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Way #6 Fake Carrots - 10000 ways to smuggle drugs

These aren't the carrots Bugs Bunny was chomping on. U.S. border officers seized more than a ton of marijuana stuffed into fake carrots tossed in with the real thing, officials said.

Officers in Pharr, Texas, on Sunday found 2,493 pounds of suspected marijuana concealed within a commercial shipment of fresh carrots entering from Mexico.

"Once again, drug smuggling organizations have demonstrated their creativity in attempting to smuggle large quantities of narcotics across the U.S.-Mexico border," said in a statement.

Seized marijuana in U.S. law enforcement trucks.The truck hauling the produce crossed the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge along the Texas-Mexico border near the Gulf of Mexico. The imaging inspection system flagged the vehicle for a secondary examination, where agents found the smuggled drugs, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection statement.

Police say smelly marijuana plants led to driver's arrest

Almost 3,000 carrot-shaped packages were discovered mixed in with real carrots. Officers were able to fill up the beds of two pickup trucks with the seized contraband. The estimated street value of the marijuana is $499,000.

The case is under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security.

Way #5 Fake Watermelons - 10000 ways to smuggle drugs 

Authorities pulled over a tractor trailer carrying watermelons in Arizona. Upon further inspection, they got one hell of a surprise: not only were the watermelons fake, they contained millions of dollars worth of marijuana.

Way #4 Over the fence - 10000 ways to smuggle drugs

Suspected Mexican drug smugglers who used ramps to try to drive over a US border fence were forced to abandon the plan after their car got stuck, US officials have revealed.

The two suspects were spotted by border agents earlier this week as they tried to move the Jeep sitting atop the 14ft (4.3m) fence on the California border.

They then decided to ditch the vehicle and fled back into Mexico.

The agents believe the suspects tried to smuggle marijuana across the border.

The car was found empty, but it was probably filled with bales of drugs before it got stuck, the US border authorities believe.

A similar daring smuggling scheme was tried on the US-Mexico border last year, but the suspects were captured.

Way #3 Middle-Age / 10000 ways to smuggle drugs

Border Patrol agents in Arizona thwarted some clever drug smugglers and dismantled a drug catapult used to launch marijuana into the United States from Mexico.

The catapult was attached to the top of a border fence near the Douglas Port of Entry, which is about two hours southeast of Tucson, Customs and Border Protection officials said in a statement Tuesday. The device appeared to be constructed of square tubing and a heavy spring welded together, with rope tied around parts of it.

The contraption probably wouldn't win any pumpkin chunkin competition, but it was powerful enough to sling two bundles of weed -- weighing a combined 47 pounds -- into the United States from Mexico.Agents made the discovery on February 10, when they approached several people near the fence, who then ran away.They searched the area and found the drugs nearby.

Way #2 Ultra-Light - 10000 ways to smuggle drugs

Two ultra-light aircrafts, which were allegedly used to smuggle narcotics into the United States, have been seized in Baja California. According to authorities, the first discovery was on Tuesday, July 16, after a loud noise alerted police of a crashed aircraft in the Mexicali Valley. The second discovery occurred less than 24 hours later. A similar aircraft hit an airline and crashed near Los Algodones. No suspects were arrested.

Ultra-light aircrafts are frequently used to drop narcotics over the U.S. border from northeast Baja California and Sonora.

Way #1 Frozen Sharks - 10000 ways to smuggle drugs

The lengths to which drug smugglers will go to conceal their consignments was revealed when the Mexican navy said it had seized more than a tonne of cocaine stuffed inside frozen shark carcasses.

Masked naval officers cut open more than 20 carcasses filled with slabs of cocaine after checking a cargo ship in a container port in the state of Yucatan. X-ray machines and sniffer drugs led them to the stash.

"We are talking about more than a tonne of cocaine that was inside the ship," said navy commander Eduardo Villa yesterday . "Those in charge of the shipment said it was a conserving agent but after checks we confirmed it was cocaine."

Drug gangs tapping the lucrative US market have been forced to come up with more imaginative methods of getting drugs to North America such as in sealed beer cans, religious statues and furniture, in the face of a crackdown by the Mexican military.

President Felipe Calderon has tasked 45,000 troops and federal police with crushing the powerful smuggling cartels responsible for a surge in violence across the country that has spilled over into US states such as Arizona, creating concern in Washington.

At a remote mountaintop site in the northern state of Sinaloa yesterday, the Mexican navy showed reporters one of the largest methamphetamine labs ever found in the country with enough ephedrine to produce more than 40 tonnes of the drug, estimated to be worth $1.4bn (£900,000). But despite the efforts of government forces the gangs remain strong. Some 2,750 people have died in drug violence in Mexico this year, a rate similar to last year, when 6,300 were killed.

Led by Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, smugglers from the Pacific state of Sinaloa are fighting a turf war with rivals over smuggling routes into the US.