Banged up abroad?

noxqs wrote: »

Well I've read packages can be smell proof but I also watched .. was it mythbusters? Trying to hide drugs in coffee, vacuum etc.. Basically didn't work.

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-meet-the-sniffers.html

As much as I hate to say it, Mythbusters does lie on somethings. Such as this, and when they had Adam drive "drunk" when he had only reached the legal limit and his driving was all over the place. They will try to justify laws and stuff like that.

Apanachi wrote: »

Someone I once knew (not personally, but he lived in the same small town as me) was caught off the coast of Martinique on his yacht with another woman with a ton of cocaine with a value of 42 million Euro - that was 5 months ago and AFAIK they are still in prison in Martinique waiting for their process to begin.

That's one hell of a date.

not after seeing the movie, midnight express

CuriousOne wrote: »

Would prefer to spend 10 years in a foreign prison than stay a few months in MountJoy

I doubt it - they only painted over "death to drug dealers" on the walls of Ninoy Aquino airport fairly recently. If you aren't wedged into a small wire mesh cage with fifty other prisoners being fed scraps by charitable strangers through the slats, you get to go into solitary, which is a concrete coffin without enough room to sit up or stretch your arms out on either side. And forget about air conditioning.

I cannot envision what manner of gobshite would risk that. Suppose I should watch the show to find out.

smash wrote: »

Did anyone see the fat chick who decided to smuggle a load of coke from Columbia to the US in exchange for 10k so she could get gastric bypass surgery?

Dumbass of the highest order!

She probably won't be fat when she comes out, so it was a good idea, and she'll also be fluent in Spanish.

Mr. Loverman wrote: »

I've watched all the episodes. This is what I learnt.

1. When at the airport, DO NOT LOOK NERVOUS. This means take a beta blocker (or Xanax, or whatever) to chemically keep you calm, and be doing something like munching on a croissant and drinking a coke as you go through customs.　Ｍｏｓｔ　ｏｆ　ｔｈｅ　ｐｅｏｐｌｅ　ｇｅｔ　ｃａｕｇｈｔ　ｂｅｃａｕｓｅ　ｔｈｅｙ　ｌｏｏｋ　ｎｅｒｖｏｕｓ　ａｔ　ｔｈｅ　ａｉｒｐｏｒｔ．

2. Wrap the drugs around your body rather than put them in the bag, i.e. remove the x-ray machine risk.

3. Don't do the crime unless you're willing to do the time!

What I find most mad is that the people only get paid about $5k to import the drugs. ＮＯＴ　ＷＯＲＴＨ　ＩＴ！！

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i've watched all the eposides and agree, looking nervous is most people's downfall. Stupidy is another.

Another thing i dont get is when they know they are going to be caught when standing in queues or whatever and they see search's or dogs up ahead.Instead of bailing out and head to a jacks to get rid of the stuff they decide it's too late and chance thier luck anyway.

I know if i was in that suitation i would be doing my best to get the hell out of there without trying to be too obvious.

The most unfortuante one i saw was a guy who had coke strapped all around his body, he got through all the security checks and everything when he arrived at the boarding gate and saw another security check.
He did brilliantly and got through this one also and went to walking onto the plane when the security officer just put his hand on his back to direct him towards the ramp and felt the coke underneath his shirt. (edit - Sierra 117 beat me too it!)



The most stupid one was two girls in south america who had huge bricks of coke sewed into the lining of thier suitcase. You could see the outline of the bricks sticking out like a sore thumb through the suitcase!! They still went ahead and were obviously caught at the first security check they met.

Bogata via Bangkok via Amsterdam is my preferred route

Another, I suppose, unfortunate one I saw was a girl in Tokyo. She had met this Israeli lad, and they used to fly to Nepal to buy a kilo of hash for the equivalent of $100 and make about $5,000-$10,000 off it (figures aren't exact obviously as I can't remember fully).

They would break it down and mould into their shoes, in their belts, and she put some in her bra too. 4 times they had absolutely no trouble at all doing it, but this time when the Israeli gave her her take there was a third missing. She kicked up a fuss and told him she needed the money etc, and he said OK he'd go and get it. He never returned.

That should have been her cue to stop, but no. She decided to go back to Nepal, and head straight back home to American from Tokyo with the drugs. This time she bought 2 kilos which would have netted her $30,000 in America. She went to Nepal airport but had gone a day early, kicked up a fuss and was taken into a back room. The inspector bought her story of being stressed out etc that's why she had missed the day. She was immensely lucky to get away with that without being searched. Anyway, she went back the next day and when she went to security they were rigorously frisking the passengers. She made a beeline for the toilet and dumped the extra stuff she was taking so went with her usual amount. She survived the frisk, went to Toyko and got lost in the airport. She asked two pilots that she say where the transfer flights were and they gave her directions. She followed the directions, thinking ''this is it, I've done the hard part'', only to end up walking through the door of customs. The pilots had misunderstood her and given her the wrong directions. Fair enough she thought, they'll just search my bag, I've nothing in there and won't frisk me as I'm a female. They searched through the bag and found a bit of hash that she had put back into her bag the night before as she needed to relax after getting brough to the room in Nepal the night before she had smoked some and forgot to strap it to her after using some :pac: Very careless, and she probably would have even survived customs in Tokyo only for that error.

Of course then they brought her to the room and searched her and found the rest of the stuff.

The prison was awful and I think she served about 5 or 6 years.