Stupid, Naive, Or Purposely Smuggling Drugs.

[webbo3]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41950987


\\In a phone call from her cell, Ms Plummer told the BBC she was given the tablets by a colleague for her Egyptian partner, Omar Caboo, who has "back problems".
She said the colleague put them in a chemist's bag, which she put in her suitcase.
"I didn't even look in bag," she said. "I can't tell you how stupid I feel."//

As they are Prescription only doesn't the person who gave them to her need them.?

A colleague put them in a chemists bag, which she never looked in, so it could have been a kilo of heroin or coke or a bomb.

remember the question at the airport, about knowing whats in your suitcase.


Trying to make some money I think.


Dave.

[Spicerack]

No sympathy from me.
Sounds like there should be a further investigation in this country.
I wonder how much those tablets cost?

[Togo]

Agree Spice. These are prescription only drugs here in the UK. Where did that drug in such quantity come from? She was certainly stupid. Anyone travelling to "these" countries has got to realise that there is a campaign underway to arrest if only to cause massive embarrassment, and detain, particularly British subjects on the flimsiest of evidence. To actually give them good cause is stupid in the extreme.

[-Talbot-]

Purposely Smuggling Drugs?

300 Tramadol tablets?

I doubt it, even if there is an added premium on them in Egypt I doubt it would be worth the risk.

[foxspur]

Very very dodgy.

[hc4361]

They sell for 8p a pill in Egypt on the black market so I don't think she was doing it for the money

[webbo3]

https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21648690-painkiller-becomes-egypts-favourite-recreational-drug-pill-work-and-play


\\THE little pills of Tramadol are ubiquitous in Egypt. Taxi drivers take them to stay awake on the road. Men use them to improve their sexual prowess. Petty officials readily accept them as a bribe. And wedding guests even receive them as token gifts. Tramadol has become Egypt’s favourite recreational drug, supplanting heroin and cannabis.//

[maggiebee]

Tramadol? Didn't know they had a "street" value. Had loads of them after my two hip operations which I returned to the chemist. Maybe could have been a nice little earner?

[ToraToraTora]

smuggling no question, who needs 300 pain killer tabs?

[hc4361]

That would be less than 3 months supply for somebody with persistent pain

[jno]

300 painkillers isn't much for someone with back problems, but it's no way to make a fortune. A few months' supply maybe. When I'm in the USA I routinely pick up several months' supply of pills I can't get here (nothing illegal, they're just not sold here). Sounds quite plausible to me.

[webbo3]

Not when they are banned in Egypt and a prescription drug here, and not here prescription.

[jno]

who knows what drugs are banned in Egypt? If I was taking Tramadols I wouldn't have thought twice about taking them on holiday. Who reads up on all the laws of countries they're holidaying in? Not me.

[hc4361]

I don't even know what items I can't take out of the UK, jno, nor what I can send internally through the Royal Mail.
Don't pop a lottery ticket in that Christmas card for Aunty Mabel.

[webbo3]

Jno, but you wouldn't take something from someone without looking in the bag, and why didn't the boyfriend come and pick them up.

[jno]

not looking in the bag is irrelevant. If she had, all she would have seen would be 300 Tramadols. The problem is that they were illegal and she didn't know.

[webbo3]

But im guessing her Egyptian boyfriend would have done.

[237SJ]

Stupid girl. So when she was asked at the airport "Are you carrying anything for anyone else?" she must have lied about that too. There could have been explosives in that bag.

[hc4361]

She should say where she got the Tramadol from. You can buy them in the UK online for 5p each plus a £15 consultation fee.

[webbo3]

Hc, it says a friend gave them to her.

[jno]

maybe. You'll have to ask him; it doesn't seem as though anyone else has (though why he'd want her to smuggle things that would sell for very little is beyond me). It doesn't affect what the woman knew, though.