Posted on 06/14/2004 6:19:36 PM PDT by Dog Gone
OSLO, Norway -- A smuggler swallowed 3.5 pounds of cocaine to avoid detection but was caught in southern Norway nevertheless, the customs service said today.
Per Emil Wikoeren, head the Customs Region Southern Norway, said the man, posing as an asylum seeker, had swallowed the cocaine in 160 small packages.
"That is a Norwegian record and we have found nothing in our databases to indicate that anywhere in this world has anyone swallowed 1.6 kilograms (3.5 pounds)," he told state radio network NRK.
The man, originally from Nigeria and in his 20s, arrived from Madrid at the small airport near the southern Norway city of Kristiansand in late May.
Wikoeren declined to estimate the value of the cocaine. The customs service withheld information about the find until now to protect the investigation.
"There were things that resulted in us becoming interested and the longer we continued the more sure we were that something was wrong," he said.
The suspect, whose name was withheld in keeping with Norwegian practice, declined food or water while he was being questioned.
"That further strengthened our suspicions," he said. "We also know this smuggling method is often used when traveling by air."
When the man was X-rayed, hospital personnel were stunned by the images showing bags of cocaine in his stomach. It took three days before they all passed safely out of him and were recovered.
""It was a terrible risk. If any of these packages had leaked it would have resulted in death," said Wikoeren. "He said he spent hours swallowing the packages."
Wikoeren said the man's asylum request was denied and he's being held a refugee center near Kristiansand, 150 miles south of Oslo, while police investigate the case.
Oh, man, some days the jokes just write themselves.
I'd bet that those 'bags' weren't bags at all. Smugglers usually use condoms.
Was it Algore? Anyone see Hannity and Colmes just now? They got another clip of Al flipping out once again. Ann Coulter was on, asked Alan why democ-rats always pick the insane candidates.
My hat is off to the Nigerian Michael Moore.
Talk is cheap.
Is Micheal Moore from Nigeria? :)
The Guinness Book of Records exists for a reason. World class feats--even in idiotic pursuits--are difficult and remarkable.
,,, surprise, surprise.
,,, 1,6kg of Peruvian marching powder down the hatch!
I'll bet that would have been some bad s__t. ;^)
I didn't say he was. I merely commented on what some people can swallow and posted a picture of a fat man.
Leni
There's a Cheech & Chong routine in there somewhere, I just KNOW it.
..."I can eat sixty eggs". Paul Neuman in "Cool Hand Luke". three pounds. I'm convinced it's possible. I don't do drugs, cocaine any more, but I probably snorted a pound from 1980 to 1985. Swallow three pounds of cocaine at one sitting, don't recommend that ...%^)
Maybe this was 'Jabba' the Nigerian.
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