Customs slip cannabis into passenger's bag

[ingac70]

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/26/tokyo.cannabis/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

(CNN) -- A passenger who landed at Tokyo's Narita airport over the weekend has ended up with a surprise souvenir courtesy of customs officials -- a package of cannabis.

A customs official hid the package in a suitcase belonging to a passenger arriving from Hong Kong as part of an exercise for sniffer dogs on Sunday, Reuters.com reported.

However, staff then lost track of the drugs and suitcase during the exercise, a spokeswoman for Tokyo customs said.

[Bolo Boffin]

1. Holy...

OK, let's say that this little slip-up wasn't welcomed by the person who got the pot.

What happens the next time this person goes through security and a dog gets a hit off the residual odor?

What an unbelievable invasion of privacy! If they want to test the dogs, they need to just add a mock suitcase to the luggage. It doesn't have to be an actual passenger bag, for the love of...

AUGH! People are so stupid sometimes!

[ingac70]

4. It would be my luck...

that I would be pulled over by the cops on my way home from the airport and searched.... what a nasty surprise that weed would be!

[Bolo Boffin]

6. Yeah, you and me both.

The article says they're supposed to use a training suitcase, and that was my point.

Even so, how many innocent people's suitcases have been used, and they then got stopped and searched later because of the dogs getting a hit? Incredible.

[Earth_First]

2. I'd.Be.Pissed. n/t

[Cooley Hurd]

7. I'd.Be.Thankful!

Free pot????:woohoo:

[lonestarnot]

13. I'd be freaked out!

Yikes!

[maxsolomon]

3. if i found that in my bag once i'd made the hotel

i'd be so fucking paranoid.

but then i might be happy. :smoke:

[populistdriven]

11. and paranoid!

:D

[peacetalksforall]

5. What an extremely risky invasion of privacy. Despicable.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. What if he catches his next flight and gets busted for possession someplace else?

It sounds like a possibility. :shrug:

[ingac70]

9. And...

if that passenger is flying off to somewhere like Singapore, he/she would end up with the death penalty if caught.

That's really nothing to screw around with.

[seabeyond]

10. this will now be the argument to any drug found in someones luggage that it was security

that slipped it in unknown to the owner of luggage for some "game" security is playing. me?, drugs?, no way. customs did it

[populistdriven]

12. I see a marketing opportunity for HLS labeled baggies in smoke shops nt

[Clear Blue Sky]

14. Wonderful. Get arrested in some foreign country with no legal recourse.

[jmowreader]

15. If Customs gives you free weed, you get to keep it, right?

[Bluebear]

16. "Lovely parting gifts"?

[onethatcares]

17. ain't nothing better in the world than

getting to your destination and finding the cops have rifled through every piece of clothes, toiletries, books and what not, finding a bag of weed would be on the up side. Of course, I would get pulled over and it would be just enough to count as trafficing, away to the hoosegow with ya then.:shrug: