You couldn't make this stuff up......
13 July 2007, 07:24 PM
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You couldn't make this stuff up......
So , those two girls arrested in Ghana as they were found at the airport with a few hundred grand worth of Cocaine....this is what they have to say (quoted from BBC site) about it
Is anyone that stupid? No. No one is these days. Think they need to come up with something a bit better than that!
Silly, silly girls
Ghanaian authorities were said to have found the drugs in laptop bags carried by the girls.
Two Ghanaian men apparently paid for the teenagers' accommodation in Accra.
The girls have told police the men gave them the laptop bags.
Yasemin told Channel 4 News on Thursday night they were tricked into carrying drugs to London.
Speaking by telephone from prison in Accra, she said: "There were basically two boys over here who gave us two bags and told us... it was an empty bag.
"We never thought anything bad was inside... and they told us to go to the UK and drop it off to some boy... at the airport."
"It was basically like a set-up. They didn't tell us nothing, we didn't think nothing, because basically we are innocent.
"We don't know nothing about this drugs and stuff."
Two Ghanaian men apparently paid for the teenagers' accommodation in Accra.
The girls have told police the men gave them the laptop bags.
Yasemin told Channel 4 News on Thursday night they were tricked into carrying drugs to London.
Speaking by telephone from prison in Accra, she said: "There were basically two boys over here who gave us two bags and told us... it was an empty bag.
"We never thought anything bad was inside... and they told us to go to the UK and drop it off to some boy... at the airport."
"It was basically like a set-up. They didn't tell us nothing, we didn't think nothing, because basically we are innocent.
"We don't know nothing about this drugs and stuff."
Is anyone that stupid? No. No one is these days. Think they need to come up with something a bit better than that!
Silly, silly girls
13 July 2007, 08:26 PM
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"We don't know nothing about this drugs and stuff."
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14 July 2007, 12:28 AM
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On the news lawyers were saying that they should have been allowed to arrive in the UK, and then been arrested......
So, we pay for their trial, pay for them to be locked up and then pay for their eventual rehabilitation? Even though the crime was committed in Ghana..
So, we pay for their trial, pay for them to be locked up and then pay for their eventual rehabilitation? Even though the crime was committed in Ghana..
14 July 2007, 12:50 AM
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No sympathy from me.
They lied to their parents about being on a school trip, flew to Ghana and apparently got put up by the guys that gave them the drugs. Did they not think to look in the bags? Mind numbingly stupid/risky.
A fool and their freedom are soon parted...
Furthermore, if they were fully aware of what they were doing, they'd say exactly the same as someone who didn't know what they are doing.
Here's hoping the Ghanaian courts throw the book at them. Drug smuggling is unforgivable IMO.
They lied to their parents about being on a school trip, flew to Ghana and apparently got put up by the guys that gave them the drugs. Did they not think to look in the bags? Mind numbingly stupid/risky.
A fool and their freedom are soon parted...
Furthermore, if they were fully aware of what they were doing, they'd say exactly the same as someone who didn't know what they are doing.
Here's hoping the Ghanaian courts throw the book at them. Drug smuggling is unforgivable IMO.
14 July 2007, 09:31 AM
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They must have known what was going on, I mean why did they fly out there in the first place, they must have had somewhere to stay planned before they even left the UK. 
Cracks me up about them and the family wanting a "fair" trial, that's the last thing they need IMO.
Cracks me up about them and the family wanting a "fair" trial, that's the last thing they need IMO.
14 July 2007, 09:45 AM
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I can just imagine the day in court
Judge : "Does the council for defence have anything further to say?"
Defence : "It was basically like a set up. They didn't tell us nothing, we didn't think nothing, because basically we are innocent. We don't know nothing about this drugs and stuff, we don't know nothing."
Love the double negative, "We dont know nothing" = must know something
Judge : "Does the council for defence have anything further to say?"
Defence : "It was basically like a set up. They didn't tell us nothing, we didn't think nothing, because basically we are innocent. We don't know nothing about this drugs and stuff, we don't know nothing."
Love the double negative, "We dont know nothing" = must know something
14 July 2007, 11:26 AM
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When I heard yesterday that their lawyers were contesting the fact that the poor dears were arrested abroad and not here, and complaining that the girls were far away from their families etc. All I could think of was 'tough ****'.
14 July 2007, 11:37 AM
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Same from me - **** all sympathy - Hang 'em out to dry.
Why should I pay MORE tax to get them out of the situation they walked into willingly.
**** em - 20 years in a Ghanain jail cell is just what they need - keeps them off the dole in the UK.
Why should I pay MORE tax to get them out of the situation they walked into willingly.
**** em - 20 years in a Ghanain jail cell is just what they need - keeps them off the dole in the UK.
14 July 2007, 01:57 PM
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Its kept 3O0k of **** off the streets too.
