August 11, 2007

A curious way to try to smuggle yourself into Canada

As a monk from THE Shaolin Temple. From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
China: Bogus martial arts masters nabbed
A dozen Chinese teenagers have been caught in a failed plot to sneak into Canada by masquerading as kung fu masters from the famous Shaolin Temple, state media reported Friday.

The 12 had no martial arts experience but joined a team of genuine kung fu performers from a school in Henan province, also home to the 1,500-year-old temple, that was leaving for a tour of Canada, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

They had paid up to $90,000 each to a human smuggler, or "snakehead," and two coaches from the martial arts school who often accompany students on trips abroad, Xinhua said.

The teenagers, ages 17 to 19, had a one-day training session at a hotel on June 24 to learn the basics of the art of Chinese lion dancing, Xinhua said.

The group was stopped less than a week later while trying to enter Hong Kong after border guards' suspicions were aroused, but the report did not give any details.
Heh... One day of training isn't going to give you any of the sense of balance and poise that several years of training 24/7 does. The Shaolin Temple turns out some amazing people, these mokes were not fit to empty its outhouses... The snakehead was arrested -- good news there. Posted by DaveH at August 11, 2007 10:29 PM
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