New meaning to the term "drug bust"

According to the Daily Mail newspaper (London), a 33-year-old woman was charged in December with international drug trafficking, after she was found carrying more than five and a half pounds of cocaine - with an estimated value of £250,000 - that had been molded inside some artificial breast and buttocks inserts ("falsies").

The woman, a model identified only as MFM, was detained by security personnel at Rome's Fiumicino Airport after a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina.  "She tried to distract them with a plunging neckline and tight outfit, but they (security personnel) stopped her for questioning because she was so alluring," Fiumicino Airport Police Chief Antonio DiGreco said.

"Once she was questioned, she actually became quite aggressive and was taken away for more detailed questioning by two female officers," he added.  Authorities began their search of the suspect after she failed to adequately explain the reason behind her trip to Argentina, the newspaper reported.  

That's when the drugs were found hidden in the plastic breast and buttock inserts that were responsible for her curvy shape.

....Talk about a drug bust.

Photo credit:  drugfree.org

OT: Breast implant saves Russian woman from stabbing

Pravda, the famous Russian newspaper, reports an offbeat story: a 40-year old Moscow woman was saved from certain death by her breast implants.

She had been attacked by her former husband, with a knife, after an argument got heated. He apparently tried to stab her in the heart, but the knife got stuck in the middle of her silicone gel breast implant! Interestingly, she had the "gummy bear" style cohesive gel implant (available in Europe, but not here in the USA) - and the implant contents did not leak, but maintained its original shape. According to the surgeons, the knife did not even enter the thorax.

The woman went to her friendly neighborhood plastic surgery clinic again after the fight and had her damaged breast implant replaced with a new one.

Ironically, it was her husband who had suggested the breast enlargement surgery five years earlier. What a crazy world!

OT: Would you give a 7 year old this?

More bizarre parenting, this time from the UK. Plastic-surgery obsessed mom gives daughter a voucher for breast augmentation...but she's only SEVEN.

Here's the story, from the Daily Mail:

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She made the headlines last year when she confessed to teaching her then six-year-old daughter Poppy to pole dance. And now Sarah Burge is back in the spotlight again - for all the wrong reasons. The 50-year-old mother - a self-confessed plastic surgery addict known as The Human Barbie - has boasted that she gave a £6,000 breast enlargement voucher to her daughter for her seventh birthday. Miss Burge, who has spent more than £500,000 on her own surgical enhancements and wants to make her daughter into a glamour model, said Poppy 'squealed with delight' when she was given the voucher.

Appropriate? Sarah Burge has given her daughter a £6,000 boob job voucher for her seventh birthday She said: 'Poppy begged me for a boob job, so I gave her the voucher so she can have it after she's 16, when it's legal. 'If she develops naturally big boobs, she can have something else done with it.' The voucher was part of a £12,000 'exotic pamper party' that Miss Burge organised to mark her daughter's birthday.

As well as the breast enlargement voucher, Miss Burge bought her daughter thousands of pounds worth of gifts, including a £250 computer, a £450 pink Swarovski crystal ring and necklace set and the promise of a £4,000 spa break. The main event though, was the breast enlargement voucher. Poppy says: 'I wanted a new computer, a holiday and a voucher for surgery. When I got it all, it was a dream come true. All my friends were jealous. 'I can't wait to be like Mummy with big boobs. They're pretty.'

Editor's note: Have you heard the term "Age appropriate", Ms. Burge? This is absurd....and all sorts of messed up!

OT: Russian Cat gets plastic surgery ?!!

Here is another one from the "Believe It or Not" Files, courtesy of the Austriantimes website. Sounds like the Russian cat had a blepharoplasty and canthopexy...or would that be a "cat-o-pexy"? Crazy!!

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Fury over cat's plastic surgery

Animal rights activists have criticised a "cruel" cat owner who put her pedigree puss through plastic surgery so she would win pet shows.

Lyuska - a two-year-old British shorthair - has undergone an eye-lift from cosmetic surgeons in Rostov, Russia, to make them more almond shaped.

"There were details about her eyes that kept her out of exhibitions and competitions," owner Olga Boiko said.

Surgeon Alexey Krotov added: "The operation lasted an hour. Under her eyes, we have removed the hair and cut off all unnecessary wrinkles and changed the shape of the eyes. Now Lyuska is a real beauty."

The procedure has horrified animal rights campaigners in Russia.

"This cat has always been beautiful, it is the way nature made her. It is the owner who needs surgery - brain surgery," one activist said.

He added: "It's cruel and unnatural to subject animals to pointless cosmetic surgery just to please their owner."

image: Wikipedia. A "blue" British Shorthair...not Lyuska

OT: Pageant-obsessed mom gives 8 year old daughter Botox

Here is a story that is certainly offbeat - a beauty-pageant obsessed mom is injecting her 8 year old daughter with Botox & fillers (that she buys online) with the hopes of making her a famous star. (link)

According to the story: Kerry, 34, buys botox and fillers online and injects them into her daughter's Britney's forehead, lips and around her eyes, every 3 months.

