Please return our pot.

[Boblobla]

Customs slip cannabis into passenger's bag

from CNN.com

"A passenger who landed at Tokyo's Narita airport over the weekend has ended up with a surprise souvenir courtesy of customs officials -- a package of cannabis.

A customs official hid the package in a suitcase belonging to a passenger arriving from Hong Kong as part of an exercise for sniffer dogs on Sunday, Reuters.com reported. However, staff then lost track of the drugs and suitcase during the exercise, a spokeswoman for Tokyo customs said. Customs regulations specify that a training suitcase be used for such exercises, but the official had used passengers' suitcases for similar purposes in the past, domestic media reported.

Tokyo customs has asked anyone who finds the package to return it."

GG Customs. GG.

[ken0042]

The guy may not see the request to return the pot as he sits in a Sri-Lankan jail cell wondering why he was framed for drug possesion; and where along his connecting flights it may have happened.

[Gozer]

They couldn't have used a dummy briefcase, they had to potentially ruin someone's life?

[MelBridgeman]

Wow, this is a joke to be honest....
This practice can now be sited on any drug bust case at this airport and others around the world,nice work customs...

[Dion]

Originally Posted by ken0042

The guy may not see the request to return the pot as he sits in a Sri-Lankan jail cell wondering why he was framed for drug possesion; and where along his connecting flights it may have happened.

Chances are who ever found the package would have disposed of it pronto.

[Boblobla]

Originally Posted by Dion

Chances are who ever found the package would have disposed of it pronto.

I would have 'disposed' of it for sure...

[HalifaxDrunk]

I opened this thread thinking the notorious Extension Cords Thief had moved on to cookware....

[4X4]

Originally Posted by HalifaxDrunk

I opened this thread thinking the notorious Extension Cords Thief had moved on to cookware....

Good one.

That is insane that they actually do that. I'd be pretty ticked off if I opened my suitcase and the thing reeked of weed. I mean, I don't mind the smell so much, but it would seriously piss me off that they were fooling around with my gear when they could easily spring for a dummy suitcase for this purpose.

And can you imagine if the person did indeed get caught somewhere else with the weed? Wasn't there a story about an aussie chick that's in jail in Indonesia or something for drugs that she claims were not hers? Hearing stuff like this kinda makes you think.

[Dion]

Wildwood Weed

(Jim Stafford)

The wildwood flower grew wild on the farm,
And we never knowed what it was called.
Some said it was a flower and some said it was weed,
I never gave it much thought ......
One day I was out there talking to my brother,
Reached down for a weed to chew on,
Things got fuzzy and things got blurry,
And then everything was gone!
Didn't know what happened,
But I knew it beat the hell out of sniffin' burlap.

I come to and my brother was there,
And he said, What's wrong with your eyes?
I said, I don't know, I was chewing on a weed.
He said, Let me give it a try.
We spent the rest of that day and most of that night,
Trying to find my brother, Bill.
Caught up with him, 'bout six o'clock the next morning,
Naked, swinging on the wind mill!
He said he flew up there.
I had to fly up there and bring him down,
He was about half crazy .....

The very next day we picked a bunch of them weeds,
And put 'em in the sun to dry.
Then we mashed 'em up and chopped 'em up,
And put 'em in the corncob pipe.
Smokin' that wildwood flower got to be a habit,
We didn't see no harm.
We thought it was kind of handy,
Take a trip and never leave the farm!

All good things gotta come to an end,
And it's the same with the wildwood weed.
One day this feller from Washington came by,
And he spied and turned white as a sheet.
Then they dug and they burned,
And they burned and they dug,
And they killed all our cute little weeds.
Then they drove away,
We just smiled and waved ..........
Sittin' there on that sack of seeds!

Y'all come back now, hear?

[Locke]

Worst. Customs Cops. Evar.

[Daradon]

Yeah that was exactly what I was thinking, hopefully Tokyo was their final destination.

And going through someones luggage without suspicion or cause is a little unnerving too.

I remember my first trip back from Australia, the U.S. customs had torn through my suitcase looking for something. All my CD cases were busted. (The hinges broken from someone trying to open them quick). THere was no way the kind of damage they and other things had could have been done without opening the suitcase.

And you never even know when it happens.

[Fobby]

How much do you want to bet that some custom cop pocketed it, never put it in the suitcase, so that's why the dog couldn't pick it up.. and now it's "lost".