Mother, 57, faces execution by a gunshot to the heart in Taiwan for drug smuggling - but blames her ex-husband after 15lb of cocaine and heroin is found in her suitcase

Daily Mail ^ | 5-23-24 | OLIVIA DAY and CHRIS JEWERS

[End Times Sentinel]

there are people who, for sport, will do this to you.

No one wastes $100k in cocaine "for sport".

[End Times Sentinel]

Some of it is done as a loss leader to use up resources of the state so they can make use of other methods.

What you're talking about is called "pinging the system" and it's done with much smaller amounts to discover detection methods.

[Jonty30]

You are correct. The amount is too much for it to be a distraction to the airport authorities. She was likely guilty of the charges.

Foolish woman.

[Pilsner]

The amount is too much for it to be a distraction to the airport authorities.

I remember a comedy bit, probably from the ‘70s, where a guy charged with drug possession complains to his friend:

”The cops planted that weed in my car, man!”

“How much?”

“Five-hundred pounds.”