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Banged up abroad?

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  • #62
    endabob1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 914 ✭✭✭endabob1


    There's a great book called Marching Powder which is a detailed account of what it's like to be in prison in Bolivia for coke smuggling
    Scarey stuff.


  • #63
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    A number of years back I emptied my pockets into the security tray entering Dublin Airport dept lounge. Just as I it went through the scanner I noticed an 1/8th of blow wrapped in foil that I forgot I had. My heart stopped for a few seconds, security didnt even notice it. :p


  • #64
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    is it a myth that pigeons can be used for smuggling?in many a ww2 film notes are sent by strapping it to the birdies leg?if this was the case a note being replaced by a small light pack of whatever in the country of origin and the pigeon effectively smuggled to the destination country? ps.this is something id never ever attempt as,from the age of about 7 or 8 years onward I've had a deathly fear of birds.mostly thanks to a one A.hitchcock.


  • #65
    Wattle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    I've brought back a gram or two of weed now and then but I certainly wouldn't try it outside of Europe.


  • #66
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Danbo! wrote: »
    Used to watch the show until they has some Aussie guy on it whose story was very very very far fetched. Basically, his mate set him up, got caught, went to prison. Mate came forward but the police wanted to save face. Guy pretends he's mental, goes to psychiatric hospital, attempts to escape, almost makes it, gets caught. They realise he wasn't mental and send him back to prison. Escapes a couple of times. One of the times he pretends he's a woman, successfully escapes and is about to leave the country. Walking by a beach a guy selling souvenirs comes up to him. Just so happens the seller is also a prison guard part time and recognises him. Your man runs off and dodges machine gun fire. Gets caught. Back to prison, gets in a row and is stabbed. Dies. Goes to hospital. Brought to morgue. They're preparing the body for the funeral. He wakes up. Back to prison. And then released.

    I haven't been able to watch it since.

    Wasn't he the guy whose friend was going to break him out, but the friend got murdered so couldn't make it?:confused:



    :pac:


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  • #67
    Wattle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Wasn't he the guy whose friend was going to break him out, but the friend got murdered so couldn't make it?:confused:



    :pac:

    Your mixing up two episodes there. The one where the friend got murdered was in 'The Real Midnight Express'. The other one was in Bali where this Aussie guys mate tried to bust him out of a mental asylum.


  • #68
    hadepsx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭hadepsx


    banged up abroad,
    next time use a rubber!!!;)


  • #69
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    Tow wrote: »
    They abolished the death penalty in 2006.
    If you get caught in Mactan airport you will end up learning Michel Jackson moves in Cebu prison with thousands of other prisoners.
    Is that worse than a wire cage in Manila?
    That's the exercise yard. This is a luxury cell, due to the telly and the room to sit up.


  • #70
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Wattle wrote: »
    Your mixing up two episodes there. The one where the friend got murdered was in 'The Real Midnight Express'. The other one was in Bali where this Aussie guys mate tried to bust him out of a mental asylum.

    Just goes to show they're all the feckin same.

    When you've watched one you've watched em all.:pac:


  • #71
    Paully D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,710 ✭✭✭✭Paully D


    Just watched an interesting one there.

    A fella meets a woman from the Philippines on the internet, ends up going over to meet her, gets her pregnant, both get charged for adultery and her ex-husband is a crazed loon who tries to gun them down!

    Here's the full episode if anyone's interested:



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  • #72
    charlemont
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,725 ✭✭✭charlemont


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    A number of years back I emptied my pockets into the security tray entering Dublin Airport dept lounge. Just as I it went through the scanner I noticed an 1/8th of blow wrapped in foil that I forgot I had. My heart stopped for a few seconds, security didnt even notice it. :p

    Was moving back to Ireland over ten years ago in which I handed myself in to the cops at Store Street as I had skipped court, and on my travels I had two 25 Guilders bags of weed on me, White Widow and sticky stuff, Also had a 1 gram pony pack of coke inside a CD case so as I walked through customs in Holyhead I was pulled over and searched and the very last pocket he patted on my combats was where the weed was as I had taken it out of the ruck sack to skin up earlier at the motorway services, Some dose I was taken into a room and searched but the funny part was when he found more weed in a tracksuit pocket but it was small I had clearly not known it was there, They checked to make sure I had no convictions in Britain and then gave me a caution....They never found the coke though but it came in handy in Mountjoy ...


  • #73
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    omega666 wrote: »
    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.

    People smuggling drugs don't have a camera crew. Are you basing this on the reconstruction?


  • #74
    Guill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭Guill


    Kaiden Helpless Transient wrote: »
    1) They never get paid 100k, maybe if it was your own stuff you bought and you were going to dedicate your life selling 100 quid deals if you got it home then you might make 100k.
    2) A lot of them are set up to occupy customs/police while someone else gets through elsewhere.
    3) If you are thick enough to chance it through a commercial airport you deserve to be banged up.

    Although a woman in London was caught with 18KGs of grass....guess what she got for it. 9months!!! 9months! If I got 18kgs of grass through once, id glady do the 9 months standing on my head next time!


    But she didn't get through.


