BMTH live in Jakarta 2024

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This time around Ravel gets it right and BMTH (Bring Me The Horizon) are headlining the Nexfest festival in Jakarta which also features Babymetal. In this format there is no seating - which makes for a much more intimate experience - although you do have to arrive really early if you want to pick a spot right up close to the stage.  We arrived about six hours before BMTH were scheduled to start their performance and bought plenty of drinks to stay hydrated in the tropical afternoon heat (mind you, some of those were Iceland vodka mix!) This was a gig I had long been looking forward to - especially after the debacle last year. Not everyone likes BMTH of course. For deathcore fans the band sold out. For metal heads the band is not purist enough. And for the wider mainstream audience, the band is too heavy. You can't please everyone of course but there are few bands in the rock world which can match the sheer emotional velocity of BMTH. To bring metal and even aspects of metalcore t...

Drug mules: to strap or to swallow?

Schapelle Corby ain’t happy.

Her lead lawyer, Hotman Paris Hutapea, said yesterday that the Indonesian island's appeal court had notified him of the decision on Corby’s case, although he had not seen an official document.

"There is a verdict. They reduced her sentence by five years to 15 years," he said.

Mr Hutapea added that 15 years was "not too bad".

WTF! Not too bad?

And can you imagine what a “not too bad” verdict would be for the Bali nine? Probably a bullet in the head rather than a more gruesome method of execution!

What madness. It really beggars belief that young people from a rich country like Australia would put their lives on the line by acting as drug mules. In fact the risk of getting caught is so great that most mules prefer to swallow condoms filled with the drug rather than simply strap the drug onto the body like the Bali nine did. Later on the mules take laxatives to help them crap out the drugs.

So why didn’t the Bali nine swallow the drugs? Well, maybe they had read this story beforehand:

“You were one of a group of men involved in drug smuggling,” Lord Justice Hooper told Joseph Augustine in the Court of Criminal Appeal in London, “and you helped to set up a safe house in St Peter’s Street in Bedford. The purpose of this flat was to allow drug mules from the West Indies to hide out after travelling to Britain, until the drugs they had swallowed had passed through their system.

“In September 2003, you were looking after a drug mule, who had swallowed a kilogram of cocaine before leaving Trinidad. When the £50,000 payload you were expecting did not appear, you and your gang became impatient, and began force-feeding the smuggler with prune juice. You then resorted to what have been termed ‘extreme measures,’ such as inserting a broom handle and a carving knife into his anus, in an attempt to extract the drugs, although these attempts also failed.

“The man later escaped from the flat, and was found by neighbours, crawling in the street with various objects protruding from his anus. The cocaine was subsequently removed from his belly by surgeons in hospital. Police then raided the flat, and found what has been described as ‘a fully greased-up Hoover,’ with which you had tried to suck the drugs out of the mule’s bottom. They also found several electric toasters, which you have admitted were also part of the unsuccessful extraction process, although it remains unclear what use they would have been. You were subsequently convicted of smuggling cocaine at Luton Crown Court, and jailed for five years.

>Courtesy of Private Eye

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