Irish bar owner arrested in Sweden?
Irish bar owner arrested in Sweden?
There's a lot of gossip around town tonight that the owner of a popular Irish bar in Phnom Penh was detained at an airport in Sweden and arrested for trying to carry in 1000-1500 valium tablets. He has been detained in custody without bail. I can't find any online confirmation of this, but the people I spoke to are adamant it's true.
Has anyone heard anything?
I'm told he was traveling to Sweden to accompany another expat home after the latter suffered a stroke recently.
Has anyone heard anything?
I'm told he was traveling to Sweden to accompany another expat home after the latter suffered a stroke recently.
There's a popular Irish bar in Phnom Penh ?
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That would be a generous and noble thing to do. For most expat bar owners, flying to Scandinavia just to help a friend get home would be prohibitively expensive.scobienz wrote:
I'm told he was traveling to Sweden to accompany another expat home after the latter suffered a stroke recently.
I think European immigration officers are asking more questions now, due to the terrorism and refugee stuff going on. I'm not sure of they are asking more questions of other EU citizens.
I could see an immigration officer being suspicious of the story that "helping a friend" was the sole reason for such an expensive trip, which might lead to a search.
I'd start sweating bullets if I were carrying drugs and an immigration officer stopped me and began asking me even routine questions.
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It seems that Sweden has some of the strictest drug laws in Europe too.
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The best drug to take when there is a risk of interrogation is ironically, Valium. Try it Gav next time you are going through LAX, its no sweat.
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The Swedish prisons look nice.Lucky Lucan wrote:It seems that Sweden has some of the strictest drug laws in Europe too.
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In Sweden the police are allowed to do a bloodtest on the spot on anyone they suspect being under the influence of illegal drugs. They arrested Puff Daddy riding as a passenger in a van outside Stockholm not long ago. Apparently he will not be returning to Sweden ever.
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He hid them in his craic.scobienz wrote: a popular Irish bar owner in Phnom Penh was detained at an airport in Sweden and arrested for trying to carry in 1000-1500 valium tablets.
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How much profit can someone make buying 1000 valium pills in Cambodia and reselling them in Europe?
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So the (original?) owner of the Irish Place that no longer does fish and chips, only Irish stew made by a Khmer woman (http://www.khmer440.com/chat_forum/view ... &start=252), is really Swedish? That sounds like a crime in itself.
Oh, and drugs are bad. M'kay.
Oh, and drugs are bad. M'kay.
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Yeah, next up they will probably be allowed to fundle your balls to check that you have a true pair and nothing else going on down there. I stopped over in Stockholm not long ago, the female customs officers were huge, they wanted to strip search me, but luckily the plane was leaving so I got off, to freedom.
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