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al_pacappuchino t1_jdz2fh9 wrote

Reply to comment by goldfinger1906 in N.Y. to pay $5.5 million to man exonerated in writer Alice Sebold rape case by OutsideObserver2

Speaking of drug dogs. I once flew with a few coworkers to a bother country. The flight went with out a hitch, and get our luggage and walk past a uniformed officer and his dog on our way. Once we get out to the street waiting for a cab my coworker pulls out his cigarette package from his pocket and pulls out a fat joint. Sparks it up and inhales. I asked him how the hell he had the stones to just walk past security with that one in his pocket and asked aren’t you afraid of the dogs? He he goes: yeah, no! Those are just for show dude! I was flabbergasted.

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MaidenPilled t1_je10evr wrote

Dogs may not have been trained for marijuana. If you're looking for coke or heroin mules you don't want your dog to alert every time a college student walks by. Dog may not have been trained for drugs at all. At airports I'm pretty sure a lot of the dogs are for explosives, not drugs.

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somme_rando t1_je1b3ut wrote

Sometimes none of the above -

https://www.mpi.govt.nz/news/media-releases/mpi-introduces-new-biosecurity-sniffers/
>The detector dogs on show at the Auckland Biosecurity Centre today included media celebrity Clara, a recently graduated border biosecurity dog, and Boston, a springer spaniel that MPI is training to work in the field to detect any pest that makes it across the border.

>“We are working to develop a new type of dog that will be able to help with biosecurity responses. It will have the flexibility to be trained to detect any new pest that makes it to New Zealand.”

>Steve Gilbert, MPI Director Border Clearance Services says traditional border biosecurity dogs are not suitable to act in the incursion role, as they are trained to sniff out food and could be distracted by food odours when working outside.

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hummingbird_mywill t1_jdz362t wrote

What country though? Marijuana isn’t illegal in a bunch of countries and the dogs aren’t trained on it.

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Blazerer t1_jdzzot7 wrote

You do realise that, in your story, he must have already had the drugs on him when he boarded? In the US? And he had drugs in his pocket?

Besides the fact that whatever your target destination might have been might not have laws against marijuana, the story does not make any kind of sense when accounting for someone who supposedly smuggled marijuana in his pocket through US customs...when flying.

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al_pacappuchino t1_je07uhf wrote

US? No dude. My coworker had the thing on him the hole way from start to finish. It was a flight from Stockholm to Paris. Don’t be so americentric.

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arbivark t1_je0xd0u wrote

I once accidentally smuggled weed into Paris. Had a roach in my wallet.

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EdgeOfWetness t1_je13fc3 wrote

You're writing in English. How was he supposed to know your itinerary?

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al_pacappuchino t1_je16twq wrote

So English defaults to the us, even if the majority of people on here from all over use it to communicate? Men du kanske föredrar att jag skriver på svenska för att visa var jag kommer ifrån. Problemet med det är sångröster inte så många.

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EdgeOfWetness t1_je1g374 wrote

> So English defaults to the us, even if the majority of people on here from all over use it to communicate?

In the absence of any other information about location, is it that outrageous a guess?

I don't think poster was being americentric, but patiently just saying "No, actually I was speaking of a flight between Stockholm and Paris" would have been kindly informative and helpful, without the "stupid Americans, think everything is about you" comment.

But as always you're free to be as triggered as you wish here.

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hershdiggity t1_je1r2l8 wrote

It's not an outrageous guess. However, it wasn't a guess, it was an assumption. And that's a pretty outrageous assumption.

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ExistingPosition5742 t1_je23lk4 wrote

I've taken a small amount of cocaine on a US flight twice. Only cause I didn't realize I had it, but yeah went through no problem.

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