Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/13/smuggler-busted-carrying-fake.html
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Both ingredients in “skin lighteners.”
not sure what came of this.
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I wonder if our first robot wars will be smugglers’ robots versus nationalists’ robots.
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Is that what passes for “baby sized” in Uganda?
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Reminds me of the deeply awful ending to Song of Kali, by Dan Simmons.
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" Pardon me, Madam, your child seems to be missing his head & feet."
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This also happens in the US:
Instead of the more commonly used inorganic mercury this case had skin cream with methyl mercury. I repeat, skin cream with methyl mercury.
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That’s straight up murder. Like the plot of a bad whodunit novel where the murderer slips deadly methyl mercury into a victim’s cosmetics and lets them kill themselves over a couple of months time.
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Better than carrying a real child stuffed with cosmetics I suppose.
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I might understand if it was drugs, or even some kind of woo-woo herbal concoction, but cosmetics? I would not expect people to get so attached to one particular formulation that they’d be willing to pay excessive smuggling fees to obtain it.
…Most people, to be sure.
ETA: Wouldn’t have something to do with the ol’ Red Mercury, would it?
ETA2: If it’s a matter of skin lightening, as per the article @ejeffrey linked to, it takes on a much nastier dimension.
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Best.
Dead Parrot.
Sketch.
Evar.
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Even less realistic than the one in American Sniper.
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Exactly what I was thinking. Also,isn’t a child without a head a bit of a giveaway?
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Holy shit, that’s horrific.
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I would have handled this differently: Simply jam as much contraband as possible into a large jumper, then stick a real baby in there for the masterstroke that’ll get you past customs.
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