Close calls you've had

[losthippy]

2005 I flew into Oz for annual holidays having traveled first through a number of countries

 

[psytaco]

2005 I flew into Oz for annual holidays having traveled first through a number of countries

LOL................................................And????????

 

[losthippy]

Fuck... Lost it for a bit, or something :/ Anyway, in 2005 I unwittingly carried a finger-joint sized piece of hash in my suitcase through a dozen airports, ferry terminals and rail hubs around the EU and the middle east before landing back in Oz. It wasn't a significant amount but enough to have gotten me noticed or a whole lot worse had it been detected.

 

[pisspotnrock]

as bad as it may sound, theres way too many to recall, write down.. wayyyy toooo manyyyy.... and I'm only 19 lol

gotta love the lazy/'open minded' young police force of western australia

 

[spacejunk]

Fuck... Lost it for a bit, or something :/ Anyway, in 2005 I unwittingly carried a finger-joint sized piece of hash in my suitcase through a dozen airports, ferry terminals and rail hubs around the EU and the middle east before landing back in Oz. It wasn't a significant amount but enough to have gotten me noticed or a whole lot worse had it been detected.

i sometimes wonder if people unwittingly carrying drugs are more likely to get through undetected than those that are carrying?
it would certainly help you play it cool - but as a drug user i find i get nervous going through airports and other checkpoints even when i know i'm definitely not carrying.

 

[pisspotnrock]

i sometimes wonder if people unwittingly carrying drugs are more likely to get through undetected than those that are carrying?

I deffinatly think that would be the case.. through my knowledge, customs officers/security/whatever you wanna call em tend to always go off body language of passengers (ofcourse with the exception of countries visited prior to whatever airport they're at) and without the knowledge of what your carrying, there's no body language

 

[RaveOne]

i sometimes wonder if people unwittingly carrying drugs are more likely to get through undetected than those that are carrying?
it would certainly help you play it cool - but as a drug user i find i get nervous going through airports and other checkpoints even when i know i'm definitely not carrying.

So true, i canttell you how many times i checked my pants pockets and suitcase for empty bags and left over drugs before i went to thailand. And even tho i was sure i had nothing in there i was still shitting myself in the airports haha

 

[psytaco]

but as a drug user i find i get nervous going through airports and other checkpoints even when i know i'm definitely not carrying.

Yeah I get this too. Worst time was in Singapore. I was flying singapore airlines and when the plane touched down they said 'have good trip in singapore. please remember that possession or trafficking of drugs is punishable by the death sentence.' Had nothing on me what so ever, but it still got the heart racing.

Other time was going into the US from Colombia. I made sure I washed all my clothes incase of spilt coke, and even bought a new wallet and wiped down all my cards. I swear I got patted down and frisked 6 times whilst in Colombia, and they searched everything. Once I got to the united states where I expected the most searching and interrogation, they asked me where I had come from and the dude didn't even raise an eyebrow and let me on through. Weird...

 

[jmasta]

Got pulled over on the way to bonnaroo this summer not gonna go into how he illeagley searched us as it is irrelevant but I had $4500, 1/4lb (approx 112g) of cannabis, 50 grams of bk-mdma, a millagram scale, 3 grams of 2c-x (100mg or so of e, i, t2, p etc), 3g JWH-xxx, 5000 empty capsules, 10 grams 4-MEC, 2 grams of mdpv. However since I was holding everything (quantity wise) I was prepared had it in he bottom of a hiking back pack strapped to the top of the car. Cop searched the inside first where my cash was and found a half a mg of xanax and a pipe in a friends backpack, and another friend had 2 rolls (that had previously tested positive for mdmd), a bag of some 4 subbed tryptamine, a gram of 4-fa, and 10 grams of 4-mec luckily after the cop found this (as well as literally a cigarette roach (rollie) he claimed was a jay) he gave up on searching (and my fears of going to jail died down) he stopped searching tested the 4-mec, rolls, and 4 subbed tryptamine (we told him what was legal and what wasn't) and after testing everything and the only thing testing positive was the mdma pills he wrote one friend a ticket for posession of parifinalia and posession of a schedule 3 substance, another friend with posession of marijuana and posession of mdma and let us go.

