November 6th, 2007 at 12:01 am
Smugglers will try anything won’t they? The latest interesting smuggling attempt involves bugs as mules.
Fortunately the smugglers attempt wasn’t successful.
A customs officer in the Netherlands too a close look at a consignment of more than 100 larger dead beetles that had been send from Peru and discovered that cocaine had been stashed inside them.
“We see a lot of things, but this was a first for us,” customs spokesman Kees Nanninga said.
“It looked like they were cut open, the drugs hidden in their backs and then they were glued back together again,” he said.
In total the insects held about 10 ounces of cocaine said to be worth about $11,000.
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August 10th, 2007 at 12:01 am
Working in a hospital I know that people, especially kids but not exclusively kids, put things in strange places. The nose and ear are the areas where foreign objects are most often placed by children.
Strange things get in our ears and noses by no fault of our own as well. Medical literature is full of reports of insects crawling into or nesting in peoples ears. One recent case was newsworthy – In May an Albany Ore child had a spider the size of a pencil eraser in her ear. She had to go to the doctors office to have it removed.
The child, Jesse Courtney, was no worse for wear and thought the whole experience was kind of cool even bringing the then dead spider to school to show it off.
Apparently in 1993 there was a British machinist who had bad earaches. It was found that he had a pregnant spider living in his ear. He ended up keeping the spider as a pet once it was extricated from his ear.
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November 9th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
How eerie is this? A Dutch woman, who had already planned her own funeral and purchased her plot after her husbands death last year, was found dead next to the grave in Amsterdam where she wanted to be buried.
The widow, 65, probably died of a heart attack while she was visiting the family grave where her name, but no date, was already inscribed.
She had been carrying a bag with her that containing her will and had already organised details of her funeral including the music she wanted played.
I wonder if she really did just happen to die beside her own grave to be, or if she committed suicide? The report doesn’t state whether an autopsy was performed.
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