Talk:Mule (smuggling)

Muling Money - Money Laundering
There is a lot of talk in fiction about illegally moving cash out a country by using a lot of mules with each mule carrying a legal sum of cash for customs declaration. In other words, the individual mules are not breaking the law. If this occurs in reality it would be an interesting item to add since this article seems to focus only on muling drugs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.31.184.166 (talk) 19:05, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Materials
What are they using to contain whatever they're smuggling? Condoms and seran wrap?
 * It says so in the article. Format (talk) 17:46, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

General comment
This article seems to concentrate nearly exclusively on body packing. My understanding is that a lot of drug mules do not body pack. I was hoping to find out more about what they do: their methods, where and how often they get caught, etc., but I will have to research this elsewhere. For example, I was watching a show on the ID channel and there was a claim that 42% of worldwide cocaine traffic is intercepted, mostly in South and Central America. InsultComicDog (talk) 18:48, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Body packing
According to the references already shown in this article and to the definition for Body Packing in the 2018 edition of MeSH (Medical Subject Heading), to be published later this year, the concealing of drugs (and sometimes other items) is performed WITHIN the gastrointestinal tract or other body orifice, and not OUTSIDE the body. For that matter, I have changed this word in the article. Swallowing is, thus, one kind of body packing. --Arthur A Correa Treuherz (talk) 15:46, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

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How to...
''Oil-based laxatives should never be used, as they can weaken the latex of condoms and cause packets to rupture. Emetics like syrup of ipecac, enemas, and endoscopic retrieval all carry a risk of packet rupture and should not be used.''
 * This is sounding like a guidebook: 'How to Equip Mules'. Valetude (talk) 14:42, 20 September 2018 (UTC)