While one American English teacher is scoring with a hot Korean singer, another was is getting busted in Gangneung for allegedly trying to mail himself pot from the United States. The pot was reportedly hidden in snack bags and a camera sent in a care package sent via a shipping company in LA’s Koreatown. The 39-year-old teacher is denying the charges, claiming his friends in the States sent it to him without his knowledge.
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What a dumb ass!
The guy apparently doesn’t read either my or Mr. Carr’s blog.
I have no sympathy for people who break the laws when not living in their own countries. I would have little him if he got busted back home to for that matter.
As a Canadian, I am all over this like Koreans on rice. Where is the name-calling? Where are the dozens of jokes about loser American dopehead English teachers ruining Korea? Where are the gross generalizations? For that matter, where are the smug LA kyopos with their our-crap-don’t-stink attitude? Pot Kettle Black. Americans get busted for dope all the time in Korea. Face facts.
“Americans get busted for dope all the time in Korea.”
What a stupid statement!
Just how often is that(”all the time”), every minute, everyday, or what? You sound like the Korean TV news and newspapers.
All we can do is try to warn people against the obvious likelihood their clever drug-trafficking trick has been tried before. Personally, instead of postal mailing, I would recommend smugglers fill their rectums full of whatever it is they’re trying to move — even if you’re going to get arrested, at least you could have a little fun first.
검찰에 따르면 D씨는 지난 10월31일 미국 LA 한인타운 내 H 택배 사무실에서 과자봉지와 카메라 배터리 투입구에 대마초 약 10g을 나눠 담은 뒤 과자, 면도기, 초콜릿 등과 함께 상자로 포장해 대한항공 특송화물 편으로 인천공항으로 보낸 뒤 자신의 아내가 강릉에서 수령하게 하는 방법으로 대마초를 밀수입한 혐의다.
D씨는 미국에 있는 친구들이 자신 몰래 과자와 카메라 속에 대마를 넣은 뒤 선물로 준 것이라고 주장하면서 혐의 내용을 강하게 부인하고 있는 것으로 전해졌다.
too much work for his friends to give him a surprise.
is his presumed Korean wife going to face charges, too?
is this guy a Korean American?
will the LA Koreatown agency also get busted from the US cops?
i hope the answer is yes, yes, and yes.
how many people do you know within the US, who are at least 5 states away from you, who decide to sent you weed in the mail?
is it normal for people to sent you weed, when you’re overseas?
he’s addicted to weed, right?
The complexities of local law aside, telling someone he can’t imbibe a substance is like telling him he can’t be a Jehovah’s Witness. Sure, they are both probably detrimental to your sanity, and they don’t really add any money into the coffers of those whose minds are fixed on maintaining whatever it is that the world currently offers, but one shows up at your door as a package and the other wants to give you magazines about a tower.
#4 is retaliating for all the times some non-Canadains have sounded like the Korean media when picking on Canucks for being busted for drugs or something else. It’s quite obvious that he didn’t mean “all the time” literally. How would that be even possible? Canuck or not, I have no sympathy for these people.
#4, Canadians rejoice! American pedo deported recently:
http://joongangdaily.joins.com.....id=2882492
don’t be a Jehovah’s witness.
first, their theological premise is considered renegade and wrong.
2nd, you’ll run into the denial of blood transfusions and blood products. Thus, in certain situations, essentially electing to die of your own will.
they’re a headache.
I’ve always wanted to be considered “renegage and wrong”. It has a rebellious ring to it, doesn’t it? The only problem is wondering who hands out this interesting assessment and do they want money?
you want to be considered wrong by Pat Robertson?
I’m not sure if that’s what you’re looking for in life.
Yes, they want money.
#12,
What do you get when you cross a biker and a Jehovah witness? Someone who knocks at your door every Saturday morning and tells you, “$@#% off!” when you answer the door.
This may be a stupid question, but what if someone actually DID mail some English teacher something without their knowledge? Since I had a pretty nasty falling out with a certain disreputable and corrupt foreign language high school that will not be named, with the principal of said institution saying that “he would make me pay” for humiliating him after quitting after no longer wanting to work at a place that dealt so heavily in bribery and corruption, and I told any parent who asked exactly why I quit (he was spreading the lie that I was asking for more money, instead of quitting over a teacher actually spreading lies IN CLASS that I was a PORNOGRAPHER) – nice school, right? and they’re supposed to be the best of the best – I really feared that something like this could really happen.
If you wanted to get at someone, what’s to keep them from just putting an ounce of pot in an envelope in another country and mailing it to them here?
Would I be responsible for that, or is there some higher level of active evidence required to prove that I’m in fact a perpetrator and not a VICTIM?
I was thinking about just such a scenario, and it’s for this reason I don’t accept packages unless I’m expecting something.
Is foot fetishism a crime in Korea?
“Just how often is that(”all the time”), every minute, everyday, or what?”
Well, off the top of my head: there were 13 of them arrested in Kangnam this summer, this guy in Gangneung, and, well, I forget. But that’s at least one a month on average for 2007. So, yeah, all the time.
Honestly, officer, I don’t know who could have mailed me this box full of feet! Please, you gotta believe me. One of my friends must have sent it as a joke!
Seriously, though, foot fetishism is probably a crime. Everything is a crime in Korea.