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A friend of a friend wasn't so lucky. Went to Thailand, had some drugs left over, forgot to dump it. Executed.

• Mizza 6y ago
  Woah. Can you elaborate a bit on that? What drugs? How did he get caught? Did his nation try to intervene on his behalf?
  • dehrmann 6y ago
    Yeah, I'm going to call BS. Thailand has executed 3 people since 2004[1]. One was a robbery gone bad. The two in 2009 were drug traffickers with $1M in meth from arrests in 2001[2]. I couldn't find a source, but their names look Thai. Apparently a bunch are waiting to be executed, though. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Thailand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Thailand 2: http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Bangkok,-drug-traffickers-executed-by-lethal-injection-16147.html http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Bangkok,-drug-traffickers-exe...
    • JimDabell 6y ago
      Perhaps I’m wrong but I understood the comment to mean that the person went from Singapore to Thailand, bought drugs there, then forgot to get rid of them before returning to Singapore. So Singapore executed them, not Thailand.
      • dehrmann 6y ago
        Rereading it, that could be what they meant, and the thresholds for cocaine and heroin are low enough for that to happen.
        • lordnacho 6y ago
          This is correct. Pretty banal, just a short trip from Singapore to Thailand to have some fun. Not a drug kingpin. Left some very shocked friends.