Originally posted by xxxenophobeShe supposedly tried to smuggle 4 kilograms of marijuana into Bali, during the time when baggage-handlers had been fird/found guilty of looking and putting/taking stuff from peoples bags in airports...so a big controversy on her holding.
Who is that chick....
Originally posted by D43M0Nuhm.. yeah.. 4 kilos... ether she wanted to be cought... or it wasnt her... i mean damn... thats alotta reefer....
She supposedly tried to smuggle 4 kilograms of marijuana into Bali, during the time when baggage-handlers had been fird/found guilty of looking and putting/taking stuff from peoples bags in airports...so a big controversy on her holding.
Indonesia, Thailand etc are so corrupt it's impossible to tell who is telling the truth.
Bali domestic green is poor quality.. the stuff she had in her boogie board bag was top grade... worth heaps in Bali. thats motive - cash.
Traffickers do suck in young innocents to move shipments for large amounts of money.
The defence hinged on the possiblity of Brisbane baggage handlers stashing the stuff in her baggage for collection in Bali by bent baggage handlers there.
Is organised crime that big in Austalia that they can manage the baggage handling in a corrupt fashion in league with foreign airport handlers and not leave a trace? It may be bad, but I can't see it.
What you all are missing is that the pot was stashed in her boogie bag and was supposed to be removed by the baggage handlers in Sydney (I believe, or Brisbane) but for whatever reason the plot didn't work. Baggage handlers are busted quite regularly in Oz for stealing stuff; just recently there was video shot of a handler running around the tarmac wearing the head from a camel suit that a passenger had checked (believe it or not).
Literally thousands of complaints have been filed regarding theft of personal stuff from luggage, and in fact there's a new business in handler-proofing luggage.
There's virtually NO doubt that Schapelle is innocent; the only good news is she could have gotten the death penalty (which is common in Indonesia).
Another comment re Indonesian justice - as I understand it, the concept of the burden of proof resting on the prosecution is reversed there - the accused has to prove a counter argument to their guilt. Very tough (impossible) to do in this case. Nonetheless, a prisoner from Oz was flown in to testify that he knew all about the smuggling ring which used unwitting passengers, but the evidence was dismissed by the judge as "hearsay".
At the same time there's another group of kids (nicknamed the Bali 9, I think) who were in fact mules - they'd been duped by a drug runner to bring drugs into Indonesia, busted, in conjuntion with the Oz cops unfortunatelty, and it seems very likely that they WILL get death. One of the kids - 19 years old - is reported to cry himself to sleep every night in his cell screaming for his mother. It's a very unfortunate, stupid mistake that these kids made.
Originally posted by clive59She was going from Sydney to Bali - not the other way around. It was meant to be going to someone in Bali, but got caught by customs.
What you all are missing is that the pot was stashed in her boogie bag and was supposed to be removed by the baggage handlers in Sydney (I believe, or Brisbane) but for whatever reason the plot didn't work. Baggage handlers are busted quite regularly in Oz for stealing stuff; just recently there was video shot of a handler running around the tarmac wearing ...[text shortened]... s cell screaming for his mother. It's a very unfortunate, stupid mistake that these kids made.
Originally posted by clive59Pick up a boogie board
What you all are missing is that the pot was stashed in her boogie bag and was supposed to be removed by the baggage handlers in Sydney (I believe, or Brisbane) but for whatever reason the plot didn't work. Baggage handlers are busted quite regularly in Oz for stealing stuff; just recently there was video shot of a handler running around the tarmac wearing ...[text shortened]... s cell screaming for his mother. It's a very unfortunate, stupid mistake that these kids made.
pick up a 4 kg bag of spuds
pick up both
can you tell the difference?