Thread: Things you've had confiscated

Originally Posted by wjblaney

continued on to Karachi.

You could probably have got a native chum to purchase your choice of opiates there at a market. All this, I assume prior to the radical Moslem agenda.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

Originally Posted by Latindancer

What on earth were you going to do with them ? Sell em at the markets ?

No. I was renting rooms in a large house owned by 2 elderly alcoholic lunatic women who both smoked like chimneys and constantly stole each and every lighter their beady eyes alight upon.
Every few weeks they/we would get pissed round the pool and I'd empty their huge handbags proving my point.

So, bring in 50 and I might actually get the use of 'em for a week or three.
As it turned out I didn't.
Harridans.

I didn't expect this. The truth of things really is stranger than we expect.

Originally Posted by Munted

All this, I assume prior to the radical Moslem agenda.

At the time (1973), the Afghanis were the most beautiful, gracious and generous people I had ever met. They were definitely devout. It really blew my mind: 5 times a day, they would stop what they were doing, roll out the prayer mat (or not), face West (Mecca) and pray in unison. They were in no way offended or angered at my standing around and observing (I wasn't the first hippie on the hippie highway). Crossing the border by bus from Iran to Afghanistan was exactly like going back in time 1000 years: tents, goats, blinding desert heat in the summer 7,000 meter peaks covered with glaciers all year round. Old men with beautiful gorgeous white beards and beautiful turbans insisting that you come and sit in their tent on their beautiful oriental rugs and drink tea. The women were uncovered and god damn gorgeous. Then the one overriding feeling I felt during the whole time I was in Pakistan was fear for my life.

Originally Posted by Munted

You could probably have got a native chum to purchase your choice of opiates there at a market.

My memory is very vague now but I believe my bud intended to smuggle and he had managed to get rid of everything but the cigarettes 'cuz we thought they weren't that smart.