is an idea, why not buy gold or silver, melt it and pour into forms of tools etc, paint the tools or parts and or cover with liquid rubber ( as in the hammer handles) or pour into hollowed out wooden handles of axes, etc.- I’ll bet I could have fun disguising alot of golden tools….Ok back from the fantasy……
Question is how do border guards have the time to open all spare tires of all trucks at a border crossing?
I traveled from Costa Rica all the way to Guatemala with a convoy of 2 tractor trailers full of chatarra ( scrap metal) to take to Guatemala because Guatemala has the only smelting furnace close to CR..
For all I know the Tico I went with WAS transporting cocaine northward.
Anyway we weren’t searched for anything in these huge mountains of scrap metal and yet these border guards searched in a spare tire of a truck?
Something isn’t right here.-I also walked across several borders–back and forth back and forth-between 2 or 3 countries-and no one even seemed to notice me -much less ask for any form of ID.
Also I drove from CR to Panama ( without even the necessary permissions) and coming back I wasn’t even noticed and had to get out of my car and get their attention to clear me to cross back. THey waved me through and didn’t even glance at my car much less search it. I could have had a trunk full of contraband.
Isn’t that how it goes….and then we happen to have some silly thing like nail clippers at some point and they get all over us like we are top criminals

]]> https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/10/27/police-discover-us-369000-truck-tire-penas-blancas-border-crossing/#comment-12927 duke ster Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:31:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=19742#comment-12927 Hey we put $2 million in that tire!

]]> https://www.insidecostarica.com/2015/10/27/police-discover-us-369000-truck-tire-penas-blancas-border-crossing/#comment-12913 Chris Thomas Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:19:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=19742#comment-12913 And the politicians and the cops will steal all of it, the top officials of course.

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