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A Chilean man with a broken leg was arrested at Barcelona airport after his “cast” was found to be made of cocaine not plaster.
The 66-year-old carried six cans of beer and two hollowed-out stools that also contained cocaine, they add.
The police statement said officers were investigating whether the injuries were inflicted intentionally “to facilitate trafficking through security checks”. Police suspect the leg was deliberately broken to aid the smuggling
It was discovered after police sprayed the cast with a chemical that turns bright blue when it comes into contact with cocaine, police spokesman Jose Antonio Nin told the Associated Press.
Har! Gotcha.
You know you’re busted when the drug dog starts humping your leg.
Can cocaine be absorbed through the leg? Perhaps once the leg begins to sweat? New CocaDerm CQ cocaine transdermal system!
This is why drugs should be legalized… that way you don’t have to break your leg and carry ‘hollowed out stool’ with you on planes to sneak the stuff in. =D
#2 Pysch! I was thinking exactly the same thing.
You got in first so I owe you a beer.
Ingenious. Well, up until he got caught.
Don’t make the cast entirely of cocaine, cover the outside and inside with plastic then cover with plaster.
Better still, don’t carry cocaine across the border. They have dogs, and spray chemicals, and smart people checking you out.
OK, so when you cut the cast off with one of those medical rotary saws, do you want to breath in the dust?
Wow! That leg’s gonna be numb for quite some time!
So why go through the hassle of breaking your leg and encasing it in a cocaine cast if you’re still going to smuggle additional, easily found, cocaine right in your damn luggage? What’s the point?
Six hollowed out “stools”?
Might’ve been a good idea for the cast, but filling up beer cans and hollow stools too? Sheesh. Not very smart criminals if they try to ship that much over with just one person
The Government does not like the competition.
#11, billy
They don’t like cocaine smugglers either.
Didnt Cheech and Chong to something similar with ‘fibroweed’ in ‘Up In Smoke’?
Ok so throw him in jail, but at least give him some kind of diploma for the idea first.
Busted! I bet he doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
It’s kind-of cool but seems destined to fail — especially from dog sniffing.
Why did his leg really need to be broken? Couldn’t they just put a cast on a perfectly fine leg?
Hey talk to the doctor. How are you supposed to know what they make those things out of. Oh and somebody asks you to deliver a six pack and a set of stools and your going there anyway? How are you supposed to know? See, perfectly innocent!