Cannabis blunder at Tokyo airport

[meegbear]

An unwitting passenger arriving at Japan's Narita airport has received 142g of cannabis after a customs test went awry, officials say.

A customs officer hid a package of the banned substance in a side pocket of a randomly chosen suitcase in order to test airport security.

Sniffer dogs failed to detect the cannabis and the officer could not remember which bag he had put it in.

Anyone finding the package has been asked to contact customs officials.

"This case was extremely regrettable. I would like to deeply apologise," said Narita International Airport's customs head Manpei Tanaka.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7419969.stm

[JohnyCanuck]

1. Fire the dog. n/t

[Blue_Tires]

6. actually, fire the dog trainer...

There was a high-profile story in P.G. County some years ago where the police gave out this $30,000 contract for someone to train drug dogs...Everything went fine until the cops started flubbing cases because the dogs hadn't been trained AT ALL (in fact, they tested worse than untrained dogs)

[Cooley Hurd]

2. I hope no one returns it...

:D:smoke:

[flor de jasmim]

3. I hope the poor people don't get arrested at another airport...

[Alexander]

4. So an officer ended up giving a person weed?

:rofl:

[unpossibles]

5. "honey.... Uh, did you pack this?" nt