Let's Go Do Some Crimes

From Tigerhawk comes this true crime story which somehow slipped past my GoogleNews alerts:

The accused built a 2-kilometre pipeline through a reservoir that marks the Russian-Estonian border, and managed to pump 6,200 litres of spirits across before getting caught.

“It might sound weird and unbelievable but it’s a very real criminal case,” Mari Luuk, a spokesman for Estonian prosecutors, told AFP.

The smugglers – 11 Russians and Estonians – face up to five years in prison if convicted.

Entrepreneurship isn’t dead in Eastern Europe. It’s just sleeping it off.