h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A bizarre one from the US

"My sister's co-worker had a sister in Texas, who with her husband was planning a weekend trip across the border for a shopping spree. At the last minute their baby sitter cancelled, so they were stuck taking their two-year old son with them.

They had been across the border for about an hour when the baby got free and ran around the corner. The mother went chasing, but the boy had disappeared. The mother found a police officer who told her to go to the gate and wait. Not really understanding the instructions, she did as she was instructed.

About 45 minutes later, a man approached the border carrying the boy. The mother ran to him grateful that he had been found. When the man realized it was the boy's mother, he dropped the boy and ran himself. The police were waiting for him and got him. The boy, dead, in the 45 minutes he was missing, was cut open, ALL of his insides removed and his body cavity stuffed with COCAINE. The man was going to carry him across the border as if he were asleep. A two year old boy, dead, discarded as if he were a piece of trash for somebody's cocaine."

Wow...very macabre. If you can verify that this story is completely untrue, consider it included.

It is very, very untrue. None of the parties ever existed and it's only basis in fact is the vague reference to the papier mache horses stuffed with sweeties used in latin american festivities (can't remember what they're called), which is probably where the idez came from. But no, no-one has tried to smuggle coke over the border in a recently eviscerated toddler.

Aye, carumba, eet's called a pinata.

I really didn't need the confirmation, because the story held up rather poorly to scrutiny after a second read. After all, even a freshly killed and stuffed toddler smells pretty bad.

hmmm, fresh meat is just slightly obvious, and after all there are rather easier ways of smuggling drugs!