Shooting Pain

Tirisa Ruiz, 43, attempting to smuggle a gun into Picota prison in Bogota, Colombia, thought she could get it past security if she shoved it deep into her rectum. “Deep” is relative: she had to undergo emergency surgery to remove it from her colon. Meanwhile, authorities at the Bogota airport were suspicious of a woman trying to board a flight when her passport photo showing short hair didn’t match her towering locks. A search found a packet of more than a pound of cocaine glued to her head, under a wig. “It was glued in there so strongly that efforts to remove it by hand were ineffective,” state police said. (Reuters, AP) ...So the poor cops had to resort to removing it by nose.