High security

While a hot towel might be the perfect mid-flight pick-me-up for most air travellers, one person passing through Japan’s Narita International airport is going to find that flying the friendly skies seems to be a lot more friendly once they get to unpacking their bags. And while police would like nothing more than to talk to that person, it’s not anything that passenger has knowingly done that has perked the law’s interest. Instead, it was the poor judgment of a customs officer who put 142 grams of pot in a random passenger’s bag in an attempt to test the efficiency of the airport’s drug-sniffing canine.

Unfortunately, the dog failed—and then so did the customs officer’s memory, leaving an unknown passenger the proud owner of the pot.

Though using actual passenger luggage in canine training tests is prohibited, the customs official says he was “overconfident that it would work.”

“The dogs have always been able to find it before,” he lamented. When the dog failed to turn up the offending scent, the officer realized he had no recollection of which bag he’d stashed the stash in.

by Scott Saxon