Kerry says these treatments will guarantee Britney becomes famous as a teenager. She says: "What I am doing for Britney now will help her become a star. I know one day she will be a model, actress or singer, and having these treatments now will ensure she stays looking younger and baby-faced for longer."

"I also want a boob and nose job soon, so that I can be a star", says the 8 year old daughter.

Editors note: This is messed up on so many levels, I barely know where to start. Normal children do not need these treatments. Mom should not be injecting anything into her child. Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome, a psychological disorder, (link) also comes to mind.

Your comments welcome.

Thanks to fellow blogger Tony Youn, MD, for alerting me to this story.

OT: Really, Officer - it's the botox!

This report, from my hometown of Vancouver, Canada, has me wondering if the place has suddenly turned into a northern version of L.A.

Here's the story: a woman was pulled over by the police for a possible D.U.I., as she had been driving only 30 mph on the freeway and had nearly collided with two cars. While she admitted she had been drinking, she couldn't or wouldn't perform a breathalyzer test for the police officer. Her excuse - recent Botox treatments around the mouth made it impossible for her to purse her lips. These had been performed a few weeks earlier in Mexico, where the lady resides part-time.

Naturally, the officer said, "Tell it to the judge" and charged her with refusing to give a breath sample.

On her day in court, the lady was able to produce a letter from her Mexican plastic surgeon attesting to recent Botox treatments around the mouth. The surgeon stated that these may have indeed made it difficult for her to pucker up.

Her charge - refusing to give a breath sample - was dropped. Legal experts everywhere are shaking their heads in amazement - the Botox defense is certainly a "new wrinkle" for trial attorneys! (pardon the pun)

Read the full report here.

Trade your air miles for plastic surgery?

Finnair, Finland’s biggest airline, has an offbeat new idea for frequent flyers: Exchange your air miles for plastic surgery!

According to the airline's website, the cosmetic procedures are performed at the Nordstroem Hospital in Helsinki. All the usual procedures can be obtained with air miles - but it takes one heckuva lot of points! Earning the 3.18 million points for breast augmentation surgery requires 120 round-trip, business-class flights between Helsinki and New York, according to a points table on Finnair’s Web site.

Customers who want to redeem their air miles for cosmetic surgery must first book a 95-euro consultation at the hospital before using loyalty points for the surgery voucher.

This is prime material for late-night comics! What will they think of next?

Miss Plastic Surgery 2009

Here's an offbeat story for you....

This weekend, the Miss Plastic Surgery Hungary 2009 competition is taking place in Budapest. Yes - believe it or not - it's a beauty competition for women, ages 18 to 30, who have had at least one cosmetic surgery procedure under anesthesia, and freely admit it. Liposuction, breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, facelifts - it's all OK in this competition.

And here I thought that cosmetic surgery was the "deep, dark secret" of most pageants.

According to the pageant officials, the contest will "help to show how Hungarian cosmetic surgery techniques have advanced, providing a way for women to look naturally beautiful as well as improving their self-image". So, the quality of the surgical results is apparently as important to the judges as the beauty of the women.

The Miss Plastic Surgery Hungary pageant is open to any woman with a Hungarian residence, regardless of her nationality or birth place. More than 100 women have signed up. The first place finisher receives a new apartment, the runner up drives away in a new car, and the second runner up will win a vacation for two to Kenya.

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Australian MD saves boy's life with household drill

Here's a great story of performing under pressure: A doctor in rural Australia used a household drill to bore into a skull of a young boy with a head injury, to drain a potentially-lethal blood clot. The local hospital did not have neurosurgical tools or a neurosurgeon on site, and the young boy was in trouble.

According to details on the BBC News website, Dr Rob Carson performed the procedure on Nicholas Rossi, 13, after the boy fell off his bike and hit his head. The boy was initially fine, but in the classic pattern of an epidural hematoma, later began slipping into unconsciousness.

The doctor had never attempted the surgery before, and was talked through the operation over the telephone by a neurosurgeon.

The boy's father said the doctor's improvisation had saved his son's life.

Dr Carson told reporters: "It's not a personal achievement, it is just a part of the job."

After the successful procedure, the boy was airlifted to a larger hospital in Melbourne, Australia and released on Tuesday - his 13th birthday.


Well done, Dr. Carson!

The SoCal "Boobie Bandit"

And now, one of those "News of the Weird" stories...

Allegedly, a woman in Huntington Beach, CA, recently used a stolen identity to open a line of credit, which was then used to finance a breast implant exchange and liposuction surgery, worth $12,000. The woman lied to her doctor and the staff of the surgery center about her name and personal information, but when she didn't show up for any of the post-operative appointments, the staff became suspicious.

The shapely criminal might have gotten away with this theft - except for one minor detail. Her old breast implants had a registered tracking number, as many implanted devices do. This was used to track down her true identity...

The woman turned herself into custody last week, one day after the story and her photo were made public on the national news and internet.

No news yet on whether the upcoming trial will be televised, or if the stolen property will be repossessed!