The Guardia Civil must have been breaking out the farting cushions and party hats after this fruitful bust. They just happened to stop two Moroccan gentleman at a routine checkpoint. Not unnaturally, they appeared to be very nervous – drug runners meeting with Guardia Civil patrols, doesn’t normally end in the exchange of Christmas cards and undying friendship, for some strange reason.

So, there were the aforementioned North African chappies, suitably encased in a Peugot 405, surrounded by a clutter of bored Guardia Civil policemen one morning at 09.30 on kilometre point 317 of the A-92 motorway – which is within the municipality of Dolar. Now if there is one thing that stimulates the curiosity of the average Guardia Civil policeman, it is a young man from North Africa, exhibiting signs of being more jittery than a turkey at Thanksgiving, so they decided to tear the car apart, bless them.

Stuffed behind the lining of the boot was a plastic bag containing thirty marihuana balls – thrilled, the Guardia then found another bag under one of the seats, containing another 14 balls.

Could life get any better for the average Green Meanie? On that morning it certain could because the two Moroccans said the North-African equivalent of, “It’s a fair cop, Guv,” and explained that they also just happened to have a rather large amount of marihuana balls inserted – unsavourily – into their lower intestines.

The Guardia immediately hung them back up the right way and rushed them off to the nearest hospital (in Guadix) for ‘inspection.’ Imagine their surprise when the first man expelled – generously – 37 balls of wrapped marihuana. The policeman looked expectantly a the second gentleman, who was just not being productive, complaining that he was having trouble – wasn’t that an understatement!

So they decided to take our constipated friend to the main hospital in Granada to unload. Selfishly, he took most of the day, before finally expelling no fewer than 50 marihuana balls.

After a round of applause the two were whipped away – finally empty – to the police station to be charged with the illegal possession of 1.4 kilos of mucky marihuana.

(News: Guadix, Granada, Andalucia)