{"id":1680,"date":"2008-05-27T09:56:51","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T00:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2008-05-29T17:30:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T08:30:40","slug":"cnn-narita-customs-spike-hk-passengers-bag-with-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=1680","title":{"rendered":"CNN: Narita Customs spike HK passenger’s bag with cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHi Blog. \u00a0I think this is perhaps the most ridiculous story on Japan I’ve heard this decade.<\/p>\n

According to CNN, Narita Customs put a bag of marijuana in some visiting NJ’s bag to test their sniffer dogs. \u00a0Then they lose track of it!<\/p>\n

Now just imagine if that innocent NJ was later caught with it. \u00a0We’re talking Nick Baker (finally sent back to the UK after 6 years in Japanese jail)<\/a> and other NJ judicial hostages (who can never leave custody or be granted bail until they go through years of slow Japanese jurisprudence, even when judged innocent).<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, we make sure we cause meiwaku to none of our tribe (or to ourselves–think serious chances of a lawsuit from a native)–we use the Gaijin as Guinea Pig. \u00a0Yokoso Japan! \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Customs slip cannabis into passenger’s bag<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

CNN May 26, 2008 — Updated 1641 GMT (0041 HKT)<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/05\/26\/tokyo.cannabis\/index.html?iref=mpstoryview<\/a><\/p>\n

Courtesy of Chad Edwards<\/p>\n

(CNN)\u00a0— A passenger who landed at Tokyo’s Narita airport over the weekend has ended up with a surprise souvenir courtesy of customs officials — a package of cannabis.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sniffer dogs failed to find the cannabis after it had been slipped into a passenger’s bag.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A customs official hid the package in a suitcase belonging to a passenger arriving from Hong Kong as part of an exercise for sniffer dogs on Sunday, Reuters.com reported.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

However, staff then lost track of the drugs and suitcase during the exercise, a spokeswoman for Tokyo customs said.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Customs regulations specify that a training suitcase be used for such exercises, but the official had used passengers’ suitcases for similar purposes in the past, domestic media reported.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tokyo customs has asked anyone who finds the package to return it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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You dumb shits! \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think this is perhaps the most ridiculous story on Japan I’ve heard this decade. According to CNN, Narita Customs put a bag of marijuana in some visiting NJ’s bag to test their sniffer dogs. Then they lose track of it! Now just imagine if that innocent person was later caught with it. We’re talking Nick Baker (finally sent back to the UK after 6 years in Japanese jail) and other NJ judicial hostages (who can never leave custody or be granted bail until they go through years of slow jurisprudence, even when judged innocent). Of course, we make sure we cause meiwaku to none of our tribe(or to ourselves–think serious chances of a lawsuit from a native)–we use the Gaijin as Guinea Pig. Yokoso Japan! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ironies-hypocrisies","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-problematic-foreign-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}