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Cannabis blunder at Tokyo airport
News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon May 26, 2008 7:11 AM EDT
Article Source: BBC Newsadvertisement
An unwitting passenger arriving at Japan's Narita airport has received 142g of cannabis after a customs test went awry, officials say.
A customs officer hid a package of the banned narcotic in a side pocket of a randomly chosen suitcase in order to test airport security.
Sniffer dogs failed to detect the cannabis and the officer could not remember which bag he had put it in.
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 | Cannabis blunder at Tokyo airport | BBC News | Mon May 26 | 8 |
| Airport bungle gives passenger $10,000 in drugs | The Sydney Morning Herald | Mon May 26 | 1 |
| Weed, compliments of the cops | IOL | Mon May 26 | 5 |
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{"commentId":1841163,"authorDomain":"paperdragon"}
Hah! that's great.
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- 3 votes
#1 - Mon May 26, 2008 7:55 AM EDT{"commentId":1841239,"authorDomain":"cobbs"}
That official should lose his job.
You just can't put a random citizen at risk of a prison term because you want to "improve" the test for the drug dogs. Now there is someone walking around with a suitcase that will smell of pot even after it is taken out. What happens when they come back to the airport to fly home or away on business?
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- 6 votes
#2 - Mon May 26, 2008 9:18 AM EDT{"commentId":1841465,"authorDomain":"cartooncat"}
Well... if that particular dog is on duty, he'll walk straight through again....
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":1846551,"authorDomain":"cobbs"}
Until they get to their destination and the dog there is a bit more on track.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":1841342,"authorDomain":"jumpstone"}
"Hello, Bob?"
"Yeah"
"It worked, turn in the 142 and keep the pound. See you at the party."
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- 6 votes
#3 - Mon May 26, 2008 10:04 AM EDT{"commentId":1841526,"authorDomain":"penguins"}
Lucky passenger.
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- 3 votes
#4 - Mon May 26, 2008 11:21 AM EDT{"commentId":1841541,"authorDomain":"walketim"}
LOL! As a routine traveler, I routinely deface my luggage with marker to make it stand out. What should I write on the side to memorialize this event?
Voluntary Contraband Test Suitcase
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- 5 votes
#5 - Mon May 26, 2008 11:31 AM EDT{"commentId":1841824,"authorDomain":"barry-rutherford"}
Midnight Express revisited....
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- 2 votes
#6 - Mon May 26, 2008 1:52 PM EDT{"commentId":1842137,"authorDomain":"harshpaul"}
Nothing can escape the long arm of the law... ohh.. wait
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- 3 votes
#7 - Mon May 26, 2008 4:24 PM EDT{"commentId":1842262,"authorDomain":"mark12914"}
That one bag is going to spawn into 1000, as everyone arrested for carrying weed during the next 2 weeks is going to claim to be "that guy".
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- 4 votes
#8 - Mon May 26, 2008 5:24 PM EDT{"commentId":1842796,"authorDomain":"walketim"}
Good point. When law enforcement admits to planting dope on people that's like the Golden Ticket.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":1843495,"authorDomain":"cartooncat"}
Just remember only to ship in quantities of 142 grammes from now on folks!
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":1842400,"authorDomain":"ditto"}
Someone tell that guy to give me a call. There's free pizza in it for him.
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- 4 votes
#9 - Mon May 26, 2008 6:37 PM EDT{"commentId":1844736,"authorDomain":"pmags"}
Paging the passenger with a bag of weed in his suitcase...Please report to Airport Security.
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- 2 votes
#10 - Tue May 27, 2008 1:35 PM EDT{"commentId":1846493,"authorDomain":"walketim"}
"Excuse me sir, can you please show me your papers..."
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- 2 votes
#11 - Tue May 27, 2008 10:48 PM EDT{"commentId":2261951,"authorDomain":"ptlawrie"}
he's probably getting strip searched and abused as we speak
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- 1 vote
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