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Drug Smuggler Foiled By Motion Sickness

Vomiting Is Not Criminal -- But Smuggling Is

A drug smuggler from Ghana made an unsuccessful attempt to get his contraband to Amsterdam last Saturday. Was he caught by the police? Interpol? CIA? Nope, none of the above.

The unfortunate man was found out by a bout of... wait for it... airsickness. That's right, the smuggler started vomiting the egg-sized balls of cocaine he'd swallowed.

The KLM crew made an emergency landing in Barcelona where the policia arrested him, then took him to a hospital. There, Doctors performed emergency surgery because one of the 96 packets of cocaine the man swallowed had burst.

Spanish authorities siezed a record 46.6 tons of cocaine last year. The Policia say our smuggling hero was carrying nearly four pounds of the illegal drug in his stomach.

Note to you drug kings out there, you might want to make sure your drug mules don't suffer from motion sickness. Or how about a patch, we hear those work pretty well.

FMI: www.usdoj.gov

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