It just wasn't meant toupee: Bloke nicked at Barcelona Airport with €30k of blow under wig

Hats off to Spanish customs at Barcelona Airport who spotted a Baldrick-level attempt to smuggle cocaine into the Catalan capital. Pictures are worth at least a thousand words so we'll just leave this here. Detenido en #Barcelona con droga en su peluquín.... ¡¡se le va a caer el pelo!! 🧓👮‍♂👴🤷‍♀https://t.co/IUjl9l63Du pic. …

[chivo243]

Caption Contest

Dope Head!

He gives a new meaning to coke head?

He'd have been better off borrowing my coat!

[Mark 85]

Re: Caption Contest

He didn't seem to look like a pointy-haired boss.

[macjules]

Re: Caption Contest

Or perhaps,

"Colombian cocaine smuggler pushes Trump off 'Worst Wig of the Week' #1 position"

[Prst. V.Jeltz]

Re: Caption Contest

The cocaine in Spain falls mainly on the brain ....

[lowjik]

Re: Caption Contest

El Chapeau?

[Khaptain]

Discreet, very discreet

Cmon, you would have to have done at least a couple of grams of Colombian pure in order to believe that you would pass customs with a lump like that on your head....

I don't know what's worse, getting caught and going to jail or that damned picture being spread all the media...

Made me laugh at least.

[baud]

Re: Discreet, very discreet

Or perhaps while all the cops were laughing at this guy, three other mule were quietly carrying their packages through customs?

[DJO]

Re: Discreet, very discreet

My thoughts too, sacrifice a know nothing idiot while that pushchair with a toddler or 2 in it has every pipe stuffed full (or a similar ruse).

This was just too obvious to be anything other than a decoy.

[Kubla Cant]

Re: Discreet, very discreet

Toddlers with pipes would be a bit conspicuous.

[the spectacularly refined chap]

Re: Discreet, very discreet

I can see some psychological reasoning behind it, in that people will generally try to avoid embarrassing someone else. A truly awful toupee enhances this natural tendency to not want to address it directly.

It's like excuses for being late into work, the best ones make you look like an imbecile. Saying your car broke down or the train was late only gets you so much credibility. If you say "I crapped myself coming in, I had to go home again and clean myself up" no one will ever question it.

[Inventor of the Marmite Laser]

'Ello, ello, ello-petia wot have we got 'ere then?

Oh the folly-cle of it! What a hare-brained idea! Forget sham poo - he's certainly in the real poo now.

[Daedalus]

Too good toupee true

Chances are that 10 kg of the stuff slid by while the cops were laughing themselves silly.

[Mayday]

Re: Too good toupee true

Yep.

Here you go mate, business class (ie up the front and off first so they see you first) trip a few $k while Pablo and I sit in row 30 and stroll on by,.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Too good toupee true

Nah most of it enters through Dutch and Belgian ports and is real organised crime, tonnes daily, chains that go straight to the top, this is just jokes, I'm surprised even people try this sort of thing I imagine it's just some kind of distraction.

[Charlie Clark]

Re: Too good toupee true

Small time, get rich quick schemes. It's the same with weapons: why risk a custodial sentence when a government-brokered deal guarantees immunity.

[Anonymous Coward]

Gove?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8FGtOHBHLs

[Mike Moyle]

There's definitely hell toupee!

(Yeah... It was a cheap joke but it was all I could afford!)

[Anonymous Coward]

worse smuggling attempt than the balloon going up (to) Uranus?

[Dan 55]

"The police Twitter account [...] warned him his hair would fall out."

Literally it's a comment about the precariousness of his toupee... but it's also a saying which means something like "he's in a load of trouble".

[Anonymous Coward]

There's worse wigs out there...

It's still more convincing than that poor cat stapled to the top of the POTUS...

[WolfFan]

Re: There's worse wigs out there...

That’s not a cat, that’s a dead muskrat.

[c1ue]

Hats off to that would-be smuggler

Although it looks like his head is being humped by a brunette tribble.

[Winkypop]

But Officer

It's not cocaine it's just a bag on dandruff...

[JimmyPage]

I guess a lot of regulars are on holiday ?

This far in, and no one thought of "hairline crack" ?

[Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse]

If he's that shit...

I've only skim read the report, but if he's that shit a smuggler does it not beg the question as to how he managed to get it through South American customs in the first place? I guess they just don't care...

[Andytug]

Clearly he misheard the instructions...

….which were to hide it in syrup.....

[Ima Ballsy]

Priceless !!!

Reading this article and UP pops and ad for .....wait for it .... Vogue Wigs ... ROFLMAO !!!

[James Dore]

The cocaine in Spain is smuggled mainly on the brain?

[charlieboywoof]

"Hes from Barcelona"

[Ken Shabby]

The Customs Officer is from Barcelona?

[Carpet Deal 'em]

Clearly

His handlers shouldn't have told their mule to use his head when he asked how to slip by customs..