Chock full ‘o pills

    Don’t try this at home, kids. A Thai woman attempted to smuggle $50,000 work of ecstacy into Indonesia last week. In her stomach. The 24-year-old woman was stopped at a Bali airport Thursday after offiicials spotted her looking nervous.

    A trip to the hospital found 1,280 pills in the woman’s stomach, according to report from Fox. She faces life imprison or even death. All for $656 promised to her by the Israeli man who asked her to transport the drugs.

     

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