Michael Whitty, from Liverpool, was nabbed at Manchester Airport after sniffer dogs got a whiff (no pun intended) of his illegal stash which included cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine. The 25-year-old chocolate-filled bloke was stopped by UK Border Force officers as he waited to board his flight to a bender.

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  • @Mr_Blott
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    268 months ago

    Please please PLEASE don’t give the Daily Star clicks and revenue

    They’re shit-stirring, racist, xenophobic, rage-baiting cunts and the fucking bottom of the barrel in journalism

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPM
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      78 months ago

      They’re shit-stirring, racist, xenophobic, rage-baiting cunts and the fucking bottom of the barrel in journalism

      You could say that about most of the tabloid press but it’s a good point, so I’ve switched the link to the Internet Archive and will try and do that when dealing with the gutter press.

      • GreatAlbatross
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        58 months ago

        On UKPol, we have a “reputable source” rule, which is often a good guide. People tend to interpret it as “not the daily mail/star/express/s*n”.
        Though I guess it can be less serious over here. Maybe a “try to find a non-crap source, otherwise archive.is/screenshot.

        Sunday Sport, for example, home of the creme-egg-bum-man:

        • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPM
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          38 months ago

          It was originally in the Liverpool Echo but for an And Finally… I tend to pick the source with the best headline.

          And that Sunday Sport story is a favourite for circulating on WhatsApp at Easter.

    • TWeaK
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      38 months ago

      A decent ad blocking setup should prevent any real revenue.

  • @[email protected]
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    8 months ago

    Michael Whitty was caught with thousands of pounds of cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine after arousing the suspicions of sniffer dogs who took a shine to his backside at Manchester Airport

    This article takes on a whole new level of interest if “pounds” refers to the Imperial unit for weight rather than British currency.

  • @takeda
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    98 months ago

    So is that the reason why Kiner Surprise eggs are illegal in the US?

    • @[email protected]
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      28 months ago

      Are they still? I thought they were legalized a few years ago or so but could be misremembering.

      • @shalafi
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        38 months ago

        Not the “surprise” version with the toy inside the food. The US version has the toy separate.

        If we hadn’t made the “no non-nutrients in food” rule back in '38, imagine how much better evolution would have worked out.

  • @thesporkeffect
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    48 months ago

    This story is really unlikely on the face of it. Either they saw that shit on the x ray machine, or he was acting really weird, or they caught him via social media and used the drug dog as the pretense to stop him.

    Scent trained dogs can only alert on one scent, and most of them are trained for explosives and not illegal pharmaceuticals. They can still be given a signal to alert on someone by their handler and this happens more than you would expect, since the entire point of the dog is to create a pretext.