Drug Bust

[Jazzy]

If you are a female reading this, please switch places with the husband​

You are on holiday in Bali with your 18 year old son and wife. You have been there for a week and are ready to head home. All three of you are at the airport getting ready to board your plane, when an armed officer comes around with a sniffer dog. You have all your bags on a trolley, and the dog sniffs at both your wife and your bag, and passes over it, however when he gets to your sons bag, he begins to get a bit more active.



You look over at your son and he’s looking a little nervous. You know he’s smoked a little marijuana in his time, but generally, he’s a good kid, and you certainly didn’t think he’d actually be stupid enough to bring it back on the plane with him. At first you feel angry that he would do such a thing and start planning your responsibility lecture, but then you realize that you are in Bali, and they have a zero tolerance policy on drugs, meaning your son could be jailed for life, or worse, executed, if he does have some illicit materials in his bag.



You look at your wife and realize she has come to the same conclusion and has gone pale with fear.



The armed officer accompanying the dog is beginning to look more stern with every sniff the dog takes and looks directly at you and asks you to open to the bag.



You do, and as the officer begins to take things out of the bag, you see to your horror that there is a small quantity of marijuana stashed in with your sons belongings.



The officer looks at you and asks “Who’s bag is this?”



You realize you have to answer, but the answer won’t be easy. You see your wife in the corner of your eye, and she is about to step forward and claim it as her own; what do you say?

 

[DrLeftover]

An 18 year old is old enough to take responsibility for their own actions.



And besides, there will most likely be fingerprints on the package inside that will tell who packed it.



however, most likely, under Indonesian law as I understand it, all three will end up in prison for some time.

 

[Jazzy]

An 18 year old is old enough to take responsibility for their own actions.

Even if [background=rgb(251, 253, 254)]your son could be jailed for life, or worse, executed, if he does have some illicit materials in his bag?[/background]

 

[Bluezone777]

Even if [background=rgb(251, 253, 254)]your son could be jailed for life, or worse, executed, if he does have some illicit materials in his bag?[/background]

Shouldn't he have thought about that before taking them with him? I might not agree with the way they deal with things but you agree to abide by their laws while you are in their country. If you don't like their laws then don't go there.



The scenario paints the parents as being oblivious as to the nature of their child and the things he gets up into and the child as being both foolish and lacking in structure and character built by good parenting. It doesn't look like we will have any winners here no matter what any of them does in my view.



You will either have a dead or imprisoned for life son while the parents spend the rest of their days suffering depression over what happened and what went wrong that led them there or you will have a dead or imprisoned for life mother while a father and son have to live with both the life they told and the price paid for telling it along with the drug use. As said before, neither choice leads to a win situation only a lose situation.

 

[DrLeftover]

I have a daughter who has made some poor decisions in her life.



If I could have prevented most of it, I would have. But since she has been 16 more or less, my best suggestions, and, for that matter, everybody else's, have been ignored.



Only recently, and she is now 22, has she come to realize that maybe things would have been less interesting had she at least listened.



The situation would appear to be parallel to the scenario above.

 

[Sinon]

His drugs, his responsibility. I'm not taking the fall for somebody's stupidity, blood relation or not.