Wednesday, 16 November 2011
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When Food & Drugs Collide...
I was reading Grub Street New York and came across an interesting article. I needed to get the full story on this, so it led me to a local blog for news occurring in Palm Beach, Florida called Broward Palm Beach.
The article is about people getting busted smuggling drugs by hiding them in various foods. We're talking serious amounts of drugs here. In one case, a 44-year-old man tried to smuggle three thousand pounds of marijuana (worth $1.5 million) in a shipment of watermelons...
A 17-year-old British girl hid 30 pounds of cocaine in cake-mix boxes throughout her suitcase at the Miami Airport. Again in Miami, airport officials opened unripened plantains revealing 750 pounds of cocaine (worth $6.1 million street value). The plantains were made out of fiberglass, filled with cocaine and were hidden throughout the shipment.
A 27-year-old man from Portland, Oregon hid 4.2 pounds of heroin in macaroni boxes and other food related items in his apartment. And finally, twenty people from the Netherlands tried to smuggle 110 pounds of cocaine in containers used for in-flight meals. Eleven of the twenty people worked for an airline catering company.
I found this article quite amusing. I think it's interesting to see all the ways people try to smuggle drugs...but I've never heard of hiding it in various foods.
What do you think of this article?
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Comments (12)
I say too bad they got busted.
They tried to make them to go to rehab but they said : nom nom nom...
Thought this would be an article about weed brownies
well that's unfortunate .
I personally know someone who put a million dollars worth of extacy in her tires (or something to do with tires) and went over the border.. She got caught, and was only in jail for 3 years. (I figured it'd be more, especially being in American jails, We are from Canada).. I dont see why people even try doing that. Ok, I smoke weed, but I would NEVER smuggle into other countries or anywhere. I would never sell or anything to get me into big trouble
people are stupid. watch any of those customs/border control shows, and you'll see the extremes people will go through to smuggle drugs. people will swallow them, hide them under wigs, hide them in their laptops or behind laptop screens, put drugs in the metal frames of their suitcases and hide it in their shoes. it's ridiculous.
@Whatsthat@momaroo - Haha..sorry to disappoint.
@bbanmen420@xanga - Yeah I don't know..I guess not everyone is like that!
@written_conversations@xanga - I love shows like that :) I'm addicted to LockUp!
ha! I always had the idea of smuggling drugs in my food. I have noting to do with such criminal stuff...I just mean it seems so obvious.
Charlie Sheen would love to have some weed on his pizza.
@reckless_eagle@xanga - They should make a foodie remake of Winehouse's song 'Rehab'.
LOL they could try hiding those drugs in durians!
@RedHotFairy@xanga - Right. Those idiots!