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Japanese cop plants drugs.... then forgets where

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UPDATED: Thursday, June 5, 2008 15:35
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008 5:06 PM

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/05/26/japan-drugdog.html?ref=rss

Japanese customs officials apologized Monday for putting cannabis in an unsuspecting passenger's luggage but no one has come forward yet to accept the apology or to return the drugs.

A customs agent hoping to test Narita airport's sniffer dogs put 142 grams of cannabis into the side pocket of a randomly selected suitcase, officials said.

"The dog couldn't find it and the officer [then] forgot which bag he put it into," a spokeswoman told journalists in Tokyo. "If by some chance passengers find it in their suitcase, we're asking them to return it."

The cannabis is worth about $10,000 in Japan, which has some of the strictest anti-narcotics laws in Asia. No one has brought it back yet.

The head of customs at Narita apologized "deeply" for the incident.

"This case is deeply regrettable," Manpei Tanaka said.

Officials said the unnamed 38-year-old customs officer who planted the drugs was acting against regulations, which require a more controlled environment to test the airport's drug detecting dogs.

"I knew that using passengers' bags is prohibited," the officer was quoted as saying by the customs spokeswoman, "but I did it because I wanted to improve the sniffer dog's abilities.

"The dogs have always been able to find it before."

The man has been reprimanded and there is no word on the fate of the pooch that failed to find the drugs.

Lets party like its 1939

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Wednesday, June 4, 2008 5:57 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Okay, I don't smoke pot - been there, tried that, got the seed-burns on my Pink Floyd t-shirt - but if I got home and found ten grand worth of bud in my bag, I don't think I'd be trying to turn it in. Most likely, I'd dump it or flush it, rather than risk trying to be a good samaritan and end up face-down on the police station's floor with a pack of officers wailing on me...

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Wednesday, June 4, 2008 9:47 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Where is that place that they cut off your hands or head if caught bringing in drugs? is it Austrailia? Hong Kong? i think somewhere pacific Rim.
Maybe the victim cannot come forward with the stash due to execution.

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Thursday, June 5, 2008 10:06 AM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

OUCH !

I was going along thinking this was kinda' funny till I got to your post.

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Thursday, June 5, 2008 11:07 AM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

But then, on second thought, it could still be funny in a very dark way. The cops, judge, executioner - in a moment of shocked silence realize their justice has gone awry - So he WAS telling the truth when he said he didn't know how it got there !

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Thursday, June 5, 2008 2:38 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

THAT is so gorram funny! How to pay for your trip to Japan ? Let the customs agents check your bags!

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Thursday, June 5, 2008 3:35 PM

KIRKULES

If the Japanese cops would just throw in some 7-11 microwave burritos and some chocolate milk next time they would be the best cops ever.

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