Easy passage
This above all - Khushwant Singh
Source: The Telegraph, Calcutta
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X-Ray machines which can show the contents of a suitcase or any other baggage have enabled custom officials to detect contraband goods and haul up carriers. Apparently, these machines are unable to pierce the massive flesh of human buttocks and cannot detect what is hidden in the rectum. So addicts push up caches of cocaine in their rectum and escape detection. Those who want to smuggle precious stones or other valuable articles do the same. But there are limits to what they can get away with.
The “Funny Old World” column of The Private Eye has an interesting piece on the subject: “Mobile phones are constantly being smuggled into our prisons,” Sorasit Chongcharoen of the Central Correctional Institution for Drug Addicts told a press conference in Bangkok, “and they are usually hidden up someone’s rectal passage. This practice makes it easy for inmates to evade metal detectors, because their body mass prevents our machines from detecting the phones, and prison staff are not allowed to conduct anal searches. During cell inspections some warders order inmates to jump up and down naked, in hopes that their phones will fall out of their backsides. Last week, one inmate who had lodged his mobile in his anus was only found out when the phone rang while he was being searched.”
Thanis Sriyaphan, deputy chief of the Corrections Department, added that “mobile phones are valuable to inmates, who use them to conduct drug deals from their cells, but hiding them in the anus can be dangerous. Recently, we became suspicious about one inmate, who could not sit still. Eventually, he admitted to us that he had been pressurised by other inmates into inserting two mobile phones into his anus. One was removed by hand, but the other could not be removed, because a piece of wire on the plastic bag in which the phone was wrapped had caught on the inner wall of his intestine. The inmate was rushed to hospital, and only prompt surgery saved his life.” (Bangkok Post)
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