Smuggler’s $49,000 iPhone Bodysuit Sets Off Metal Detectors

A Hong Kong man trying to sneak 94 iPhones (with a street value of 300,000 yuan, or $49,000 U.S.) into the Chinese mainland by strapping them on his body was caught.

The man caught the attention of inspectors at the Futian crossing in Shenzhen, a southern Chinese metropolis bordering Hong Kong, when he walked like someone carrying a heavy load despite appearing to travel light, customs officials told CNN on Tuesday.

After finding nothing suspicious in his two plastic shopping bags, officials asked the man to pass through a metal detector -- and the alarm went off.

Customs authorities released this picture that shows dozens of neatly shrink-wrapped shiny iPhones strapped around the man's chest, abdomen, crotch and thighs with duct tape.

An iPhone 6 with 64 gigabytes of storage sells for almost $1,000 on the Chinese mainland but only about $820 in Hong Kong -- and the price difference has created a huge and lucrative black market supplied by smugglers.

No word from Apple about whether there's an app the man could have downloaded that could have made him more stealthy.