As wrote the folks at Antara News, “Officials at Sagami’s head office have said that the prophylactics, which it bills as being 14 percent thinner than conventional ones, are worth 1.5 million dollars at Japanese retail prices.” Tip of the hat to the folks at uShip’s “Ship Happens” blog for the scoop, as it were.
What’s not humorous in any fashion is the rise in theft incidents in North America. We’ve reported on it extensively here in sincere fashion, and the folks at Freightwatch, with some of the best national tracking of the problem in recent years, recently reported numbers from last year that showed thieves shifting from high-value loads to perishables toward another disturbing record year for theft incident numbers. Read the full report.