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Reply Wed 10 Feb, 2010 10:16 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/10/texas.marijuana.jesus/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

(CNN0 -- A marijuana bust along the U.S.-Mexico border revealed 30 pounds of the drug stuffed into framed pictures of Jesus Christ, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said Wednesday.

"This is not the first time we have seen smugglers attempt to use religious figures and articles of faith to further their criminal enterprise," said William Molaski, port director of the agency's office in El Paso, Texas, in a statement.

"What some might find offensive or sacrilegious has unfortunately become a standard operating procedure for drug smugglers. This would include using religious symbols, children and senior citizens in their attempts to defeat the CBP inspection process."

Authorities said a 22-year-old woman in a Jeep from Juarez, Mexico, told federal border patrol officers that she had nothing to declare besides the framed art. The officers checked out the vehicle with Cesar, a federal drug-sniffing dog, who alerted them to three framed pictures of Jesus in the vehicle.

The officers pulled the backing of the pictures and found numerous bundles, authorities said. The woman was arrested.

The bust was one of three marijuana seizures made Tuesday at the El Paso point of entry. Officers said they seized 214 pounds of marijuana in the two other busts.

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ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 10 Feb, 2010 10:24 pm
@Merry Andrew,
I suppose I said this was all silly before, I mean from the US end at any given time. But the whole thing is stupid, a large fabulistic edifice.

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fresco
 
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Reply Thu 11 Feb, 2010 01:48 am
@Merry Andrew,
I'm pondering which is the stronger "drug"...the container or its contents ? Wink
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roger
 
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Reply Thu 11 Feb, 2010 02:26 am
@Merry Andrew,
That works out to ten pounds per framed picture. Must have been fairly thick pictures.
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Ionus
 
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Reply Thu 11 Feb, 2010 02:45 am
@Merry Andrew,
Wait....Jesus was framed ???
The Federales have a dog that sniffs drugs ???
The woman who was arrested had three busts ???

Awww, you guys had me going for a while there....

roger
 
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Reply Thu 11 Feb, 2010 04:09 am
@Ionus,
At least they hadn't hung him yet.
Seed
 
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Reply Thu 11 Feb, 2010 04:30 am
Hey I guess you do what you gotta do. I would have sucked for some tourist who picked it up by mistake.

Kind of "When **** goes horribly wrong" kind of thing. They would never believe you didn't know you had drugs on board.
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Thu 11 Feb, 2010 04:09 pm
@roger,
roger wrote:

At least they hadn't hung him yet.


Jesus was hung???
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Thu 11 Feb, 2010 04:17 pm
@Merry Andrew,
Merry Andrew wrote:

roger wrote:

At least they hadn't hung him yet.


Jesus was hung???

He was a man, wasn't he?
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Seed
 
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Reply Thu 11 Feb, 2010 04:28 pm
@Merry Andrew,
Judas was hung...
roger
 
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Reply Thu 11 Feb, 2010 05:57 pm
@Merry Andrew,
Well, no. Just sounded better in the context of framed pictures.

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dlowan
 
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Reply Thu 11 Feb, 2010 08:59 pm
@Seed,
Seed wrote:

Judas was hung...



Humans be hanged.

Pictures be hung.

Of course, when they are pictures of alleged supernatural beings, ought they not hover?
oolongteasup
 
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Reply Thu 11 Feb, 2010 09:12 pm
@dlowan,
jesus was humongous alas for a short time
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