Smugglers Secretly Repairing Roads to Boost Business

[presence]

Aug 24, 2016

Smugglers Secretly Repairing Russian Roads to Boost Business

Gangs smuggling goods into Russia have secretly repaired a road on the Belarussian border in order to boost business, the TASS news agency reported Monday.

Smugglers have transformed the gravel track in the Smolensk region in order to help their heavy goods vehicles traveling on the route, said Alexander Laznenko from the Smolensk region border agency. The criminal groups have widened and raised the road and added additional turning points, he said.
The road, which connects Moscow to the Belarussian capital of Minsk, is known to be used by smugglers wishing to avoid official customs posts and is now under official surveillance.

A convoy of trucks was recently stopped on the road carrying 175 tons of sanctioned Polish fruit worth 13 million rubles ($200,000). The produce was subsequently destroyed, TASS reported.

Local border guards, customs and police officers have checked over 73,000 vehicles entering Russia from Belarus this year, Laznenko said, claiming that the number of heavy goods vehicles crossing the border from Belarus has increased dramatically in the last year, he said.

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/traffickers-repair-russian-road-used-for-smuggling-55065

 

[jkr]

MUH
Roadski!

 

[tod evans]

Whodda thunk?

 

[presence]

 

[Bman]

Well at least we now have an official response to the "but who will build the roads" question.

 

[tod evans]

Well at least we now have an official response to the "but who will build the roads" question.

The mafia people choose to support instead of the mafia they're forced to support..

 

[fisharmor]

The fail overfloweth on this story.

Heroin? Cigarettes? Elephant ivory? Sex slaves?

No.... fruit. Motherfucking fruit.
From a country right the fuck next door.

 

[tod evans]

The fail overfloweth on this story.

Heroin? Cigarettes? Elephant ivory? Sex slaves?

No.... fruit. Motherfucking fruit.
From a country right the fuck next door.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

Fruit is getting people rich enough to afford vices and fix the roads..

 

[Origanalist]

The fail overfloweth on this story.

Heroin? Cigarettes? Elephant ivory? Sex slaves?

No.... fruit. Motherfucking fruit.
From a country right the fuck next door.

And they destroyed it..http://tass.ru/ekonomika/2170146

 

[Madison320]

I consider myself a libertarian but I don't see how you can completely privatize all roads. Unless you had a helicopter you'd always have to get permission to leave your property.

 

[TheTexan]

How were they able to build a road without even a permit?

Makes no sense.

 

[bunklocoempire]

I consider myself a libertarian but I don't see how you can completely privatize all roads. Unless you had a helicopter you'd always have to get permission to leave your property.

I consider myself an agreeable person. I can promote mutually beneficial relationships and get places without a third party's permission.

Just ask my neighbors who encourage me to come onto their property with weapons to eradicate pests 24-7.

I was curious, and for conversation I did ask my neighbor what he thought of a private jeep trail following common property lines that property owners would give 10' or so for, he was cool with it.

We live in an AG 5 designated area, and our "public road of aggression" is a poorly paved, mostly one-lane affair with turn outs. We pay the same taxes and fees as people who live on two lane much improved roads.

Disagreeable people use other people's resources to travel. Being an agreeable person doesn't make sense in a system of aggression, and that's where it all starts to go to heck.

Why should I cultivate mutually beneficial relationships when there is no incentive to do so? And I already need permission to leave the property -a drivers license that guarantees NOTHING except a bunch of idiots on the road who could not have gotten there any other way.

 

[presence]

I consider myself a libertarian but I don't see how you can completely privatize all roads. Unless you had a helicopter you'd always have to get permission to leave your property.

Just because something is privatized doesn't mean its unencumbered. The power company has easement to pass a line through my land. I have easement to lay and relay pipe to a spring two parcels away. My neighbor has easement to access a land locked parcel through my other neighbors land. Likewise Hoppe asserts privatized roads would be encumbered by rights of way. Also, just because some roads are privatized doesn't mean many others couldn't be common without being public.

see: http://libertarianpapers.org/wp-content/uploads/article/2011/lp-3-1.pdf