Zoe Briggs: #Mules are fools!

Ever heard of the term DRUG MULE?

A drug mule is somebody who smuggles drugs across the border.

Sorry to hit you with a bang, however I read an article on the daily mail this evening about Billy Reid who is the father to one of the drug mules who were convicted of carrying £1.5m worth of cocaine hidden in their luggages last year, which they attempted to smuggle out of Peru. I'm very intrigued by people like this who think they can get away with smuggling drugs in the hope that they will become millionaires at the end of it sounds so absurd.

However some people actually get away with it and some even go to the extreme and implant these drugs in their stomachs or swallow it and later excrete it out and try and locate it within their faeces.
Some have it strapped to their bodies, in their stomach, in luggage, in shoe soles, in shampoo bottles, and any other way they can think of to conceal contraband while trying to beat the system. Some mules hide the drugs in condoms that have been surgically implanted under the skin! In many airports x-ray machines have become a common sight with people's stomachs being x-rayed as they go through. Pregnant women cannot be subjected to an x-ray so they make great mules. There have been reports of people smuggling drugs inside the gutted bodies of dead human babies, dead puppies, even live snakes!
Yuck right?

My question for the people who eventually get caught:

Weren't you scared of the consequences?
Didn't you think of your families back home how it would affect them if you got caught?
Having a criminal record and being bankrupt by the time you finish your sentence?
Being labelled as a drug trafficker?
Your Name being printed in newspapers and being exposed?

Now back to Melissa Reid and her friend Michaella McCollum these are young girls who went on holiday and admitted an attempt of trafficking 11kg of the class A drug after being caught at Lima's international airport last year.

Their court confession came after six weeks of protesting their innocence after telling the Daily Mirror they had been threatened with their lives if they did not carry out the run for a South American cartel.

Question: Would you rather die at the hands of the cartel or risk your life and end being bars and basically be a living dead?

Hmmmmmm?....

These girls we are talking about, both of them are around my age which is roughly around 21/22. How sad is it to think that they will be spending 6 years and 8 months of their lives behind bars in despicable conditions.

Billy Reid, the father of Melissa said in the article on daily mail that Melissa has already missed key events such as her brother's wedding and other events similar to this. Melissa's dad said: "Events such as Christmas are non-existent for us. There'll be no celebrations in our house, there'll be no Christmas tree until we get her back home.''

This kind of situation not only affects the smuggler but also affects the family as they feel like they are facing the jail sentence too.

This could be avoided but for the stupidity and anxiety and anticipation of a false hope that the world of drugs promised.

Some of you reading it will be saying what I think too "well they should have thought of the consequences before ever attempting to smuggle drugs''.

You'll never know until you are faced with this kind of situation I'm praying you don't ever get faced with it. But if any of you are ever thinking of doing this just know it's not worth it and you certainly wouldn't want to be living a life behind bars..

Think of the consequences before getting involved with drugs of any kind. Even if it promises you a life of millions at the end of it. Think about your sanity and your freedom those are two things millions cannot buy!