Another good one!
Got pulled over @ 3am about 15 minutes away from my medical marijuana grow and I had just got done harvesting so I had approx 3lbs of freshly cut bud in my trunk (proly 10+ lbs wet). Realize as I am getting pulled over I don't have my wallet on me (which contains my license, proof of insurance and my medical marijuana card). First thing the cop asks is where the weed is I politely tell him my medicine is in the trunk and he shines his light to my hood latch and says pop it so I do and it opens my hood not my trunk (making me look even more stoned than I was) then I say my trunk must be popped with my key and I hand him my key they open the trunk and the younger cop (assistant) gets excited I explain I have no wallet on me which contains my medical card, drivers license, and insurance. The car was registered to my mother at the time and I give him every bit of info i can (ie my full name, address, dob, mothers full name address date of birth) he comes back and says everything checked out and that he can arrest me (for possessing marijuana without my card, driving without my license) and can tow my car for failing to provide proof of insurance. Luckily he lectures me about how lucky my generation is for having laxed marijuana laws and tells me to get about my night and that if he pulls me over again and I don't have my card he WILL arrest me.

 

[footscrazy]

i sometimes wonder if people unwittingly carrying drugs are more likely to get through undetected than those that are carrying?

I accidentally took about a gram of weed in my back pocket of my jeans from NZ to Aus once. I'd completely forgotten it was there and only realised when I put my hands in my back pockets walking out of Melbourne airport.

One time I borrowed my brothers overnight bag for a messy trip up to Qld, and unknowingly left multiple baggies in it. They only had scrapings of stuff left in them (heroin and meth though), but he found them just before he was going to take that same bag for his trip to Thailand. My heart just dropped when he told me that, and I was so thankful he found them before he left - if he'd gotten into trouble in Thailand I would have been absolutely shattered.

I deffinatly think that would be the case.. through my knowledge, customs officers/security/whatever you wanna call em tend to always go off body language of passengers (ofcourse with the exception of countries visited prior to whatever airport they're at) and without the knowledge of what your carrying, there's no body language

I think this has to be a big factor too. When I was travelling from the Netherlands to London recently, the bus I was on was picked to be searched at the French border, then I was picked out of the whole bus load of passengers to be properly searched! I don't know why, but I definitely think they were going off my body language when they searched my bag, because the guy gave it a really basic search, I could've easily gotten away with hiding something there. I wasn't nervous at all, just impatient because the busload of passengers was waiting on me. Still glad I decided to eat all those Amsterdam pills I'd got the night before though, because at one point I had considered taking them with me.

 

[psytaco]

yeah I think customs also has a profile of who may constitute a drug trafficker and it varies by country. whilst in Latin America it seemed that it was mainly the Latins who were taken into the other room for the strip search/x ray. They were also the one's whose bags were searched more thoroughly. They never seemed to both much with me, even with random bus stops in the middle of nowhere. I guess gringos are less likely to be smuggling than the Latins.

In Asia they didn't seem to give a shit about anyone. Customs at the airport (arrivals) didn't seem to have anyone manning it. Kind of contradictory to their tough on drugs stance.

 

[Mr Blonde]

I went to Schoolies for some stupid reason... I'm not really a social person, I don't like being around drunk idiots and at that stage I still had anxiety problems but I was talked into it by my best friend (RIP) who wanted me to come with him and another guy, I think to help pay for the hotel room. Anyway, I set us up with good quality, MDMA containing pills and LSD. The second night or something there was this all ages nightclub thing they really wanted to go to, and me and my best friend had taken the MDMA and were pretty messed up in a good way. There are two security guards, I go to one and the others are going to the other to show our schoolie's passes. The security guy takes one look at me, and with a badass look on his face tells me there is no way I am getting in. Somewhat disappointed, I walk away and try to call my friend to let him know I can't get in. Won't pick up his phone. I try a couple more times, then try our other friend who was there. He asks where I am, then he runs up and tells me that just past the security guards were a bunch of cops that we didn't see because we were high as fuck. The cops took one look at him and asked him if he had stuff on him, it was just in his pocket and they were charging him with possession.

That fucked up our night. He managed to get drug diversion when the court appearance came up, one of the cops recommended it. If that security guard hadn't turned me away, I could have been charged as well though I didn't have my re-dose in an obvious place like my pocket.

 

[Beat Narrative]

i was in delhi and had about 700 mgs of tramadol and almost an entire bottle of whiskey, was getting involutary spasms, my poor gf didn't know whether to take me to an indian hospital or if i would be better off just in our hotel

we stayed in the hotel but that was the closest that i know of that i have come to overdosing on anything

i knew the limit of tramadol is supposed to be 400mgs a day but i had been taking 500mgs a day everyday for months, the moral to the story is i am a selfish asshole for putting my gf through that and i am an idiot for taking risk taking behaviour in a foreign country when i was well educated in the risks
now that i have written this out i realise how fucking dumb i can be

 

[Busty St Clare]

I spent a lovely day jet skiing around Magnetic Island (just off Townsville) many years ago, tripping balls when I was stopped for a random breath Test. They knew something was a miss but I only blew the 1 beer I had an earlier so they let us go.

