From the AFP, so it must be true!
(Well, maybe not - Update: High Times sourced the story to the 'Tiser.)
When this happens in Australia, do you really think the local Customs she-men would admit it? Would their bosses let them? Nah, The Japanese still have this thing called honor - and fall-guys.An unsuspecting passenger who flew to Tokyo is carrying one million yen's worth of cannabis compliments of customs authorities after a bungled exercise involving sniffer dogs.
An officer at Narita International Airport yesterday stuffed 142 grams of the drug into the side pocket of a randomly-selected black suitcase coming off an overseas flight so that the animal could detect it.
"The dog couldn't find it and the officer also forgot which bag he put it in," a customs office spokeswoman said.
"If by some chance passengers find it in their suitcase, we're asking them to return it."
The 38-year-old officer was quoted by the spokeswoman as saying: "I knew that using passengers' bags (for sniffer dog training) is prohibited, but I did it because I wanted to improve the sniffer dog's ability."
He was reprimanded by the head of customs at Narita airport.
"This case was extremely regrettable. I would like to deeply apologise," said the airport's customs chief Manpei Tanaka.
The cannabis, which has a street value of one million yen ($A10,100), was in a metal box wrapped with newspapers.
Japan strictly prohibits both hard and soft drugs, with people imprisoned for possession of even small amounts of cannabis.
4 comments:
"we're asking them to return it" ...
they wouldn't have a chance to, after the Jap Cops handcuffed them on arrival, as their sniffer dogs are way more efficient.
re Downer's comment on Corby's case.
we all knew it was the dopey brother right from the start and I said so allover the bloggery.
she is a star for taking the rap.
a star in a family that is rubbish.
To me, the really evil thing is that 3 years after we all saw the VILE Indonesian system at work, planeloads of Australians are landing in Bali to spend their money propping up a country NOT our own.
eejits.
peace and love to youse in the trees
"she is a star for taking the rap.
a star in a family that is rubbish"
Indeed.
That's a beautiful requiem for this Comedy of Hypocrites. The Star gets twenty years for pot, the Foreign Minister admits knowing it was someone else and the Corby mob lose their only genuine asset.
bloody loooong piss .. heh.
Zing*
Twenty years on the Pot?
Constabulary Constipation meets Bali Belly!
What the Nerita pooch was doing when the bag went by?
Davo, that was a very low budgie...
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