Of Shipwrecked Heroin and Floating Bullets.

Thursday, May 27, 2004
Heroin bullets washed ashore.
A vast amount of heroin bullets gets washed onto the beach of Villingilli. The bullets were neatly packed into water proof jackets. A massive police operation is underway to remove these nasty items from the friendly beach's of Villingilli. Some people had already run away with some of the items. The police thinks they had recovered nearly Rf 1.4 million worth of heroin. It is believed to be a smuggling operation gone really bad.

posted by faraz @ 5/27/2004 05:14:57 AM check out his blog n3m6.blogspot.com

The above news was posted by my colleague Faraz here. This news didnt come as a shock to me rather but cracked me up big time. I mean " Heroine Bullets washed ashore on a sandy beach"??! An obvious smuggling racket gone stale! With the cops wading knee deep on the surrounding Villingili lagoon whilst the rest of the "Heroin Hunters" dove, occasionaly coming up with handful of "ship wrecked bullets" worth 1.4 million or more is a scene more fitting for a Mario Puzo Movie. Now, whoever can keep the correct statistics of floating bullets?? :o this sounds more like a scene from a Rushdie paperback! One wonders whether bullets will pop up days after all this furor is over and done with! Next thing you know they will announce that the sea is off-limits to the public. Concerned parents would not allow their kids to go swimming incase they come home high on floating bullets!:S Last heard, that most of the local dudes got away with the "loot" before the cops came crashing in on the scene and took over. Sad to say, Not that we have a lack of heroin supply in the Maldives. :S

This surely gonna give parents the jeepers creepers and the regime occasional bouts of insomnia! I seriously think that Robinson Crusoe would give anything to be shipwrecked on Villingili right now. goodness! I can imagine the festive atmosphere in Villingili right now! Its really ironic that of all places the bullets chose to land in Villingili and not in Male'. Floating bullets or not we Maldivians never cease to surprise eachother with these sorta atrocities. This really cracks me up *guffaws*