http://www.thingsihateaboutbackpacking.com/?p=1003#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed The joke's on all of us. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:17:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.thingsihateaboutbackpacking.com/?p=1003&cpage=1#comment-264 mike Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:51:14 +0000 http://www.thingsihateaboutbackpacking.com/?p=1003#comment-264 Good to have people fighting for you for a fair trial. There's also the strong possibility he did it. I remember a Canadian English Teacher in Taipei who was selling English textbooks online mailed in from Vancouver, which happened to have spaces cut in the books to hold cocaine. Even though you sign a slip when arriving in Taiwan that says smuggling drugs is punishable by death, he did it. When he got caught after months of investigations, the Canadian media backed him, claiming Taiwan had an incompetant justice system, etc. He went from a life sentence to 15 years I think. Had he been Nigerian, he would've gotten death. Good to have people fighting for you for a fair trial. There’s also the strong possibility he did it. I remember a Canadian English Teacher in Taipei who was selling English textbooks online mailed in from Vancouver, which happened to have spaces cut in the books to hold cocaine. Even though you sign a slip when arriving in Taiwan that says smuggling drugs is punishable by death, he did it. When he got caught after months of investigations, the Canadian media backed him, claiming Taiwan had an incompetant justice system, etc. He went from a life sentence to 15 years I think. Had he been Nigerian, he would’ve gotten death.

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