  • #75
    Guill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭Guill


    Kaiden Helpless Transient wrote: »
    I'm saying if I got a few through previous.

    Then you would be on my speed dial.


  • #76
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Paully D wrote: »
    Mufasa, is........is......that you?

    I am the Big Mufasaaaa.

    I have missed you, little one.

    My loins ache for you!!!


  • #77
    Johnny Foreigner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    Immaculate Pasta wrote: »
    :eek:

    Wow. I can see the temptation. Delivering by a yacht is the way to go. The sea is so open out there and you are incredibly unlucky to get stopped and searched. There's agreement between Britain and Ireland about not stopping anyone by boat. You can get from Antrim to Scotland by boat in just a few hours and I'm sure a lot of people who were involved in the Troubles took advantage of this.

    I know people who have sailed yachts back from France, Croatia and Portugal who haven't been stopped. It's a huge potential money earner.

    Nonsense.
    Naval Service
    Main article: Irish Naval Service
    Irish Naval Service vessel LÉ Eithne
    The Naval Service maintains a complement of about 1,144 personnel, and is tasked with policing Irish territorial waters as well as the Irish Conservation Box a large area of sea in which fishing is restricted in order to preserve numbers. The Naval Service is tasked with enforcing this EU protected area and thus serves the EU as well as Ireland.[13] The Naval Service, together with the Air Corps and Customs, have intercepted a number of vessels carrying narcotics to and from Ireland.[14]
    The Navy has eight offshore patrol vessels which are operated in support of the service's main roles, inflatable sea going craft, and training vessels. The Naval Service maintains highly trained armed boarding parties that can seize a vessel if necessary, and a special unit of frogmen called the Naval Service Diving Section. While the Naval Service does not have any heavy warships, all of the naval vessels have enough firepower to enforce their policing roles.
    The primary role is defined as "National Security", with secondary roles which include:
    Fishery Protection
    Aid to the Civil Power
    Drug Interdiction
    Maritime Safety
    Diving Operations
    Pollution Control
    Overseas Mission Support


  • #78
    EI2011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭EI2011


    new episode on tonight 9pm nat geo should be good


  • #79
    df1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    A number of years back I emptied my pockets into the security tray entering Dublin Airport dept lounge. Just as I it went through the scanner I noticed an 1/8th of blow wrapped in foil that I forgot I had. My heart stopped for a few seconds, security didnt even notice it. :p

    something very similar happened to me coming home from a festibal in liverpool airport last year - emptying my pockets....nearly shat my pants, was able to get rid of it just before going through.


  • #80
    crazygeryy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭crazygeryy


    read sandra gregorys forget you had a daughter.
    put me off doing it anyway thats for sure.


  • #81
    Daveysil15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,301 ✭✭✭Daveysil15


    I read the book about the 2 young British lads who got banged up in Venezuela for drug smuggling. Probably the best book I ever read. What they went through was just incredible. A prison where inmates have guns, knifes and even grenades is insane. It certainly turned me off going anywhere near drugs.


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  • #82
    Wattle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    Saw a Sky News report yesterday where a British woman was caught bringing a million worth of cocaine into Bali which is insane as Indonesia has some of the toughest sentences in the world for smuggling. No doubt in a few years time she'll end up with her own episode of Banged Up Abroad.


  • #83
    Neewbie_noob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Neewbie_noob


    mackg wrote: »
    No, risking spending your whole life in some pit of a jail in Thailand is not worth it. I assume people that do it are heavily in debt already and have no real choice in the matter. Either that or they have no sense what so ever.
    mackg wrote: »
    No, risking Being executed in some pit of a jail in Thailand is not worth it. I assume people that do it are heavily in debt already and have no real choice in the matter. Either that or they have no sense what so ever.

    FYP


  • #84
    smcelhinney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭smcelhinney


    Kudos to you for fixing a 10 month old post.


  • #85
    bobin fudge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 656 ✭✭✭bobin fudge


    Apologies have not read all this thread. Anyone see the guy who was in "dude where's my car" the other week on it

    what a **** talker - in his story he got battered to an inch of his life managed to batter about 10 pakistanis at one time, threw one over a balcony, battered the roughest prison warden and was about to be murdered when a senior guard stopped and saved him. he was cheered and a hero when he left :rolleyes:

    sounded like a complete ass hole looking for a film to be made


  • #86
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Kidnapped Abroad is good too.


  • #87
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    Kidnapped Abroad is good too.
    Ahh, not so great if you are in the pre-production version.


  • #88
    bajer100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭bajer100


    I got my girlfriend to smuggle my coke through customs by sticking it up her arse.

    I didn't know I could get another can in the departures lounge!


  • #89
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    smcelhinney wrote: »
    Kudos to you for fixing a 10 month old post.

    They should be Banged up on Boards for that.:pac:


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=335


  • #90
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    They should be Banged up on Boards for that.:pac:


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=335
    I didn't even know there was a prison forum! :pac:


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  • #91
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Pottler wrote: »
    Ahh, not so great if you are in the pre-production version.
    It's a lot harder to watch. At least the people on Banged Up Abroad brought it on themselves.


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