British national and filipina girlfriend arrested selling ecstasy

Ok, in that light I will say you have opened up a possibility, that we can't know one way or the other at this moment. I will say also that it sounds totally plausible in a drug deal for a person not holding any drugs to make the sales pitch and receive the money. Then someone else delivers the drug. In a lot of bad neighborhoods the drug dealers use children. It by design makes things harder to put together. She got money but gave nothing. The cop gets a tablet from someone else who received nothing. Do you see?

I agree the reporting in the Philippines could be better. I'm going off of the "if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, it's probably a duck" as the elements are there. I can't make the instant jump to the GF handed over a pill for money and they instantly went to the foreigner to arrest him on no more than that he was in the room.

 

I can see it as it was a sting. They were expecting to catch the foreigner who was likely their target and they probably had plenty of small evidence suggesting he ran things. I'm thinking along the lines of someone who's probably a bit smarter and would know keep your hands out of the deal not touching the product or money which is what the expendable GF was for. Why avoid most of the deal just to touch the end product himself?

In the end its probably just horrible reporting but as they quoted the "transacted" with Manas (GF) part it jumped out at me.

 

If I buy a house from you in a realtors office and hand you the check, a transaction has occurred even though you haven't handed me a house. When I buy a sausage McMuffin with egg at McDo and pay for it, a transaction has happened even though I have not received my McMuffin yet. I would think you have a better understanding of what a transaction is, being you have a small business.

 

And that's just what is smoked (or sold) by the police. Or so some would say. If more than 1/4th of the population is smoking Shabu and police actually have opportunities to obtain it free, what would you expect to happen? I wish police the world over had to submit to at least a weekly urine test so people could weed out who was who.

 

Yes, it is an epidemic with no end in sight...

 

Most people use mind altering drugs to modify the perspective of reality they live in. The question is why would a Filipino waking up with the prospect of a day without electricity, maybe no water available at times, if it is pumped using electricity, the opportunity of working a temporary job for 6 months at a time with no job growth potential , but with a daily earnings potential of at least two Jolibee meals for a full days work and then want to modify the real perspective of their life? It is more fun in the Philippines..... Maybe the real question should be what is 2/3 of the population doing to cope with life? .... remember life is for people who can not handle the realities of drugs.