Day: April 14, 2004

http://homepage.mac.com/kathodavid/PhotoAlbum12.html

So get this: The Feds nail this guy who’s attempting to smuggle drugs by having swallowed fifty one condoms filled with heroin (he’s what’s traditionally referred to as a “mule.”) He’s brought to Mary Immaculate hospital where laxatives enable him to pass forty four of them. But levels of opiates in his urine prompt doctors to be concerned that one or more of the condoms has ruptured, so they operate and remove the remaining seven. It turns out they weren’t ruptured, but hey, they didn’t feel like standing around and risk just letting the guy die, no matter how scummy he is.

Claiming that he hadn’t given them permission to perform the potentially life-saving operation, and that he “still has nightmares” about it, this transporter of illegal drugs is now suing the hospital for $5 million. This after already having tried, and failed, to sue the Feds for $25 million.

Here’s hoping the judge gives the mule a swift kick in the ášš.

PAD