Locked Up Abroad season premiere tonight (movies, series, shows, happened)
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Tonight at 9pm central time on the National Geographic channel is the season premiere of Locked Up Abroad, a documentary series about people getting in trouble with the law while traveling. The narrator for each story is the person it actually happened to. Sometimes they're telling their story while still in prison.
This was one of my fav shows to watch when I had cable. The stories are so fascinating because the people that end up trying to smuggle drugs are usually just 'regular' people who want a vacation while making a couple of extra bucks. You can relate to these people as a friend, relative or even you!! The most intriguing part for me has always been just before they get caught. Some of them don't even get caught the first time, and they press their luck by doing it again! Duh! Those are the people that i DON'T relate to.
This is one of the shows that I actually miss seeing by not having cable anymore, which is saying a lot! I'm going to check this thread just to see what the new episodes are like.
My basic bacic plan only gives me the good channels now and then but when I had it I found this fascinating. Its amazing how some realize how utterly stupid they'd been and home, or knowing they'll go home, see themselves actually having some sort of future since they went past stupid.
My two recent favorite episodes involve two hit movies. The first was the real guy from "Midnight Run", the story of the guy who escaped from a Turkish prison. The second was from the movie "Goodfellas". The guy the movie was about could finally tell his story on camera since everyone he sent to prison were finally dead and what happened where the movie left off.
I watched the story of Billy Hayes the other night. Anyone remember the book and movie Midnight Express?
He told the true story and it is quite different from the book and movie. It is still very exciting.
I remember when all this happened and my father said to me "If you ever go to another country DO NOT break the law there." All someone has to do is see a few of these stories to know that it is insane to break the law anywhere but particularly in another country.
I've watched this show for a few years. It really is good.
I watched the story of Billy Hayes the other night. Anyone remember the book and movie Midnight Express?
He told the true story and it is quite different from the book and movie. It is still very exciting.
I remember when all this happened and my father said to me "If you ever go to another country DO NOT break the law there." All someone has to do is see a few of these stories to know that it is insane to break the law anywhere but particularly in another country.
I've watched this show for a few years. It really is good.
Yes, that's the one I was thinking of. While in the Navy a sailor stationed in Naples became friends with a Nigerian businessman. After becoming friends, the businessman said the Italian government wouldn't let him leave because they're racist (the friend was also black). He asked the friend if he would go to Turkey to pick up some goods for him (he delt with curios and figurines). He offered to buy the plane tickets, pay for the hotel, give him spending money to enjoy the trip, and give him more money when he returned with the figurines. Everything was fine until he went to the Turkish airport for the return flight. Drug dogs pegged his package and each figurine was filled with hashish. That was in the 1990s. As far as I know he may still be there because his sentence was life.
Yes, that's the one I was thinking of. While in the Navy a sailor stationed in Naples became friends with a Nigerian businessman. After becoming friends, the businessman said the Italian government wouldn't let him leave because they're racist (the friend was also black). He asked the friend if he would go to Turkey to pick up some goods for him (he delt with curios and figurines). He offered to buy the plane tickets, pay for the hotel, give him spending money to enjoy the trip, and give him more money when he returned with the figurines. Everything was fine until he went to the Turkish airport for the return flight. Drug dogs pegged his package and each figurine was filled with hashish. That was in the 1990s. As far as I know he may still be there because his sentence was life.
Moral to the story. Watch out for Nigerians.
You know what is interesting to me? In so many of these cases someone has been set up by a "friend." When they finally get out of prison they go home. It seems to me that we would hear a bit here and there about the woman or man taking revenge on the one who set him/her up.
Or maybe that doesn't happen. I know from what the folks say about finally being free that they rise above the idea of revenge and are just happy to be alive and free.
I have always wondered if the movie "Brokedown Palace" is a true story. I know they say it is fiction but it rings so true to me. I can really see that happening.
I also enjoy the show. Glad they finally got a new season, tired of watching reruns. I've seen the story about Billy Hayes, love the movie.
These people think they can get away with smuggling, how stupid can they be? Sure, maybe they get away with it once but then they try it again? I feel sorry for the guy tonight, he didn't know there were drugs, and the torture he went through, ugh.
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Those are the people that i DON'T relate to.
