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Japanese Customs Blunder - Plants Marijuana In Travelers Luggage - Loses Track of It

Submitted by national on Monday, 26 May 2008One Comment

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A shocked airline passenger has returned a million yen’s worth of cannabis that customs staff planted in his bag in a bungled sniffer dog exercise.

Japan Today reports that the passenger discovered a small metal box containing the cannabis tucked in a side compartment of his suitcase when he got to his hotel.

In a training exercise at Narita International Airport yesterday, officers stuffed 140 grams of marijuana into the bag of a passenger chosen at random so a dog could detect it.

The trouble is, the dog did not sniff it out, and the officer forgot which bag it was in.

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One Comment »

  • Tino said:

    That’s messed up! What if the passanger was transfering to another country, one which would have discovered the marijuana and would have locked the poor innocent passanger in some hell hole prison for the rest of their life… jeez, who’s to say this hasn’t happened before. I think this story needs to further be investigated to see if this hasn’t happened before, and to see if some poor innocent people aren’t locked away in prisons across the world because of something messed up like this.

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