These are mandatory four-year sentences doled out for possession of any amount of drugs that their new ultra-sensitive sensors can detect. Who cares if they can’t physically see it, right? :rolleyes:
The fact that you can spend years in prison because you accidentally happened to step on a joint that someone else tossed in the street and got a speck of pot invisible to the naked eye caught in the tread your shoe defies any sort of logical comprehension.
I keep wanting to think that this is some sort of joke, but amazingly it is not. That anyone on the face of this planet could consider this to be a good idea is infinitely depressing.
I’m always surprised at how they would think westerners would even bother smuggling drugs when any real addict knows you can simply buy your drug of choice from any pharmacy in Dubai.
Jesus Christ! :eek: Why did you have to point that out? And why did I have to go and read the comments?
Those people are either too stupid to breathe, or they honestly think that they’d deserve every second of prison time that they themselves would receive for committing the unthinkable crime of stepping in the wrong spot in the street on the way to the airport.
Not an apples to apples comparison by any means, but it made me think of this article that I was reading today.
A guy was busted and sentenced to 16 months and and had to forfeit $65,000 for a large indoor growing operation (230 plants), after he had paid a tax bill with $600 cash that smelled so strongly of weed that the County employee who processed the payment contacted the police.
Anyone wanna break out the abacus and calculate the proportional comparison of jail time to volume of weed in both cases?
I think someone at the Daily Mail is having a joke at its readers’ expense. The ‘selection of comments’ in the link is not representative of the more-or-less-random sample I read when I clicked the view all link. Some of the comments even seem quite reasonable, considering this is the Daily Mail.
The fact that there is even one comment like the one I posted above is enough to make my head explode, though. How anyone could not just applaud such an Orwellian government, but actually advocate duplication, is beyond mind-boggling.
Orwell wrote his stuff to be hyperbole, to an extent. But they made it real. And they get accolades.
Oh, I had read through all of the comments when I posted that, and that’s why I was so shocked. Roughly a quarter of the responders were more-or-less supportive of this shockingly extreme idiocy. The next time somebody tells me that Brits are more intelligent than Americans, I think I know where to point them.
Actually, it sounds less like an insane anti-drug policy, & more like an insane anti-godless Western Infidel policy.
Do not assume that laws are fairly enforced by reasonable standards in the Middle East. 2 to 1, the Muslims traveling with this man never got a second glance, only Westerners.
The second I read your comment, without even looking at where the link went, I thought “Must be the Daily Mail”.
Nice to see that they don’t disappoint (except if you want a sensible debate).
neutron star, the Daily Mail is well known as the newspaper of choice for the more, erm, how to put this…right wing bigoted idiot section of British society.
Fortunately, when someone starts a sentence with “According to the Mail” the more sensible of us know to shut off and not bother trying to talk sense to them, saves alot of effort all round.
Wasn’t there some case here in the US some time ago where they vacuumed the inside of some guy’s jacket to gather marijuana residue and convicted him for it? I might have heard about this in the 80’s but if it happened it could have been any time before that. This ring a bell with anybody?
The story is pretty incomplete, how did this guy get pulled aside? Dubai had less security than either the US or Delhi when I was there this summer. They seemed far more interested in getting me and my credit cards in the city than cracking down on one of the palest guys in the country.
