Posted on 01/04/2005 8:40:30 PM PST by srm913
Smugglers stitch heroin inside dogs' stomachs BOGOTA (Colombia) - Police discovered six dogs with bags of heroin stitched into their stomachs during a raid on Tuesday on a farmhouse in north-west Colombia, authorities said.
An anonymous phone caller reported to authorities that drug traffickers were using the farmhouse on the outskirts of Medellin, Colombia's second-largest city, to produce heroin bound for the United States and Europe, police said.
Investigators initially found seven plastic bags containing liquid heroin, surgical equipment and six Rottweilers and Labradors with scars on their bellies, police said in a statement. The suspected traffickers had already fled.
After performing x-rays on the dogs, police identified 10 more bags filled with heroin surgically implanted in the animals' abdomens. Veterinarians tried to remove the bags of heroin, but three of the animals died, said Medellin police spokesman Gabriel Salazar.
'Today, criminals have shown they are ready to commit acts of extreme cruelty to make easy money,' the police statement said.
Last year, police at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport found 21 canisters of cocaine stitched into the stomachs of two Labradors who had come off a flight from Colombia.
Colombia is the world's largest exporter of cocaine.
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I'm not pleased and I'm far from being an activist.
These people are bastards.
>>>I don't think PETA will be very pleased.
I don't think PETA will be very pleased that they were caught.
PETA is one of the largest organizers of 'Save a Sato'. Which imports dogs (stray) from third world countries to stock the shelves of shelters.
These drug smugglers deserve to be hung.
That same thing has happened with human drug smugglers before, too. I recall one case in which a woman died because a cocaine-filled condom in her stomach ruptured.
Yuck.
I vote that they should be fed to hungry Rottweilers.
Amen to that - sometimes I see a look in my Mickey's pound-puppy eyes that says "I'm so glad you saved me from my former life", and a part of me is glad I don't know what she means.
What breed are your two dogs?
I like that idea!
Poetic justice, don'tcha know :)
It isn't an issue of being pro-drugs; it's an issue of being suspicious--even hateful--of vast government boondoggles designed to tweak and perfect society. We're correctly scornful of government attempts to "fix" poverty or healthcare. Our support of a war fought largely against non-violent citizens for the quixotic goal of curing the nation's drug problem involves an invidious and dangerous distinction.
The 20th century is replete with examples of why all-powerful governments are dangerous: they eventually use that power against their own citizens. Pity we haven't learned that lesson.
Both are rescues.
Well criminals aka terrorists aka pc term: "Insurgents" have been planting explosives in dead people and dead animals and apparently attempting to smuggle grenades in live people so now its drugs in dog's stomachs....yep, and so it goes...
Thanks for the ping!
PETA is one of the largest organizers of 'Save a Sato'. Which imports
dogs (stray) from third world countries to stock the shelves of
shelters.
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I had forgotten about this peta project.
At the time you called it to my attention, I wondered why and gave some thought to the fact that they might be laughing at us over the open borders.
But I did not think of dope.
It is no surprise that we have lots of new diseases in America, not when the dope has been moved about in dead bodies and live ones......
Thank you for this ping.
It shows some imagination, twisted, cruel and sick though it be. What cleverer way to hide drugs from drug sniffing dogs, than in another dog.
BUMP!!!!
Multiple income streams.
They facilitate the dog entry.
The dogs are mules that aren't detected by bomb sniffing dogs.
The ones that survive got to the shelters to be adopted from $50 - $250 dollars a pop.
The ones that don't survive are made a statistic to show inflated numbers of dogs dying in shelters.
And....this one is odd yet....still need more information....
But I've seen this coming up in more and more areas from more than one source now. This is an older article, I have seen more recent ones. Just the first link I grabbed.
http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=3727
How Dead Pets, Bad Brains, and Free Speech Landed Me in Amarillo
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Sitting next to us that Labor Day afternoon in Hagerstown's Municipal Stadium were two guys who said they were truck drivers for the local rendering plant, where, they explained, ingredients for dry pet food are made partly from dead pets they pick up from the local chapter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).
We were at once aghast, amused, and skeptical. "No, really, it's true," they said blandly, sensing our doubts. "We pick up dead pets from the SPCA and take them to the plant. The plant cooks up the carcasses and other things to make stuff that goes into pet food. Honest."
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