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[Bulsajo]

[desultude]

Seoultrader asked:

[Bulsajo]

Okay, fair enough- let's assume he is innocent then and deal with the supposition that he was set up by his employer- any thoughts on that?

[On the other hand]

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[Mr. Kalgukshi]

khyber wrote:

"....they should drug test the owner. If it's addressed to the school,(and the boy is a fool for signing) why isn't the owner also being charged?"

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I'm curious.

What charge would you have filed against the owner? Maintaining an address to which someone may send parcels and other mail from anywhere in the world.

Class A Felony?

The owner skates. The guy who signed for the parcel doesn't.

Experentia docet, but sometimes at a very serious price.

[Haggard]

If his hagwon is like most others, the secretaries handle all incoming mail. They generally sign for everything and it's then distributed to teachers later. They do NOT normally seek out teachers to sign for specific packages on a regular basis simply because it's not feasible. Teachers are in class, and they can't pull them out every time a package comes, so the secretaries handle it. So you have to wonder why he was asked to sign for a package that was not addressed to him in the first place. This would seem to be the responsibility of the school on the surface. There are several possibilities.

1. He arranged to have it specifically not addressed in his name in order to provide himself cover if he got caught with the weed. I've seen others pull this off...successfully. He very possibly could have volunteered to sign for it, knowing that it was intended for him.

2. The package came from abroad, addressed in English, and it was addressed only to the hagwon without a specific teacher's name on it. In this case, it's possible that the secretary simply assumed it was intended for a foreign teacher there and asked him to sign for it because he was either A) the only whitey around at the time or b) the only whitey that worked there. If it's A, then there's a chance he got railroaded, although slim. If it's B and he was the only whitey working there, his signing for the package pretty much guarantees he was expecting it and/or knew who sent it.

The article says that he "was arrested and imprisoned just moments after signing for a package that was not addressed to him at his school"

This means that customs found the drugs, allowed them to go through to the destination, and was waiting in the wings for someone to sign for them. This also means that they could have easily alerted the school owner and possibly other employees of the school beforehand, and they were in on the sting and sought out this kid to sign instead of the normal routine of a Korean secretary signing for it.

A few more points:

I worked at a hagwon for 2 years and received numerous packages from different shipping companies during that time. Never once was I asked to sign for any of them.

If the package came from abroad, odds are he's either guilty or unbelievably naive. If it came from within Korea, there's a chance that he was set up. I still have a hard time believing that a hagwon would go through the time, effort, and risk of setting up a 22-year old on a bogus drug charge when they could just as easily manufacture some fake incompetency charges to get out of paying the bonuses and airfare.

Obviously there are a lot of variables the article doesn't cover that need to be known before anyone can make a reasonable judgment. Hopefully someone who knew him or worked at that Wonderland can come forward with some of those variables.

[Seoultrader]

[quote="desultude"]Seoultrader asked:

[Seoultrader]

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[Ghostinthemachine]

Seoultrader wrote

[Seoultrader]

[Ghostinthemachine]

I'm happy to hear you're getting your money's worth.

[kiwioutofthenest]

What the OP wants to know is if anyone knows this guy or is it all just a load of BS?

[Haggard]