What would you do for wealth? What are the lengths you are willing to go to for that extra shilling in your pocket? Smuggle gold? Sell drugs? The rat-race clearly makes people go to extreme lengths to make it.

This was seen this past week as a Kenya Airways cabin crew member was found with 23kg of smuggled gold bars worth more than Sh100 million.

According to the Times of India, police found Abdalla Said hiding the bars in his waist belt and kneecaps. Hehehe! The scanners must have been going haywire when he was passing through them. But they could not figure it out. Officer, I have metal spurs in my joints after a knee surgery, that is why the detector is beeping!

Said 29, was arrested on Tuesday while trying to check into a five-star hotel near the international airport. It is reported that his accomplice known as Ibrahim Hussein, 26, was to collect the gold which was handed to the airport's customs officials for investigations

Police said the KQ employee arrived at the hotel at around 7.30 pm and had checked in by 8 pm. But one of the hotel's employees got suspicious as another foreign national kept walking close to him on the premises. The hotel worker immediately alerted police. An officer said.

"Said told us he had easily cleared the customs check at the airport because airline crew members are not frisked physically. Only their baggage is checked."

Preliminary findings showed Said had been staying at a hotel on Mohammed Ali Road in South Mumbai since January 4 and that he had been on a three-month tourist visa. He told police he was a clothes dealer who was in Mumbai on an official tour.

What would you do for that extra shilling?

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