Customs hiding drugs in our luggage?

[Shaneburger]

from http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2008-05-26T075925Z_01_T167925_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-JAPAN-CANNABIS.XML


..."A customs official hid the package in a suitcase belonging to a passenger arriving from Hong Kong as a training exercise for sniffer dogs on Sunday, but lost track of both drugs..."

Just be careful going to Japan :D

[USJ27Resident]

from http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2008-05-26T075925Z_01_T167925_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-JAPAN-CANNABIS.XML


..."A customs official hid the package in a suitcase belonging to a passenger arriving from Hong Kong as a training exercise for sniffer dogs on Sunday, but lost track of both drugs..."

Just be careful going to Japan :D

What the ........ was the Customs officer thinking :eek: :mad:

What if the passenger was enroute [transit] and ended up in a country where you get hanged !!! :mad:

[kwchang]

Just a reminder - in case you hadn't read the article linked above - this was an error committed by the Japanese Customs officer in Tokyo airport. Just to point out that an apparently super efficient country is making such a silly mistake

[Jey]

A silly mistake can be pardoned, but a mistake made that can cost the innocent passenger his life for something that comes under "testing".... phew!!! man oh man..... like what usj27resident points out, he / she could get hanged for nothing. :eek: :eek: :eek:

[pcyeoh]

It is similar to a case where a businessman who has a licence to won a gun smuggled his gun onboard. He was detected and his excuse, " I am trying to test the security authority how efficient they are." Too bad. He was convicted. The judge told him - "Let the authority do their job themselves."

So I wonder whether the cops in the Altantuya murder case will plead, "We were merely testing whether the C4 explosive works on human being."

[chewie]

i also had heard of this previously that someone might put something into our luggages. So i bought a luggage that without any compartments. even my carry luggage is without any compartment outside. and when i travel, i will wrap both up with plastic thus there is no chance at all ppl will slip something into it...

this is very dangerous matter and what did Japan custom did, backfires on them...now the drug is out there...and what if the owner did not notice it and did travel again...from there he will be convicted for trying to bring out drugs... haiahzzz..

And i was thinking, whether will this happen here in our own country...

[rachel sj]

Totally speechless.....I tot this sort of drama could only happen in developing countries (like Malaysia - sounds ugly but true) ..cannot imagine we can find "sotongs" in Japan too...

[Jey]

"blur sotongs" are demographically distributed everywhere, not peculiar to Bolehland only. :D

By the way, r u racheljanz by any chance? :confused:

[rachel sj]

"blur sotongs" are demographically distributed everywhere, not peculiar to Bolehland only. :D

By the way, r u racheljanz by any chance? :confused:

no la...i am rachel staying in Subang Jaya :rolleyes:

[Jey]

You seem to have debuted here right about the same time another forumer by a similar name went missing suddenly, so much so that it inspired some forummers to open a topic just to discuss her absence. So i thought it might be you coming in a more glamorous nick. Sorry for the confusion. :rolleyes:

[USJ27Resident]

Kinda ironic for this kinda news to break... especially when we have a Malaysian girl getting jailed in Japan for carrying drugs [and appeals denied by the Japanese Supreme Courts] .... :(

[rachel sj]

You seem to have debuted here right about the same time another forumer by a similar name went missing suddenly, so much so that it inspired some forummers to open a topic just to discuss her absence. So i thought it might be you coming in a more glamorous nick. Sorry for the confusion. :rolleyes:

no worries :) glad that u think mine is a more glamorous nick....

[Jey]

Nice to meet you rachel :)
I think you must be a glamorous person too ;)