To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > Travel March 20, 2000 URL: http://www.salon.com/travel/planet/2000/03/20/cocaine Colombian woman caught with cocaine in her unmentionables Smuggler's bra-stuffing scheme will cost her big. - - - - - - - - - - - - By J.A. Getzlaff Early in March, a Colombian woman was caught smuggling cocaine in Bogotá's El Dorado International Airport. That's nothing new, but her method for concealing the drug was rather original -- she had it stuffed into a "false brassiere and underpants," according to Reuters. To really fool security, she also lined her undergarments with "a pink, rubbery substance not unlike human flesh." She probably would have reached her final destination in Europe undetected had it not been for her Dolly Parton-esque curves. They were a little askew, said Colombian police, who began to suspect that all was not what it seemed. Upon questioning and strip-searching the woman, the cops discovered what was underneath her brick-house figure: about 4.4 pounds of cocaine. According to the report, "mules" like this woman are regularly paid to carry drugs abroad, but they usually smuggle them in their digestive systems, which they then "unload" upon reaching their final destinations. salon.com | March 20, 2000   - - - - - - - - - - - - About the writer J.A. Getzlaff's Daily Planet appears every weekday. Do you have a tip or tale for J.A.? Send it to DailyPlanet@salon.com.