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Finally: Cocaine breast implants
The Interior Ministry said Wednesday that border police noticed fresh scars and blood-stained gauze on her chest as well as pale patches beneath her skin.
The woman said she had recently had breast implant surgery. The statement said police were suspicious and sent her to a local hospital where the implants were removed and found to contain cocaine.
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Is this another one of those ‘If Women Were in Charge’ threads???
BigWyo on December 12, 2012 at 9:47 PM
No, this is a “If the Charge was in the Woman” thread.
eyesky on December 12, 2012 at 9:59 PM
The LEGALIZE IT crowd is gonna get here any second now.
tommy71 on December 12, 2012 at 10:11 PM
So, which bit does one chop to sniff it?
OldEnglish on December 12, 2012 at 10:11 PM
The perfect mix of Snort & Suck.
Bitter Clinger on December 12, 2012 at 10:30 PM
YouTube has a series from National Geographic where they dramatize drug mule arrests at various airports across the world called “Locked Up Abroad” that is totally addicting. These people are just that: mules who drug thugs get to visit exotic countries and the elaborate and not so elaborate things they are put through: one poor Dallas teen girl got trapped into trying to bring back cocaine strapped to her body from Bangladesh under a raincoat which of course got the security at the airport in 110 degree Bangladesh to stop and inquire “Why are you wearing a raincoat?” And those machines that detect even traces: this woman HAD to have kept strongly registering cocaine – to operate and remove them?!
Marcus on December 12, 2012 at 10:31 PM
Awaiting for some snot-nosed pothead to call reputable posters ‘statist’, etc. Which IRL would result in them picking their teeth up off the floor.
MelonCollie on December 12, 2012 at 10:31 PM
Wait until the muslem women with explosive implants start getting on airliners.
That’s when the real fun begins, because you KNOW they’d never DARE take them off the airplane, forget about removing the implants.
Rebar on December 12, 2012 at 11:05 PM
This type of smuggling only exists because it is illegal and results in massive profits for the smugglers.
Bootlegging ended when Prohibition ended.
Seven Seas on December 12, 2012 at 11:25 PM
Really?
So cigarettes – which were never illegal – are not bootlegged?
Rebar on December 12, 2012 at 11:43 PM
Breaking new directive: All woman flyers and some men must go top less to prove they are are not hiding cocaine or a bomb under their chest tissue.
If they could they would make a humans marsupial with a hidden pouch. One that can carry anything and not need surgery to get it out but the risk of infection and time needed to heal is not worth it when they have a catapult or some “mule” to just walk it across.
tjexcite on December 12, 2012 at 11:43 PM
2009: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Episode 11.06 : Spooked
Shy Guy on December 13, 2012 at 2:12 AM
They certainly are. But they are also taxed at greater rates than the average product in the marketplace. When taxes reach a certain level, it’s similar to when the government sets a price floor (increasing the price above what the product is actually worth), which, via supply and demand, creates a black market with enough supply to meet the demand at lower price points.
In the United States, 56% of the cost of cigarettes is in taxes, which is probably more than the average for other products. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_taxes_in_the_United_States#Proportion_of_taxes_in_cigarette_prices)
It could be argued there is a black market for every product, with size proportional to the amount the government increases the price via taxes or regulatory cost.
The reason other products are not commonly associated with expansive black markets is because the taxes and regulatory burden do not make up 56% of the cost. If taxes for, say, food were that high, people would buy bread in shady alleyways more often.
Nephew Sam on December 13, 2012 at 7:31 AM
I seem to remember an episode of Nip/Tuck with a similar premise.
JimLennon on December 13, 2012 at 7:40 AM