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Hater Depot
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 Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:36 am Post subject: Not a good time to travel through Dubai |
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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23436226-details/Briton+jailed+in+Dubai+after+officials+find+cannabis+weighing+less+than+a+grain+of+sugar+under+his+shoe/article.do
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A father-of-three who was found with a microscopic speck of cannabis stuck to the bottom of one of his shoes has been sentenced to four years in a Dubai prison.
Keith Brown, a council youth development officer, was travelling through the United Arab Emirates on his way back to England when he was stopped as he walked through Dubai's main airport.
A search by customs officials uncovered a speck of cannabis weighing just 0.003g - so small it would be invisible to the naked eye and weighing less than a grain of sugar - on the tread of one of his shoes.
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Last night campaign group Fair Trials International advised visitors to Dubai and Abu Dhabi to "take extreme caution".
Chief Executive Catherine Wolthuizen said: "We have seen a steep increase in such cases over the last 18 months.
"Customs authorities are using highly sensitive new equipment to conduct extremely thorough searches on travellers and if they find any amount - no matter how minute - it will be enough to attract a mandatory four-year prison sentence."
Mrs Wolthuizen added: "We even have reports of the imprisonment of a Swiss man for 'possession' of three poppy seeds on his clothing after he ate a bread roll at Heathrow. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok, this goes beyond insanity. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
| Ok, this goes beyond insanity. |
Beyond the insanity of the Western world where a Canadian snowboarder successfully argued he inhaled but didn't smoke and an American president claimed he smoked but didn't inhale.
The whole world is going mad. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I guess the shiny new buildings are just lipstick on a pig. |
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wannago
Joined: 16 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| thepeel wrote: |
| I guess the shiny new buildings are just lipstick on a pig. |
Ummmm....not on a P-I-G...a goat maybe.
Yes, at the end of the day, Dubai and the UAE (often called the California of the Middle East) is still controlled by Muslims. Not as uptight as Saudi, but still bass ackwards so much of the time. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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Well, if the crime of smuggling weed under their law requires no mens rea considerations, then the guy is guilty as hell.
I haven't smoked in a loooong time. If he came to Korea like that, I would have smoked his shoe. Probably wouldn't get the buzz I'd be hoping for, but what the hell. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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I've been several times in the past 6 months for work. My naive White friends always go on about "ohhhhh, I hear it is liberal and Western there". I can't even muster a response anymore.
No. Dubai isn't liberal.
No. Dubai isn't Western.
Yes. Dubai is muslim and very aggressively so. |
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