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The Peru Two should have watched this film


This film represented a scenario which happens time after time, where a couple of either totally naive or headstrong young men and women fall for a smooth talking huckster they meet on holiday or while working temporarily in an exotic location and are either unknowingly or knowingly used to transport drugs. They are so filled with the glamor and adventure, and the money/free holiday offered that they cannot see "if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is". If the two British girls who were recently caught carrying drugs in Peru has seen this film they might have thought twice, but perhaps they wouldn't, thinking it can't happen to them. Not only young backpackers and gap year adventurers are being used, but retired couples told they have won a free vacation in foreign parts are being targeted. The moral is that there is no free ride. If a new acquaintance just happens to have a spare ticket for a weekend in Hong Kong or Bangok which he cannot use, run as fast as you can!

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