Stan 101 said:Extremeley easy my friend...Never forget that most asians are thrid world people and would never want another to go through hardship...There are always the same percentage, though.
If you look for Ganja or worse, you'll find it in a flash. Just go to Koh Pan gnang on a full moon party night to find more extacy than you need.
In Asia, you can walk up to a Pharmacy (chemist) and get whatever you want.... no questions asked. I don't take illegal substances, but the amount of toursists who hear me speaking local dialect who ask me for weed/.speed/ whatever is astonishing...If you want to smoke spliff, get a guest house in Nimbin, you'll have a better time...
Wysiwyg said:A win/win situation...the buyer gets to escape from the confines of ho-hum and the seller makes some money to live off.Fortunately in our country you can escape the confines of ho-hum without drugs.
Stan 101 said:That sounds so negitive... Could you expand on that, please
lol - I used to hire bludy gr8 1000cc bikes in Thailand - but you're right, the stories were rife of people being run off the road, then not being allowed their passports back until they coughed up bigtime.Stan 101 said:in all my meagre (by many others standards) of time in asia, the worst I have had to bribe my way out of is for wheel standing a 150cc motorcycle in cambodia .Getting run over by a taxi in India cost me a weeks pay to get the guy's taxi back on the road. By the cops's reckoning I wasa tourist. If I wasn't in the country, I would never have hit the taxi, therefore I was in the wrong... I couple of roupies later he had me on the way to hospital in the same cab LOL
Ahh! the movie, the corby family will be able to go legit'.Realist said:It'll make for a good Aussie movie!!
Stan 101 said:Getting run over by a taxi in India cost me a weeks pay to get the guy's taxi back on the road. By the cops's reckoning I wasa tourist. If I wasn't in the country, I would never have hit the taxi, therefore I was in the wrong...
which makes it ok? . (PS question then is ... is channel 9 above this sort of thing lol) This poll being conducted on nineMSNhttp://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=254462
'Today Tonight' host defends Corby lies, Wednesday Mar 14 05:00 AEDT
By ninemsn staff
Today Tonight host Anna Coren yesterday admitted lies were involved in an attempt to set up a televised showdown between Mercedes Corby and former friend Jodi Power. But Coren stressed that the program's private investigator did not use deceased diplomat Liz O'Neill's name, The Daily Telegraph reports.
An outraged Mercedes claims Brisbane PI Colin Chapman told her over the phone that he had papers belonging to Liz O'Neill, who was killed in last week's Garuda jet crash. She says upon arriving to meet the caller, she was ambushed by a Today Tonight reporter and five TV cameras. Coren acknowledged that the program did intentionally deceive Mercedes, but said Chapman never once used Liz O'Neill's name.
"He said that he was an official, he never said he was from the Department of Foreign Affairs. He said he was an official with some documents that would help Schapelle," Coren told the Telegraph. "I think Mercedes asked him whether he was from Today Tonight and he said 'no'."
"I think the most disappointing part of this whole thing was that Liz O'Neill's name has been brought into this. It's deplorable, it's simply deplorable." Coren also accused the Nine camp of running a smear campaign against her, and falsely portraying the show as tacky and untruthful.
She has no regrets about the deception used to lure Mercedes in for an interview, saying the private investigator is not bound by the same rules and principles as journalists. "As to the way he went about it, well he's not a journalist, he's a private investigator," Coren said.
"His code of conduct and ethics is different to our code of conduct and ethics."
For Scott Rush to be hung or shot would be... "overkill" (?) - SURELY it won't happen !! ( will it?)2020hindsight said:and how ironical that Scott Rush is included with the other two on death row. - considering his father brought the matter to the attention of the police. SURELY that can't happen.
I think the moral of THAT story is don't expect the Aus Federal Police to do anything other than pass on the info and watch you get hung.
Rush's death penalty unconstitutional, says lawyer. The lawyer for convicted drug mule Scott Rush says a two-pronged appeal will be mounted in Indonesian courts in the next few weeks.
Darwin-based Colin McDonald QC says the first appeal to Indonesia's Constitutional Court will start next week and run for a month.
Mr McDonald will argue that as a recent signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Indonesia should reserve the death penalty for the most serious crimes, like murder.
"There is plenty of international jurisprudence to say that middle-ranking, drug-related crime is not in the most serious category," he said.
"Therefore, at least in relation to middle-ranking drug crime, the death penalty is unconstitutional."
He says the legal team is more confident about a later appeal to the Supreme Court questioning the sentencing judges' rationale for the death penalty.
AnalysisParalysis said:If you were a keen boogie boarder, you'd have carried your board a fair bit, I think that's fair to say. The cover apparently had a broken strap, so sounds like it too was well used.
Surely, you'd notice the difference between carrying a rigid foam object, and a soft, bendy pillow-type object.
Having said that, I could say that after a long flight, if it was me, would probably just ignore it due to laziness. I mean, would you pick up your boogie board, and be thinking, "Hmmm...this feels slightly different, I must open the board cover and make sure that it really is still a boogie board..."
You wouldn't really be expecting anything but your board to be in there. You'd just be thinking about the hotel bed.
Anyway, my view is that a board cover full of pot would weigh more and feel different, and you'd notice it.
I do sypathize though, what a waste of a life. She looked OK in the bikini photo.
AnalysisParalysis said:Well, God knows either way.
Kinda harsh penalties, just for pot. She might just be a heavy user.
Channel Seven guilty in Corby defamation case
Posted 2 hours 28 minutes ago
Updated 1 hour 45 minutes ago
A New South Wales Supreme Court jury has found that Channel Seven defamed Mercedes Corby in a series of news and current affairs stories broadcast earlier this year.
Ms Corby sued Channel Seven over the network's interviews with her former best friend, Jodie Power, in February.
The sister of convicted drug smuggler Schappelle Corby argued she was defamed by false implications that she was a drug dealer and smuggler.
Channel Seven mounted an offence of truth, but was struck down on all but one point.
The jury found Seven did establish it was true Mercedes Corby was guilty of the crime of possession of marijuana but not that she was a smuggler or dealer.
"I just want to say I'm really happy, I've still got more to do but I'm really happy with the outcome," Ms Corby said outside the court. etc
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