
US Customs officials seize nearly 4,000 bongs at DC airport
CNN
US Customs and Border Protection officials seized a shipment of almost 4,000 bongs at Washington Dulles International Airport, the agency said.
The $56,000 shipment arrived from China on October 2 manifested as "gravity pipes," the CBP said in a release Wednesday.
CBP import specialists "confirmed that the glass bongs violated U.S. laws on the importation of drug paraphernalia," the release said.

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