Just saw this reported on the Sydney Morning Herald
Airport bungle gives passenger $10,000 in drugs
http://www.smh.com.au/news/news/airport-gives-passenger-10000-in-drugs/2008/05/27/1211653984557.html
An unsuspecting passenger who flew to Tokyo is carrying one million yen’s worth of cannabis compliments of customs authorities after a bungled exercise involving sniffer dogs.
An officer at Narita International Airport yesterday stuffed 142 grams of the drug into the side pocket of a randomly-selected black suitcase coming off an overseas flight so that the animal could detect it.
Imagine if they were flying somewhere which had the death penalty.
[Added 1/7/08:
Apparently it wasn’t an isolated incident, and they’ve now had a talking to:
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