very true........and other drugs were in dem bottles too......Originally Posted by Stuart Love
then they started the mule train which still goes on today.......
mi know a gurl from Jamaica that caught at NY Kennedy being mule......
she got a lot of years for doing it...
met her in Negril before she got caught....her sista told mi the story......
she might still be in prison....dunno.......pretty sad mon when it think it was for a lousy 1,000US....
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I wonder if that machine they use to test the swabs just lights up for everybody? I'm thinking it's just a good bit of customs police theater, designed to make you think you're busted if you do have something to hide.
US customs always is more intense for me than Jamaican customs. They ask all kind of personal questions of me (solo female traveller) which I am becoming quite skilled at deflecting by playing an old clueless white woman.
yep - i have become quite adept at playing "clueless tourist" at C & I at both ends...... although sometimes i have to grit my teeth and resist the compunction to "tell these people a thing or two" -- but since i look the part, it usually works.
"They search right at the gate, going through the metal detector at the same time....the officer, a female, had her hands all over, including shaking my bra and lifting it up and down and she undid my jeans button."
I was asked to take everything off. I got down to my underwear and she said that too. She wanted to know what the buldge was all about. I told her I was either growing balls or it was that 'time' of the month. She came at my crotch saying women have been know to take drugs there. I said, baby put your hand there and be ready to DO me. Yes, I showed her the pad I was wearing. I was too numb to give a darn. All this because I had to return 'too soon" for my father's funeral that I had proof of. To this day I still get freaked out about going through Montego Bay customs and have canceled many trips at the last minute at the thought of that happening again.
IREE....JAMAICAN BORN AND BRED
That would be terrible SW.
My first trip to JA was March 1982 We had a direct charter out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Everyone on the plane were staying at the same hotel or most of us anyway. One girl was African Canadian and got so sunburned on the first day that she spent the rest of her vacation in bed. She thought her brown skin wouldn't burn. Duh
And 2 young guys from the charter, well I guess we were all young then, about 20 yeras old. These 2 guys has rastas hanging out at their room/balcony all the time.
When we went to the airport in MoBay, one of the 2 of the guys got pulled aside, the other went through. The one that was free went directly to the washroom where he put a block of coke behind the toilet which was very quickly retrieved by the police. They found him and he was arrested as well. About a week later it was in our Halifax newspaper.
And a friends brother was a mule for a guy and got caught leaving Mobay. His family called me ( I was living in Grand Cayman at the time) to see what I could do. Nothing of course except tell them to get all the money they had to get him out of there ASAP. It was scary for Tim, alone in JA in a cell with LOTS of Jamaican men. They took everything he owned.
1982 a friend filled a carving with oil. He cleared custom at JFK and told his buddy that he needed to get something out of his suitcase!!!!
Based on what was happening I was scared to death about having my butt thrown in a Jamaican jail. My father was a cop so I have seen the inside of many, very tiny and crowded. However based on Bertha's response to my challenge, I was comforted by the fact that in Jamaica jail they might take everything but our BU++s would be safe:-) I am glad I was able to 'get over' the fear and hate of what happened in time to return with my kids.
IREE....JAMAICAN BORN AND BRED
Lol! @ me no sen....yuh no cum??
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