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To not feel any sympathy for drug-smuggling women?

592 replies

DarceyBissell · 12/08/2013 17:42

Just that really. Two young women facing 25 years in a Peruvian jail for trying to smuggle 11kg of cocaine. Saw they described as 'vulnerable' in one paper. Hardly. Greedy and stupid though.

OP posts:
Morgause · 12/08/2013 17:43

No sympathy whatsoever from me.

Onesleeptillwembley · 12/08/2013 17:45

Stupid, yes. Vulnerable? No. Absolutely no sympathy.

mynameisslimshady · 12/08/2013 17:46

I agree. These smugglers don't have any regard for the lives they are helping to destroy, yet expect everyone to step in and save them when they get caught.

I hate drugs.

PrincessScrumpy · 12/08/2013 17:46

Nope I'm always very unsympathetic. Just greedy.

2cats2many · 12/08/2013 17:46

You can be greedy and stupid and still be vulnerable.

As one human being to another, I feel sorry for them. Who knows what roads took them to making the greedy and stupid decision to try and carry drugs over the border. They look like beautiful young girls. What a shame they made such a stupid decision.

burberryqueen · 12/08/2013 17:47

no they were stupid

squoosh · 12/08/2013 17:47

They haven't been tried yet.

burberryqueen · 12/08/2013 17:49

well you do have a point there squoosh , we should withhold our judgement really they might have been set up or coerced, we really do not know.

NewAtThisMalarky · 12/08/2013 17:56

If they have done it knowingly and willingly, then I totally agree with you.

If they have been forced into it or are carrying goods concealed by someone else, then I would have absolute sympathy.

Knowing the difference, however, is tricky.

zippey · 12/08/2013 17:56

If found guilty they took a risk and it didn't come off. Who knows what their life was like. People take drugs. There is a demand, always will be. If they were our children we wouldn't be so harsh

Kiriwawa · 12/08/2013 17:57

I didn't think they'd been convicted :hmm:

TabithaStephens · 12/08/2013 17:58

Stupid girls. They have ruined their lives and for what?

burberryqueen · 12/08/2013 17:59

maybe they didn't do it

summerbreezer · 12/08/2013 18:00

Don't know about this case, but a lot of people (particularly in the developing world) are coerced into smuggling drugs. They do it for minimal pay in return for the drug barons protecting their family.

Sentences for 'drugs mules' in the UK used to be extremely harsh - comfortably into double figures.

Last year, the policy was changed. The government recognising that the smugglers are usually bottom of the chain. I think this was a good move.

Itsjustafleshwound · 12/08/2013 18:04

Unbelievably stupid
Vulnerable implies to me that there was an element of ignorance and naivety about them ... I don't buy it

GoodTouchBadTouch · 12/08/2013 18:05

Fucking hell. Of course I feel sorry for them. Ive done some stupid things. I can imagine how they thought it was worth the risk.

I think its a huge price to pay, completely OTT.

Mind you Im all for legalising drugs.

Whothefuckfarted · 12/08/2013 18:08

Who's to say they weren't forced into doing it?

happygirl87 · 12/08/2013 18:11

Don't know about these girls, but the number of drug smugglers who are coerced is shockingly high, and often they are told their children or other family will be harmed if they don't do it. It can be really dangerous too, if a condom full of cocaine bursts inside you you will die, so they are risking their own lives to try to protect their children. So to say you don't feel sympathy for any drug smuggling women, YABU.

StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes · 12/08/2013 18:13

IF they did it then yes silly buggers, if not then heaven help them. Surely everyone knows this kind of shit is seriously NOT worth the risk, especially in a foreign country.

Tailtwister · 12/08/2013 18:13

Stupid and greedy? Definitely.

Do I have sympathy for them? Yes. Their lives are effectively over before they've even started.

TabithaStephens · 12/08/2013 18:14

Neither of these girls had children, they were working in Ibiza, their families are back in Britain. The drugs were in their cases, not in condoms inside them.

TabithaStephens · 12/08/2013 18:15

How much money is worth risking spending 25 years of your life in a South American prison for?

WorraLiberty · 12/08/2013 18:16

I think I'll save my sympathy for the addicts...not those who make a nice little living causing death and misery.

pigletmania · 12/08/2013 18:30

Yanbu at all, they are adults, they knew the consequences

DrHolmes · 12/08/2013 18:35

When i first heard about it I was very unsympathetic. I just thought two idiot girls thinking they'd make a fast buck not thinking there was a chance of being caught.
But now, after reading an online paper, someone had commented and made a fair point that the girls probably wouldn't have had the funds to buy the drugs in the first place and were probably co-erced into doing it. Maybe they were threatened. Who knows?
At the moment I feel a bit sorry for them even if they were being stupid but if it turns out they did buy it and planned it all then they get all that's coming to them.