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87 kg marijuana bust at Beijing airportPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, March 18, 2009 6:54 PM
 No sir, you can't bring that in The front page of today's Beijing News features a photo of two Beijing airport customs officers, a passenger and the contents of his luggage: 87 kg of marijuana. According to the report, the man flew to Beijing from Lagos via Doha on March 2. He went though customs without his hold luggage. On March 3, he returned to the airport to pick up his overweight baggage. His plastic-wrapped cargo of hash attracted the interest of the customs officers. The article does not say what the authorities plan to do with the man. Links and Sources
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Comments on 87 kg marijuana bust at Beijing airport
on a related note:
would-be social hosts throughout 五道口 scramble to find alternative last-minute "party favors" before friday night.
If you need that much hash why not just go to Yunnan, no customs to deal with.
From Nigeria...
This story was on page 5 of China Daily, March 18.
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The photograph looks very odd - like a cheap Photoshop job. The wall at the back is very white, the wall to the right doesn't seem to abide the laws of perspective. The officers' hair and suitcase look like they've been "cut out", the shadows look as though they were added.
Also, this Nigerian man who can cart around 87 kg of marijuana seems to be hardly bigger than an Oompa Loompa.
My tenant is from Africa (forgot which country), last week the police came and told us we must register his residency at the authority and report regularly how many people and who live with him because, as the police said, there's been a rise in drug trade by Africans in China.
And he will be subject to random inspection, which I suspect all Africans in this country will be, call it racist or privacy intrusion but if we don't follow these precedures there will be a huge fine waiting for us and him.
Good thing is our contract will terminate in 6 months and I believe he won't be renewing it.
I like that the china daily article says:
"Drug smugglers have started using more "sophisticated ways" to transport illegal and banned substances"
Stuffing suitcases with 90 kilos of hash and take a plane? Sophisticated, indeed.