Quote:Drug Smuggler Rumbled by Call of Nature

BERLIN (Reuters) - The untimely bowel movements of a man arrested with marijuana at an airport yielded German crime fighters an unexpected haul of 54 condoms containing cocaine, authorities said on Thursday.



\"It's pretty silly to get caught carrying hard drugs because you've got a tiny amount of marijuana on you,\" said a spokeswoman for prison authorities in Berlin.


After police discovered the two grams of marijuana, a check revealed an outstanding international arrest warrant for the 51-year-old man for drug-related offences.


But they were unaware he was carrying a kilogram of cocaine, estimated at 120,000 euros ($152,400).


\"The man had the condoms in his stomach and after a certain period of time his bowels passed them out again. I don't know why he didn't flush them down the toilet, perhaps he needed to keep them,\" the spokeswoman said.


The man hid the excreted condoms in his clothes, where prison authorities later found them.