Oops!

The police at Narita airport, Japan, are rather red-faced at the moment. According to the BBC:

An unwitting passenger arriving at Japan's Narita airport has received 142g of cannabis after a customs test went awry, officials say.

A customs officer hid a package of the banned substance in a side pocket of a randomly chosen suitcase in order to test airport security.

Sniffer dogs failed to detect the cannabis and the officer could not remember which bag he had put it in.

Anyone finding the package has been asked to contact customs officials.

If it was the right sort of passenger, he's probably praising Japanese hospitality to the skies right now! I can just picture him on the phone to his buddies back home, talking through a haze of smoke, saying dreamily, "Yeah, man . . . like . . . far out!"

Only problem is, he'd better not get caught with it. Japanese law is very strict against the possession of cannabis - and what cop's going to believe that he found the stuff in his suitcase after going through Customs?



Peter