Here Today... Gone to Mali: January 2008

This is True®

by Randy Cassingham

Fat Head II
David Cox, 34, checked his baggage and settled in to wait to be boarded for a flight from Sydney, Australia, to Melbourne. As he waited he “heard a little kid say, ‘There’s a guy with a moose head,’ but I didn’t even think to look,” he said. But after several minutes he saw it too: a baggage handler was wearing a big costume camel’s head — the same one Cox had checked in his luggage. “The only question mark here is how it got from my bag onto his head.” The timing of the incident was perfect for Schapelle Corby, 27, who at that very time was on trial in Indonesia on charges of smuggling drugs in her suitcase. Her defense: the drugs aren’t hers, but rather must have been slipped into her luggage in Sydney after she checked in for her flight. Four kilos of cannabis were discovered when she arrived in Bali, and if convicted she faces a death sentence. (Sydney Morning Herald) ...One hopes they at least check the bags for camel fingerprints.
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