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Russian drug mule arrested at Suvarnabhumi with 57 lumps of cocaine in her stomach

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27 minutes ago, SoFarAndNear said:

Absolutely agree with you. 2 weeks ago was my first time at Nana for around 4-5 years. After everything shut down at 2 A.M (ridiculous, I still had half of my evening budget money with me) I felt like being in a different country.  Everywhere full of African hookers and drug sellers. Sorry but what a shitplace has this area become?!? Definitely my last time there.

really.  Nana area has gotten to that state eh?  On my dozen trips to the LOS I only stopped in there three times.  I wasn't really impressed but it definitely was unique.   I don't need a big noisy city so I never spent too much time in Bangkok.  Nana had gotten a bit grimier from my first visit in 2004. 

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21 minutes ago, midasthailand said:

I have been advocating the same for years! Decriminalise all of it and let people make their own choices. I would go one step further and have the government sell all of the crap at outlets and quality control the product at the same time as earning revenue.

 

By making drugs legal you would completely destroy the drug cartels, eradicate all the corrupt border police, DEA and corrupt politicians, judges and law enforcement. 

 

Crime rates would plummet and government coffers would fill up.

 

All revenue to be spent on improving Health care and education.


Indeed. Many people don't realise that the legislation against 'drugs' is relatively recent. This is an interesting read - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-influence/the-real-reason-heroin-cocaine-drugs-illegal_b_9659888.html

Watching Reefer Madness really highlights the ridiculous attitude and propaganda that has driven drugs policy in the last 80 years or so. Thankfully time has moved on, but it's a shame the legislation driven by these sorts of attitudes are still in place.
 


Of course drugs aren't 'safe', but neither are many things that are legal and that people choose to do. Base jumping, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, promiscuity for example.  As with them, I believe drug taking is one of the domains over which an individual should have jurisdiction - there is little more obvious as 'personal choice' as electing to consume a substance.

"Nanny State" is a phrase often overused, but the "war on drugs" is one scenario to which it is wholly applicable.

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The lure of easy money often negates the associated risks especially in younger people.  In the 90's I was given an inspection tour of a Thai prison that had an 18 year old American man just starting a 20 year sentence.  A member of the U.S.  Attorneys office familiar with the case briefed me in advance....A kid that had never previously been in trouble and on his first trip overseas. He planned on buying a new truck with the $10K  he was promised for smuggling heroin.  He was told and unfortunately believed ;  "virtually no risk ...and just one time." 

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5 hours ago, ezzra said:

Custom had to be tipped ahead, because with all my traveling in and out of Thailand for 30 years, I hardly ever see someone being x-rayed of body frisked,

mostly the custom guys just seat there glaring at the tilde after tilde of people

shuffling out with the occasional luggage checking ....

Thailand now has full body x-ray machines but its for going out of the country. Its fix in some lines and they require you to go through it right before you reach the immigration counter.

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"She was due to deliver the drugs to other Africans in Bangkok."

 

Definitely a give up. If it wasn't, real police would have her in custody (and out of the press) ratting out the intended recipients so they could arrest the big (bigger) players. But of course they are not interested in that. Only interested in photo ops that give the public the impression they are doing their job. Sadly life is over for this young woman so the RTP can maintain their facade. Disgraceful organization. 

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6 hours ago, soihok said:

I have been through a body X Ray several times at Swampy. Last one was when I was on transit through and not entering Thailand.

Guess I must look suspicious then.

The body scan checks for external items strapped to the body. It doesn't see what's inside your intestines. 

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1 hour ago, mike324 said:

Thailand now has full body x-ray machines but its for going out of the country. Its fix in some lines and they require you to go through it right before you reach the immigration counter.

For outgoing passengers they have body scanners.

But the girl arrived into Thailand and then there are no scanners.

Only when there is a suspicion (like in this case) the person will be escorted to a scanner.

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37 minutes ago, BKKBrit said:

The body scan checks for external items strapped to the body. It doesn't see what's inside your intestines. 

+1 which you can also decline and instead have a pat down carried out instead.

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I have been advocating the same for years! Decriminalise all of it and let people make their own choices. I would go one step further and have the government sell all of the crap at outlets and quality control the product at the same time as earning revenue.

