Woman smuggles cocaine in breasts.

obeygiant · Dec 12, 2012, 11:39 AM

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Spanish police arrested a Panamanian woman on Wednesday who landed in Barcelona from Bogota, Colombia with cocaine stuffed inside her breast implants.

The woman was taken to the police at Barcelona's El Prat airport after her vague answers to questions about the reasons for her trip from Bogota raised suspicion at the border control, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Spanish authorities carry out rigorous checks of passengers arriving on so-called "hot flights" from Latin America, to fight drug smuggling.

When border police discovered fresh scars and blood-stained gauze on the woman's chest she was taken to a nearby hospital to check her claim that she had recently undergone breast implant surgery.

The implants were found to carry 1.38 kg of cocaine.

reuters

Not exactly smuggling raisins...

rhett7660 · Dec 12, 2012, 11:44 AM

Ouch. At least they didn't burst!

filmbuff · Dec 12, 2012, 11:54 AM

Ow! How could that possibly be worth it?

RITZFit · Dec 12, 2012, 11:58 AM

Hang on... I saw this on a TV drama once.

Scepticalscribe · Dec 12, 2012, 05:23 PM

Yes, I have read that in the Guardian this evening. And yes. Ouch.

Maybe the thread title could be amended to read "woman smuggles cocaine in breast implants"? Mind you, either way it is something rather........unpleasant to mull over.

juanm · Dec 13, 2012, 03:27 AM

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Originally Posted by rhett7660

Ouch. At least they didn't burst!

Actually one of them leaked, and she was taken to a hospital.

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Originally Posted by filmbuff

Ow! How could that possibly be worth it?

Assuming it's pure, and that one 25% pure gram of cocaine can be sold for 50€, you do the math. Besides, drug smugglers are not known for their respect for human life, so as far as we know, that woman could have been coerced into doing that.

iJohnHenry · Dec 13, 2012, 07:11 AM

They could get more in an "third-trimester" womb-implant.

Or even a tushy-implant(2).

rhett7660 · Dec 13, 2012, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by juanm

Actually one of them leaked, and she was taken to a hospital.

Assuming it's pure, and that one 25% pure gram of cocaine can be sold for 50€, you do the math. Besides, drug smugglers are not known for their respect for human life, so as far as we know, that woman could have been coerced into doing that.

Oh! She is lucky then. Nothing like having a lethal dose of cocaine wrapped up in a balloon in your body and having it leaking. Doh!

jessica. · Dec 13, 2012, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by RITZFit

Hang on... I saw this on a TV drama once.

So did I!
This is a stupid stupid move though. She is lucky she isn't dead.

Wardenski · Dec 13, 2012, 09:12 AM

DDisgusting.

ChrisMan287 · Dec 13, 2012, 11:02 AM

That's insane.

iJohnHenry · Dec 13, 2012, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by jessica.

This is a stupid stupid move though. She is lucky she isn't dead.

Nah, this is as safe as Mother's milk.

mscriv · Dec 13, 2012, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Wardenski

DDisgusting.

Well played my friend...

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Originally Posted by Scepticalscribe

Mind you, either way it is something rather........unpleasant to mule over.

I fixed that for you...

Scepticalscribe · Dec 13, 2012, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by juanm

Actually one of them leaked, and she was taken to a hospital.

Assuming it's pure, and that one 25% pure gram of cocaine can be sold for 50€, you do the math. Besides, drug smugglers are not known for their respect for human life, so as far as we know, that woman could have been coerced into doing that.

I hadn't realised that one of them leaked - how awful - until you mentioned it. And, of course, there could well have been the element of coercion - something that sources I read failed to mention as a possibility.

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Originally Posted by iJohnHenry

They could get more in an "third-trimester" womb-implant.

Or even a tushy-implant(2).

Nicely phrased.

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Originally Posted by rhett7660

Oh! She is lucky then. Nothing like having a lethal dose of cocaine wrapped up in a balloon in your body and having it leaking. Doh!

Awful. Just awful.

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Originally Posted by Wardenski

DDisgusting.

Okay, full marks. Very good.

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Originally Posted by iJohnHenry

Nah, this is as safe as Mother's milk.

Touché.

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Originally Posted by mscriv

Well played my friend...

I fixed that for you...

Thank you. And fair comment.....

fiddlestyx · Jan 17, 2013, 10:31 AM

Apparently the smugglers were watching too much TV ...

Fireproof! · Jan 17, 2013, 10:39 AM

Wow - that is just insane.

bjm2660 · 11:14 AM

Reminds me of a classic interview between Ali G and former US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Highlights below:

"But why can't we use technology and let's say take out some of the..boring organs and stick in like a CD player and like wicked speakers…you're like booming out…it's like walking sound system...Well what about sticking a mobile phone in there, surely there's room in there for that."

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/4ab...m-aligshow_fan

JohnLT13 · Jan 17, 2013, 12:55 PM

Im surprised this hasn't happen more often. Id rather implants filled with drugs then other regions.

Gaelic2 · Jan 17, 2013, 02:50 PM

I once knew a girl with dynamite breasts but that was way before cocaine. She was hot!!

Caliber26 · Jan 17, 2013, 03:41 PM

I can actually live with the fact that there are people stupid enough to do this. I know sometimes it's out of desperation and all they want is a chance of a better life that they'll otherwise never attain where they come from. I totally get it. What I think is horrific is when animals are used for this type of thing. They're defenseless creatures who have no say so and that really pisses me off. I hear the sad stories all the time, of how these drug traffickers cut open dogs and stuff them with heroin and cocaine. Those people deserve to be thrown into a prison cell and let them rot for life.

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bjm2660 macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Virginia	Didn't Ali G prefigure this? Reminds me of a classic interview between Ali G and former US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Highlights below: "But why can't we use technology and let's say take out some of the..boring organs and stick in like a CD player and like wicked speakers…you're like booming out…it's like walking sound system...Well what about sticking a mobile phone in there, surely there's room in there for that." http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/4ab...m-aligshow_fan Last edited by bjm2660; Jan 17, 2013 at 11:14 AM. Reason: fix link
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