Or should that be UK’s SA Drug Hell?
SAA: powered by weed (allegedly)
As fifteen flight and cabin crew from the daily SAA Jo’burg to Heathrow flight were arrested after 50kg of cannabis was found on board, South African rugby player Matt Stevens, now living and “working” in Bath, UK, failed a drugs test and looks set to be banned from the sport for two years.
Stevens has admitted to taking ”a substance” ”while out with friends” and admits he has a drug problem, although he insists that they were not performance enhancing drugs. Anyone who has been watching his recent performances won’t be surprised by that assertion.
Obviously, they were recreational drugs, and probably imported from Jo’burg.
Which brings us neatly onto the SAA arrests, and I’m pretty sure they’ve got the wrong people. Anyone who has ever flown SAA will testify that they never send baggage to the right place. I’m pretty sure that 50kg of weed was meant to go to Miami or Sydney or Athens.
Perhaps the police in those cities should be looking at the incoming SAA flight crews and see which ones are nervously searching in the galley cupboards and looking confused. There’s your suspects.
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Man in the pub says that there are over 40 SAA crew in locked up in various prisons around the world. sniff.
DW > Sniff? What are they sniffing?
The 4kg of coke customs found. Was 5kg when they left JIA. lol
DW > No wonder they arrived 2 hours early…
So when they say fly SAA they are talking about something totally different????
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I always thought the “Mile High” club was something else
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SAA crew drugs scandal: the snot thickens
Police arrested a female security guard at OR Tambo International Airport on drugs charges, following the detention of 15 South African Airways staff at Heathrow Airport this week, police said on Thursday.
Senior Superintendent Tummi Golding said she will face charges of drug trafficking and violating the Customs Act for allegedly letting drugs leave the country without informing the police of their presence.
“We arrested a security guard last night (Wednesday) at OR Tambo,” said Golding.
“Basically she confessed.”
Golding said police are in the throes of instituting arrests of other people implicated, and are questioning the SAA crew who arrived on the 7am flight from London.
- Sapa
Arrested for not declaring it??
DW > No real surprise there, to be honest. *sigh*