In the year 2003, a Bryn Mawr College student, Janet Lee, attempted to board an airliner with several flour-filled condoms. She claimed that her classmates and she used the soft and squishy condoms as stress relievers. They would give them a squeeze to ease their tension.
She must not have ever listened to the news or read a paper if she didn’t know that drug smugglers tend to fill condoms with cocaine and heroin and use mules who swallow the condoms in order to get the illegal drugs into the Country.
She was astonished when she was arrested at the Philadelphia airport and then jailed for three weeks until the lab could verify that the substance was indeed flour as she had claimed it was.
Unfortunately for the city of Philadelphia she smartened up and strapped them with a lawsuit for wrongful detention and was awarded $180,000 in January, 2007.
You can bet she’ll never make that mistake again!
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In November, Britain’s Home Office announced that it agreed to a settlement to a lawsuit that had been created by 197 Heroin-addicted prisoners that it was “assault” and violation of European Convention on Human Rights for them to have been denied drugs almost immediately after they were arrested. The government has agreed to pay each of the prisoners the equivalent of about $7000.
More than a kilogram of heroin stuffed inside 46 golf balls destined for Taiwan where seized by Police in military-ruled Myanmar on Wednesday.
The Pyi Myanmar weekly said workers at a courier office in Yangon became suspicious when a young woman dropped off a parcel for delivery to Taipei, but left before filling out the necessary paperwork.
Upon arrival, police discovered the balls were fake and each contained a small bag of around 25 grams (0.9 ounces) of heroin.
Myanmar is the world’s number two producer of opium, the raw material for heroin, behind Afghanistan. Most of its poppy fields are in the lawless mountainous region of the eastern Shan state, near the borders with Laos and Thailand — the so-called Golden Triangle.
