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Drug Smuggling Guide - Mules and Suckers

By Roadjunky, Posted Dec 04, 2006

Don't be a drug mule

Who would be dumb enough to smuggle drugs for someone else?

It sounds unimaginable stupid but every year people are either duped or talked into this kind of deal. In general the smooth operators choose young women and offer them a free holiday to Thailand or Colombia. On the way back he’ll ask them, if they wouldn’t mind, to carry the odd suitcase with them he’s over his baggage allowance already. Feeling obligated after their great holiday they agree. All over the world these unwitting ‘mules’ are now serving life sentences after getting caught with kilos of heroin.

thai jail cell

Just a reminder: this could be you! http://www.flickr.com/photos/robinedwards3/

In other cases, the mules will know what’s going on but they will have been chosen from poor families in the origin country and it’s their one shot at making some money. If they succeed they make a fraction of the profit, provided the operators feel like paying them, and if they fail they go down alone.


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