1. She's way too cute and sexy to rot in a smelly jail
2. Only Shapelle knows if she is truly guilty or not. We are in no place to judge her. Which only leaves judging her on looks. And there I'm swayed by her blue eyes and boobs - lots of swaying there.
3. What sways me to feel for her plight though is, why would anyone, clever or stupid, or a drug smuggler, bother taking dope into Bali? There's just no motive. Next is the fact that her Lawyers ASKED the Police to finger print the bag and they REFUSED! Refused the most common and simpliest evidence test of the last century? That begs the question why refuse? Which in turn suggests they had already carried out this standard test, found none of her prints so refused to provide evidence that weakened their prosecution case. This stinks more than a Bali courthouse to me.
Putting all this aside 20 years in prison for dope. A drug slightly higher up the food chain from whisky is far too harsh for the crime.
I travelled SE Asia as a 20 something twice and indulged in lots of burning of local dried plants. I didn't see myself as a crim then and still don't. We knew the penalties for smuggling were tough and only had enough for our personal use (lovely term that) and never travelled with any (trains/planes stuff). Even then I came very close to doing time in a Thai jail. Try being woken up, have drunk, half stoned, some naked bird beside you and 8 soldiers pointing machine guns at you. Had a barrel about 3 inches from my eye as the Cop/soldier cocked it. Now that was a wake up call. Had to have a few smokes after that to calm the nerves. If they objected why was it for sale on every corner. We came across restaurants that had 'thai sticks 20 baht' printed into the menu.
Personally I think the 8 months she'd done is punishment enough. Comments above about she should have felt the bag heavier and should have locked it are rubbish. I remember a flight from India where all the bags & mine came off the carousel rummaged through, half open, stuff missing - was that the passengers fault and responsibility to never take their eyes of the luggage- not possible.
Anyway if she gets out soon I look forward to the Playboy issue she will no doubt get asked to do.
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