What do you do when you’re driving a truck across the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border and you have three kilos of meth on you? At that point, the only course of action is to reevaluate your life choices, which one man did by tossing the bag of drugs out the window as he drove past. Spoiler alert: it didn’t end so well for him.
On Thursday, a 55-year-old cross-border lorry driver was sentenced to 25 years in jail for for drug trafficking.
A year ago, the irresolute driver threw a bag of methamphetamine (AKA “ice”) from “the lorry’s window onto the pavement” while entering Hong Kong through the Lok Ma Chau Control Point, according to the government.
The apparently regretful suspect was later identified through surveillance camera footage, and subsequently arrested for his aborted/botched fly-by delivery.
The seizure was estimated to have a street value of around HKD860,000, and weighed roughly three kilograms.
Under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, the maximum penalty for drug trafficking is life imprisonment and a fine of HKD5 million.
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