{"id":30599,"date":"2010-04-14T20:15:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T03:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=30599"},"modified":"2010-04-14T20:37:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T03:37:15","slug":"drug-smugglers-enter-dakar-rally-lose-both-race-and-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=30599","title":{"rendered":"Drug smugglers enter Dakar Rally, lose both race and truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s an idea that&#8217;s one part skulduggery, one part idiocy and one part &#8217;80s road comedy starring Burt Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The story: A gang of drug runners needed to move some product from Argentina to Spain without drawing a lot of attention. Now, you could do the traditional under-cover-of-darkness route, or you could hide in plain sight by stashing your drugs in a car that&#8217;s running in one of the world&#8217;s most famous races.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(Very important disclaimer: that car above is NOT the one the drug-runners used. That&#8217;s BMW&#8217;s Stephane Peterhansel and Jean Paul Cottret of France.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s how it went down. This crew of unconventional drug runners\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/blog\/from_the_marbles\/post\/Drug-smugglers-enter-Dakar-Rally-lose-both-race?urn=nascar,233924\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an idea that&#8217;s one part skulduggery, one part idiocy and one part &#8217;80s road comedy starring Burt Reynolds. The story: A gang of drug runners needed to move some product from Argentina to Spain without drawing a lot of attention. Now, you could do the traditional under-cover-of-darkness route, or you could hide in plain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30599"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30602,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30599\/revisions\/30602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}