Top job by Ghanian police
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Silly silly silly liitle girls.
Top job by Ghanian police
. Silly silly silly liitle girls.
14 July 2007, 06:27 PM
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Can't disagree with anything posted, BUT:
Anyone care to put much money on them receiving a long sentence?
And if they DO get sent down, anyone care to guess how long before the great British public is clamouring, (with the help of the great British Red-Top Media, of course), for them to do the time in the UK, then for their release because, "they had it so bad over there, poor things."?
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Anyone care to put much money on them receiving a long sentence?
And if they DO get sent down, anyone care to guess how long before the great British public is clamouring, (with the help of the great British Red-Top Media, of course), for them to do the time in the UK, then for their release because, "they had it so bad over there, poor things."?
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15 July 2007, 11:43 AM
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Can't disagree with anything posted, BUT:
Anyone care to put much money on them receiving a long sentence?
And if they DO get sent down, anyone care to guess how long before the great British public is clamouring, (with the help of the great British Red-Top Media, of course), for them to do the time in the UK, then for their release because, "they had it so bad over there, poor things."?
Alcazar
Anyone care to put much money on them receiving a long sentence?
And if they DO get sent down, anyone care to guess how long before the great British public is clamouring, (with the help of the great British Red-Top Media, of course), for them to do the time in the UK, then for their release because, "they had it so bad over there, poor things."?
Alcazar
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15 July 2007, 12:52 PM
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****ing fools, deserve what they get, no one is that stupid these days. I hope the foreign office just leave them to it.
10 years in a ****ty prison being hated by the local criminals and ridden senceless by 'de big boss guard' and his mates - NICE!
edited due to some saddo complaining about swear fliter abuse
10 years in a ****ty prison being hated by the local criminals and ridden senceless by 'de big boss guard' and his mates - NICE!
edited due to some saddo complaining about swear fliter abuse
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15 July 2007, 01:49 PM
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Ok, so I'm a bit late in on this one and have only just read about it 
I can see this two ways:
1) They are very very foolish and naive girls who had no clue that they were being duped the whole way.
2) They knew exactly what is going on and are simply pretending to be very very foolish and naive girls.
Regardless of that fact, we all need to learn life lessons from time to time, and this is their time to learn a very hard lesson. There is a very good reason you are told "do not carry anything for anyone else" at airports and this is the prime example of why you do not want to do that.
Empty laptop case, hmm, yeah, right, and they didn't think that it might have been a tiny bit heavy for an empty case? I would expect them to have been moaning "feckin ell sharon, this empty lappy case is fecking 'eavy, imaging how fecking 'eavy it'd be wif a fecking laptop in it" which should have given them some clue that something was not on the level.
They lied about where they were going and what they were doing, I am pretty sure they knew exactly what was going on. They obviously have not read Ben Elton's "High Society", as it might have given them the clue they are so severely lacking.
I can see this two ways:
1) They are very very foolish and naive girls who had no clue that they were being duped the whole way.
2) They knew exactly what is going on and are simply pretending to be very very foolish and naive girls.
Regardless of that fact, we all need to learn life lessons from time to time, and this is their time to learn a very hard lesson. There is a very good reason you are told "do not carry anything for anyone else" at airports and this is the prime example of why you do not want to do that.
Empty laptop case, hmm, yeah, right, and they didn't think that it might have been a tiny bit heavy for an empty case? I would expect them to have been moaning "feckin ell sharon, this empty lappy case is fecking 'eavy, imaging how fecking 'eavy it'd be wif a fecking laptop in it" which should have given them some clue that something was not on the level.
They lied about where they were going and what they were doing, I am pretty sure they knew exactly what was going on. They obviously have not read Ben Elton's "High Society", as it might have given them the clue they are so severely lacking.
15 July 2007, 05:34 PM
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Sandra Gregory sprang to mind when I read it
Shame they didn't get caught in this part of the world, the current government has just re-instated the death penalty for this sort of thing
Shame they didn't get caught in this part of the world, the current government has just re-instated the death penalty for this sort of thing
15 July 2007, 06:50 PM
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I apologise for bypassing the swear filter, laspe of concentration/reasoning on an busy day
Please complain to the webmaster if you feel that i am out of order, maybe i am...
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15 July 2007, 07:16 PM
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On the subject in question, my opinion is that anyone breaking the law when abroad should expect to be dealt with according to the local legal system. That applies to any offence, not just one as serious as drug smuggling.
On the subject of "Put your toys back in your pram", I haven't thrown any, I am not the one resorting to name calling and abuse.
My post #25 was in response to your edit opining that it is "sad" to expect mods to adhere to the rules they are there to administer.
On the subject of "Put your toys back in your pram", I haven't thrown any, I am not the one resorting to name calling and abuse.
My post #25 was in response to your edit opining that it is "sad" to expect mods to adhere to the rules they are there to administer.