 

By making drugs legal you would completely destroy the drug cartels, eradicate all the corrupt border police, DEA and corrupt politicians, judges and law enforcement. 

 

Crime rates would plummet and government coffers would fill up.

 

All revenue to be spent on improving Health care and education.

Hard drugs should be made only available to people already hooked. That way there would be no point the dealers producing it because as soon as someone gets hooked they get it form the government. To much risk for little profit. After 10 years of this system there probably be hardly any new Addicts. There you go I just won the war on drugs with one post.

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Hard drugs should be made available to people already hooked. That way there would be no point the dealers producing it because as soon as someone gets hooked they get it form the government. To much risk for little profit. After 10 years of this system there probably be hardly any new Addicts. Three you go I just won the war on drugs with one post.

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First, there is not such a female name in Russia - Ilia... It is strictly a male name. Her name is probably Yulia. Second, does anybody believe this:

 

"Airport police became suspicious last Wednesday and decided to X-ray the woman."   

 

Suspicious like what? There are thousands and thousands of tourists going through Suvarnabhumi every day. If the police would stop anybody they consider "suspicious" and put him/her on Xray - then the airport would stop working the same day because of the huge never ending lines of people. As in majority of the cases like this - the police had the information when Yulia was already on the board to Thailand. The information came from the columbian or brasilian police who themselves have a big network of informers. But off course , it is better for the Thai police's image to claim that they can actually see through people. Yeah!

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First, there is not such a female name in Russia - Ilia... It is strictly a male name. Her name is probably Yulia. Second, does anybody believe this:
 
"Airport police became suspicious last Wednesday and decided to X-ray the woman."   
 
Suspicious like what? There are thousands and thousands of tourists going through Suvarnabhumi every day. If the police would stop anybody they consider "suspicious" and put him/her on Xray - then the airport would stop working the same day because of the huge never ending lines of people. As in majority of the cases like this - the police had the information when Yulia was already on the board to Thailand. The information came from the columbian or brasilian police who themselves have a big network of informers. But off course , it is better for the Thai police's image to claim that they can actually see through people. Yeah!

Thousands of tourists you speak of are not carrying coke in their bowels.
We can not know what it's like to be in that situation and if we would have a panic attack.

Everybody is cool behind a key board.. Very different in real life!
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3 minutes ago, zorro1 said:


Thousands of tourists you speak of are not carrying coke in their bowels.
We can not know what it's like to be in that situation and if we would have a panic attack.

Everybody is cool behind a key board.. Very different in real life!

so you think she was running around the policemen crying "ouh my god, I have a cocaine in my bowel, ouh my god!" ?

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8 hours ago, ezzra said:

Custom had to be tipped ahead, because with all my traveling in and out of Thailand for 30 years, I hardly ever see someone being x-rayed of body frisked,

mostly the custom guys just seat there glaring at the tilde after tilde of people

shuffling out with the occasional luggage checking ....

 

Never seen them look at anyone, so I agree, Maybe---- some African dude here got caught for something and to get off he tips the police.

Feasible.

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17 minutes ago, Zikomat said:

First, there is not such a female name in Russia - Ilia... It is strictly a male name. Her name is probably Yulia. Second, does anybody believe this:

 

"Airport police became suspicious last Wednesday and decided to X-ray the woman."   

 

Suspicious like what? There are thousands and thousands of tourists going through Suvarnabhumi every day. If the police would stop anybody they consider "suspicious" and put him/her on Xray - then the airport would stop working the same day because of the huge never ending lines of people. As in majority of the cases like this - the police had the information when Yulia was already on the board to Thailand. The information came from the columbian or brasilian police who themselves have a big network of informers. But off course , it is better for the Thai police's image to claim that they can actually see through people. Yeah!

 

The way I read it is she was x-rayed in the hospital. That is standard procedure and requires a team of specialists with registered, calibrated equipment.

 

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8 hours ago, ezzra said:

Custom had to be tipped ahead, because with all my traveling in and out of Thailand for 30 years, I hardly ever see someone being x-rayed of body frisked,

mostly the custom guys just seat there glaring at the tilde after tilde of people

shuffling out with the occasional luggage checking ....

I travelled with a dildo in my carryon before, I wasn't sure how it would show up on xray, but sure enough on all 3 airports along my journey the staff behind the xrays called their workmates over to point and laugh at the contents of my bag. 

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