You will have to forgive the graphic picture but this extraordinary x-ray is a 20-year-old Irish national caught in Brazil after swallowing 72 bags of cocaine.
The man is identified only as P.B.B. and was arrested on Monday at Sao Paolo’s Congonhas airport.
The drugs were estimated to have been worth roughly $200,000.
The position of the police in such cases is “this too shall pass.” He will then stand trial on international drug trafficking charges.
Source: NPR
“The man is identified only as P.B.B.” I’ll bet that stands for Pablo Big Belly
or ‘poisoned beyond belief’
Those little red baggies are all the way up into the lung area. How is that even possible? Is there a doctor here who can explain this?
“The man is identified only as P.B.B.” I’ll bet that stands for Pablo Big Belly.
Thank you Dr edd.
Pass the Ex-Lax, please. Right now!
Gotta love Woosty.
Darby,
Welcome.
“Oh, I just loved Maria Under Grace. Was’t she pregnant and a mule?”
Better than being pregnant by a mule in some places but not in others.
A wee bit of pregnancy and other blarney is our lot in life these daze.
blech blech blech again….idiot….and to create someone this desperate?
shame on us
I live in Ireland and I heard about this site.
Oh, I just loved Maria Under Grace. Was’t she pregnant and a mule?
I am glad I just found this site.
Reminds me of the movie about drug mules, “Maria Full of Grace”.
OMG! I’ve only seen images that skin-crawly in low budget horror movies. That’s playing Russian roulette with 72 bullets in the clip. As others observed, he’s lucky to be alive.
This gives new meaning to gastrointestinal fortitude.
The wee people are forced to do these things, in a manner of speaking, to survive in the plutonomy.
The wee people living in the glens like a boll weevil is becoming the Irish thing everywhere.
I’m trying to let that image go, eniobob… 🙂
anon nurse:
After each OOOOH OOOOH ,the officer says that another 5 to 10.
eniobob,
TMI… even for a nurse… 😉
A drug bust in reverse,Suspect sitting on toilet or whatever they are using and you have an officer in the room and every time a bag drops hey says OOOH OOOH!!
Wow. …a picture’s worth a thousand words… or maybe 1000 grams, as the NPR story notes… Amazing. As BN said, he’s lucky to be alive… maybe… depending on his fate…
(From a nursing perspective, the photos are great… )
Ireland to Brazil flights are not inexpensive….
He’s lucky to be alive.