Charlies Says

[Bunk]

Maybe it was a calculated risk.

They researched the Peruvian legal system and found out you only get 5 years for smuggling. If they got away with it they would make 1 million each. Plenty of people study for more than 5 years and wont earn 1 million in 20 years. Also if they get caught they become celebs and write a book when they get out when they are 28-30 and make a few million.

I'm booking my ticket now!

They won't have the story to write a book. They're not Howard Marks, they're just a couple of silly kids. As MS points out, they took the risk for £8k, not a million. That tells you all you need to know. For some people £8k is all the money in the world.

[psychocandy]

They won't have the story to write a book. They're not Howard Marks, they're just a couple of silly kids. As MS points out, they took the risk for £8k, not a million. That tells you all you need to know. For some people £8k is all the money in the world.

8K to risk spending 10 years in prison. no thanks.

[jmo21]

Actually it was 8K each.

yeah, and..... we won't kill you.....

Why an £8k payment, surely threatening to kill them is enough? shirley?

stupid wee lassies who thought they were big time.

[Old Greg]

8K to risk spending 10 years in prison. no thanks.

If you didn't read the contract before signing it, don't whine about it now.

[proggy]

8K to risk spending 10 years in prison. no thanks.

Yeah bad risk to reward ratio. They must have been forced into it.

[mudskipper]

Yeah bad risk to reward ratio. They must have been forced into it.

They were talked into it. 8K and a free holiday! No, of course you won't get caught, people do it all the time. Here - Luisa - tell them how you've done it 18 times and never got so much as a nod from customs...

Easy money, innit?

[eek]

They were talked into it. 8K and a free holiday! No, of course you won't get caught, people do it all the time. Here - Luisa - tell them how you've done it 18 times and never got so much as a nod from customs...

Easy money, innit?

See my comment above. They need a patsy once in a while and spend an awful lot of time trying to find some foolish enough to be one.

In fact the more I think about the story I posted the more accurate I think it is

[BrilloPad]

Maybe MF' transatlantic job is not real and he just smuggles Charlie. He certainly usually looks like he has something up his bottom.

[mudskipper]

See my comment above. They need a patsy once in a while and spend an awful lot of time trying to find some foolish enough to be one.

In fact the more I think about the story I posted the more accurate I think it is

It's certainly plausible.

[BrilloPad]

And now Phil Collins is involved! Gang run by nephew of Phil Collins recruited UK drug mules accused of trying to smuggle £1.5m of cocaine out of Peru | Mail Online

Gosh I must read the Daily Mail more often.