Now for something a little left of centre: The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have arrested two men after detecting $13.5 million worth of methamphetamine inside 14 ‘modified 4WD recovery winches’.
From the images that have been posted up by the ABC, it appears that the cable drums have been removed, and replaced with meth, with steel cable being wrapped around a 1.25kg package of the drug. The AFP have stated that the winches were imported by air freight from overseas and there are further investigations ongoing in Malaysia. The winches in question appear to be of generic eBay/Ali Baba specification, without any brand printed on them, so no local manufacturers or retails have been caught up in the case.
Should you happen to purchase a cheap winch online and find that it starts up, won’t stop, doesn’t sleep, and keeps asking if you’ve got a spare smoke, it might be worthwhile stripping it down to see what’s actually inside of it. Caution is of course advised, as we’re unsure how you would go about explaining that one to the local coppers.
If ever there had been a reason to not buy cheap eBay gear, accidentally getting one of these in the post is probably the ultimate.
Now that we’ve had meth found in winches, what will be next?
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Geez, now in know why my winch kept on veering my car down the white line in the middle of the road?? bloody strong it was too…….
Haha, well done. Unfortunately no suburb, city or state is safe from this horrible scourge. Well done to the AFP for finding this before it made it on to the streets to ruin more lives.
Looks like an inside job
Never miss an opportunity to trash ebay and others, so you can push one of your sponosors..
Million dollars worth in a $400 purchase, seems an eff’ing awesome eBay deal to me 😀
Haha, certainly was.
agree not all ebay stuff is junk most of the products sold even in stores today is made overseas so quality is probably as equal what you buy on ebay as in these stores
hi Alan expect a visiti from the AFP any time soon mate
Is that what they call a high-mount?
They keep coming up with new ways to get their drugs around.
And as stated in other comments, not all Ebay etc equipment is crap. They just don’t have the same greed or overheads.
No matter how steep the hill or what altitude your car can achieve these winches will get you higher.