Coffin Jim
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Post by Coffin Jim on Jul 7, 2008 14:06:24 GMT -5
"The most memorable legend I recall is one that my mother told me about 15 years ago [around 1971]. It seems that a friend of hers was on a flight—I believe the departure point was in the States and the destination in Canada. One young couple of hippies boarded with a baby wrapped in a blanket. The woman kept the baby wrapped in the blanket and held it tightly. More than once the stewardess asked if she would like a bottle or some food heated, but the woman refused.
"Over the course of several hours the stewardess became suspicious since the baby did not eat or cry. She notified the authorities, who detained the couple at the airport. The baby, of course, was dead, and had been gutted and stuffed with marijuana." ("Too Good to be True: the Colossal Book of Urban Legends", Brunvard)
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Post by hardcockzombie on Jul 8, 2008 4:31:50 GMT -5
That's awesome. I so want that to be true.
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Post by Coffin Jim on Jul 8, 2008 14:08:39 GMT -5
It just may be.
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Post by Hug_the_Dead on Jul 8, 2008 14:27:38 GMT -5
I love that one.
It's definitely the best urban legend I've heard.
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Post by shaggyrand on Jul 8, 2008 14:37:46 GMT -5
I don't know about it being gutted, but folks have used small children for drug smuggling. I knew a guy who was CBP and he love to talk about the time a group of kids just dropped dead at a border checkpoint when the (I don't remember if it was balloons or condoms... I think balloons) in their stomachs. One dropped at the border and over the course of a half hour four more had, while in route to the hospital.
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Coffin Jim
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Post by Coffin Jim on Jul 8, 2008 15:19:18 GMT -5
I don't know about it being gutted, but folks have used small children for drug smuggling. I knew a guy who was CBP and he love to talk about the time a group of kids just dropped dead at a border checkpoint when the (I don't remember if it was balloons or condoms... I think balloons) in their stomachs. One dropped at the border and over the course of a half hour four more had, while in route to the hospital. Damn; what people won't do to get drugs into the country.
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Post by Matttttttttttt on Jul 9, 2008 15:29:44 GMT -5
I don't know about it being gutted, but folks have used small children for drug smuggling. I knew a guy who was CBP and he love to talk about the time a group of kids just dropped dead at a border checkpoint when the (I don't remember if it was balloons or condoms... I think balloons) in their stomachs. One dropped at the border and over the course of a half hour four more had, while in route to the hospital. Not to put you down man, but that's the great things about urban legends. When somebody tells one, there's always another person who will insist that it's happened to a "friend of a friend." That's the reason they get so big and become so popular. There are so many people who swear this stuff happens.
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Coffin Jim
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Post by Coffin Jim on Jul 9, 2008 17:31:55 GMT -5
I don't know about it being gutted, but folks have used small children for drug smuggling. I knew a guy who was CBP and he love to talk about the time a group of kids just dropped dead at a border checkpoint when the (I don't remember if it was balloons or condoms... I think balloons) in their stomachs. One dropped at the border and over the course of a half hour four more had, while in route to the hospital. Not to put you down man, but that's the great things about urban legends. When somebody tells one, there's always another person who will insist that it's happened to a "friend of a friend." That's the reason they get so big and become so popular. There are so many people who swear this stuff happens. I know a guy whose friend sat on a hypodermic needle at a theater.
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