Chinese Man Busted Smuggling Ketamine at Phnom Penh Airport

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Oumedc wrote: Tue Oct 11, 2022 4:39 pm
Spigzy wrote: Tue Oct 11, 2022 2:27 pm I think 'mule' is the correct term? :D


Mule that is now a jackass
The mule that was a donkey, and is now a jackass, got busted for horse tranquilizer.
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Pseudonomdeplume wrote: Tue Oct 11, 2022 8:29 pm
Oumedc wrote: Tue Oct 11, 2022 4:39 pm
Spigzy wrote: Tue Oct 11, 2022 2:27 pm I think 'mule' is the correct term? :D


Mule that is now a jackass
The mule that was a donkey, and is now a jackass, got busted for horse tranquilizer.
Horse tranquilizer? Do you even realize that Ketamine has been one of the most commonly used human anesthesia pharmaceuticals for more than 50 years?
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Doc67 wrote: Tue Oct 11, 2022 1:20 pm Who would try to smuggle 1KG of ketamine from here to Thailand? Is it so much more valuable there than here?

Airports have all the equipment needed to find this stuff easily, it makes no sense. I am fairly sure they screen all checked in baggage, not just arriving luggage, so you are just asking to get caught.
They certainly do I had 3 bottles of whiskey in my check in bag at Phnom Penh airport a few years ago , going thought the scanners upstairs they checked my boarding pass call me over, got escorted back downstairs into the back where luggage is sorted taken into a room, there's my bag on a table with 4 cops around it, I shit myself, think I've seen to many movies, anyway once they realized what the bottles were , everything was sweet except for my heart rate.
I'm standing up, so I must be straight.
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Re: Chinese Man Busted Smuggling Ketamine at Phnom Penh Airport

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John Bingham wrote: Tue Oct 11, 2022 8:54 pm
Pseudonomdeplume wrote: Tue Oct 11, 2022 8:29 pm
Oumedc wrote: Tue Oct 11, 2022 4:39 pm
Spigzy wrote: Tue Oct 11, 2022 2:27 pm I think 'mule' is the correct term? :D


Mule that is now a jackass
Painkiller, I believe.

The mule that was a donkey, and is now a jackass, got busted for horse tranquilizer.
Horse tranquilizer? Do you even realize that Ketamine has been one of the most commonly used human anesthesia pharmaceuticals for more than 50 years?
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atst wrote: Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:00 pm
Doc67 wrote: Tue Oct 11, 2022 1:20 pm Who would try to smuggle 1KG of ketamine from here to Thailand? Is it so much more valuable there than here?

Airports have all the equipment needed to find this stuff easily, it makes no sense. I am fairly sure they screen all checked in baggage, not just arriving luggage, so you are just asking to get caught.
They certainly do I had 3 bottles of whiskey in my check in bag at Phnom Penh airport a few years ago , going thought the scanners upstairs they checked my boarding pass call me over, got escorted back downstairs into the back where luggage is sorted taken into a room, there's my bag on a table with 4 cops around it, I shit myself, think I've seen to many movies, anyway once they realized what the bottles were , everything was sweet except for my heart rate.
Pre-Covid I was flying from Hanoi. Checked in, luggage gone, go to the security check. Officer scans my boarding pass and an alarm goes off. I instantly start shitting myself, thinking who could have placed drugs in my suitcase, having my life flash by. Turns out I had forgotten two batteries for my camera in the suitcase....
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Isn't ketamine the date rape drug of choice, and potentially leave the victim infertile???
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Kangaruchi wrote: Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:42 am Isn't ketamine the date rape drug of choice, and potentially leave the victim infertile???
No. That's Rohypnol. And I've never heard of any connection between ketamine and infertility.
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John Bingham wrote: Wed Oct 12, 2022 9:18 am
Kangaruchi wrote: Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:42 am Isn't ketamine the date rape drug of choice, and potentially leave the victim infertile???
No. That's Rohypnol. And I've never heard of any connection between ketamine and infertility.
Or GHB - which can induce amnesia or blackouts so the victim might not even remember anything at all.

https://www.drugs.com/illicit/ghb.html#
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