Jun 01 2008
Cocaine Jesus?
A drug dealer named The Spider is wondering why his Jesus Christ still hasn’t appeared in Dallas. Thanks to an unusual bust by federal agents in Laredo, they’re not going to connect.
Drug traffickers mixed as much as six pounds of the illicit white powder into a paste and used it to make a regal statue of the Christian savior, complete with painted-on flowing hair and a gold cape. Smugglers were likely hoping the statue, which could be worth as much as $30,000 on the streets, would be dismissed by border guards as just another of the hundreds of plaster representations hawked to borderland tourists.
But a dog trained to sniff out drugs confirmed it was anything but another religious memento.
“This seizure shows what extreme measures people will go through to smuggle drugs,” Janice Ayala, second-in-command of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s investigative office in Laredo, said Wednesday.
Read more here.
[From me]
Does this classify as an apparition?
What do you think?
4 responses so far
I’m thankful for drug-sniffing dogs!
I just wish I could train my dog to do something other than sniff other dogs!
What a sick world we live in Kevin…wonder what they will think of next! Don’t answer that. Not sure I want to hear the answer!
M. Steve Heartsill’s last blog post..A Candidate without a Church
It’d probably cost $30,000 to remove the paint…
Francoise,
Great to hear from you again. I miss your insight.
Me too, welcome back!