Japanese Customs - Free Drugs

[SoulKiss]

I am sure everyone heard about this, heres one version from The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/27/japanese_customs_freebie/)

Well someone in Glasgow has a great sense of humour (and an ebay (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130225956974) account)

[G]

How humiliating would it have been if you were the unlucky sod who they had planted it on......AND their sniffer dogs had actually worked.

[SoulKiss]

How humiliating would it have been if you were the unlucky sod who they had planted it on......AND their sniffer dogs had actually worked.

Or imagine if you were just about to get on a connecting flight to a country that takes drug smuggling seriously...

Like locked up for the rest of your life seriously

or made dead seriously...

Apparently the Dutch did this once with 2 bricks of C4 explosives.....

"
Government Interactions
This era has been relatively free of confrontations with the government but there was one “explosive” incident involving a former President, Paul Holloway, who was returning from a conference in Scotland via Amsterdam. All went well until he reached his final destination of Orlando, Florida. There he was met by his wife and found that his suitcase had been damaged. While complaining at the Northwest Airlines baggage counter, he opened the suitcase and found what “looked like two giant bars of ivory soap” which he had not packed! These turned out to be C-4 plastic explosives, the same material which had been used to destroy Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland in 1988! The police were called and eventually Paul was cleared and allowed to go home. The C-4 had been placed in his case by the police in Amsterdam to test the security system, but they forgot to remove it! The Dutch Ministry of Justice later demanded an enquiry and the airport police in Amsterdam apologized profusely. Imagine if this had happened after September 11, 2001! The incident was described in the Mar/Apr 1991 issue of theNewsletter. "

[G]

Blimey never thought of the connecting flight issue........:smt070:smt006

[Biker Biggles]

I bet the customs officer smoked it then forgot where he was meant to plnt it.
Dog gets the blame cos it cant answer back.

[timwilky]

about 10 years ago, the company where I worked had recently vacated our large office block for new premises. I got a phone call from the former estates manager, did I happen to have any keys that may open the cellar air raid shelter

Now it turns out that mr plod had been training his dogs to find cocaine and had hidden them in the building. (It was on a secure site, no staff except for security guards, scheduled for demolition) at the end of the exercise, they somehow managed to drop a quantity into the lift shaft and had to account for the missing quantity. The cellars that provided access to the plant room had been designed for use in the event of an air raid and they were having problems getting past the blast doors.

Eventually they did recover their lost property. But I bet there was some egg of faces