One flight back from Auckland I fed my little daughter a punnet of blueberries just before we boarded, so right on cue, just as we landed she loaded her nappy with the biggest, bluest poo you could imagine. My wife looked at me and made me change her nappy just as we reached customs and I stuffed the plastic bag full of shit into my bag and proceeded through. Of course the little beagle decides to sit at my feet and the rent a dobber jumps on me very excited. I am racking my brain trying to work out what i have on me, an old baggie? A bit of stray kiff? Then I suddenly realised and lofted the bag high into the air, "It's just a bag of blue shit!!".

The customs dude cracked up and led us straight through the gates and we were in a cab with 2 minutes.

 

[psytaco]

^ good story.

and here I was thinking it was going to be about you almost dropping some cheese and spilling some wine off the balcony of your river side apartment.

 

[popeyes mate]

My boyfriend gave my cpr and saved me, he gave it twice as after the first time he brought me back, I died again, and with his cpr again, I stayed alive.

Your lucky to have such a great boyfriend footscrazy...Unfortunatly a friend of mine didnt, she had been using fentanyl on a pretty regular basis, to the point she used while her parents were visiting. I know little about this drug however I believe she had it in a powder form and would make a paste with water and inhale the fumes it created. Inhaling was the last thing she remembered before waking up in hospital.

Her mum later told her that the boyfriend walked into her room, saw her on the floor and just walked back out to the parents and calmly anounced she was dead!

 

[popeyes mate]

Nothing serious here either.

Was offered a huge line of ketamine once and headed into a club to meet some friends. One of the girls asked if Id had anything and I told her what Id had. She then tells me the same guy gave a group of them days earlier the same thing, and she and another friend were so fucked up they felt like their organs were shutting down, they couldnt move and and just layed on a bed for hrs until they were ok. As Id only racked up a short time earlier my anxiety certainly increased, however I just reasured myself I was a good 25kgs heavier than both of them and Id be fine, which I was and had a great night.

Close call with the cops was when I had a gram on me while out for a few drinks one night. Id had quite a few lines and when I purchased my last drink ordered a pint when I really wanted just a middie. Planned on only having half.. but went ahhhh should be ok.

On the way home I ran an ORANGE light and was instantly pulled over by an unmarked car. Blew over (they didnt say how much) and when I pulled out my licence it hit me what ELSE I had in my purse. They said to grab what I needed and took me into the station. My purse was quickly locked away in my glovebox! On the ride in I had to make a conscious effort to SHUT THE FUCK UP as I was chatting away to the rather cute coppers.

So I had a little sookie la la moment, then blew... .04898988998888 blah blah. They then drove me back to my car and off I went!

 

[popeyes mate]

Oh and when I was 17..fresh from the county to the big city, I was with a much older chick who had just shot up speed about an hour earlie, and had everything on her. She had no licence and warrents. She'd only had 1 or 2 beers when she was pulled over for an RBT at a petrol servo. She missed the entry point so went in the wrong way. The cop just came up to the window, asked if she'd been drinking and she said yes just 1, and he then asked her to reverse and leave as she was in the way!

I had visions of being taken in and stripped searched!

Still, my ability to bounce back from such a self-esteem ruining event in life has made me so much more wiser and stronger, physically

That was the first post Ive read of yours so dont know what you have been saying, but hell I have had some hell funny / fucking embarracing shit happen to me and I really like what you said ^here. Good for you. I guess as long as we are wiser from these things thats all thats important.

 

[Busty St Clare]

^ good story.

and here I was thinking it was going to be about you almost dropping some cheese and spilling some wine off the balcony of your river side apartment.

Now that you ask, one time I was mixing mojito's and managed to slice under my thumb nail with the lip of the cocktail shaker. Made a mess of the white buttoned up shirt I was wearing but I soaked it in nappysan and I was able to rescue it.

 

[yagecero]

^LOL@Busty and Psytaco

And your close call had you through the airport and into a cab faster than the rest of the people there, even with all that (literal) shit you were carrying. What a terrible scenario to find oneself in

Sounds truly frightening :D