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littlenut
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 Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject: Airline Passenger 1 - Customs 0 \ |
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Saw this on Keith Olbermann on MSNBC and found this article! I like it !!
Are you ready for this one...
According to customs officials at Tokyo-Narita airport, the main international gateway serving Japan, an unwitting passenger arriving accidentally received 142g (approximately 5 ounces) of pure cannabis after a customs test went sour. Believe it or not, a Japanese customs officer hid the huge sack of weed in a side pocket of a randomly chosen suitcase in order to verify the quality of their airport security.
However, the drug-sniffing dogs were unable to find the hidden parcel, and the customs official (who may have been sampling a bit of the contraband) could not remember which bag he put it in! Like all drugs in Japan, marijuana is highly illegal, which means that a quantity of this size is estimated to have a street value of around $10,000 or 1,000,000 yen.
Anyone finding the package has been asked to contact customs officials immediately.
The man behind the botched operation is one Mr. Manpei Tanaka, who serves as the head of customs at Tokyo-Narita airport. In typical Japanese fashion, Mr. Tanaka was extremely humble about the entire affair: "This case was extremely regrettable. I would like to deeply apologize."
Of course, honorable words aren't going to make the situation any easier on the absent minded customs official as it is illegal to conduct tests on a passenger's bag.
According to Mr. Tanaka: "I knew that using passengers' bags is prohibited, but I did it because I wanted to improve the sniffer dog's ability. The dogs have always been able to find it before... I became overconfident that it would work."
So far there have been no reports of anyone uncovering the missing weed stash, though customs officials are confident that it will be returned to the airport within the next twenty-four hours.
Why not me Lord?? Why not me?
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shortyflow
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| I would fly back to Tae Kwon Do anytime see if they send me home with some more japanese Buds |
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socrateez
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 10:49 am Post subject: |
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I suspect canines in general suffer the same sort of nonchalance as people do when working repetitive tasks. This was not routine from the dogs perspective.
Why would dog handlers have to do something like this to control accuracy?
I wonder the ratio of reasonable suspicions or causes noted by LEO's prior to a K9 sniff compared to those noted when a K9 is the primary indicator and not the handler. If dogs are so fool proof, than why the emphasis recently on behavioral anomaly detection in people by LE? why do people need to be trained to spot smugglers and terrorist behavior cues when the dogs are soo effective?
It's a ploy to makes us feel safer while stomping our rights with furry feet. How can we debate a dog?
Her's a .PDF of electronic detection measures:
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/183260.pdf |
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