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Someone Tried Smuggling 3 Pounds of Cocaine Inside Her Fake Breasts

Talk about a coke bust.

What do you actually expect me to say on this one?

Look. There are more huge, unsightly tradeoffs that come with long-standing prohibitionist stances in the global drugs game than there are to count. And one of the biggest, and certainly more unsightly of these tradeoffs is that most anyone complicit--and I mean really complicit, not just casually railing mediocre blow with friends every so often--in moving illicit substances, typically from third- and second-worlds up into the noses of the first, will often be game to go to extreme lengths in moving product from point to point along smuggling routes. Mules employ all manner of techniques, from ancient Grecian weaponry (borderland weed catapults) to brute-force body hacks (swallowing 50 small, coke-stuffed party balloons), to get the goods to the end of the line, where a paycheck awaits.

But this. This fucking thing. This is just totally insane, and also really, really sad: Authorities at a Barcelona airport recently apprehended a woman who was packing 3 pounds of cocaine in her boob job. Spanish authorities and border police figured something was up when they "noticed fresh scars and blood-stained gauze on her chest as well as pale patches" beneath the woman's skin, the AP reports.

When asked what was up, the woman, who landed in Spain from Bogota, Colombia, said that yes, she had in fact recently undergone breast augmentation. When officials sent her off to a local hospital, the implants were removed. And then the cocaine spilled forth.

There's no word, yet, on what happened to the white stuff from there. Which is good, because I'm officially done writing about this.

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