« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia  (Read 382 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Online rangerrebew

  • TBR Contributor
  • *****
  • Posts: 183,558
American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia
« on: October 07, 2025, 11:59:42 am »
American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia

An American basketball player possibly faces the death penalty or a lengthy prison sentence after being arrested in Indonesia on drug charges. Jarred Shaw, 35, used to play in the Indonesian Basketball League for the Tangerhawks. That was until May, when reports say he received a package in the mail from Thailand containing 132 cannabis gummies, which are not legal in Indonesia, and where some offenders have been sentenced to death by firing squad. Inside Edition Digital’s Mara Montalbano has more.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/american-athlete-arrested-on-cannabis-charges-faces-death-penalty-in-indonesia/vi-AA1NYix9?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=68e536a25d04433ba3df495c84550111&ei=61
Logged
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

Online rangerrebew

  • TBR Contributor
  • *****
  • Posts: 183,558
Re: American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2025, 12:05:24 pm »
When my ship was in the Philippines some 50 years ago, a local was convicted of somewhat the same thing and sentenced to life in prison.  He argued he couldn't spend life in prison because he had a family.  The courts agreed and ordered him hung.  When will these dumb ass*s learn other countries are not the US and due process doesn't exist?
Logged
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

Offline Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 63,908
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2025, 12:14:32 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on October 07, 2025, 12:05:24 pm
When my ship was in the Philippines some 50 years ago, a local was convicted of somewhat the same thing and sentenced to life in prison.  He argued he couldn't spend life in prison because he had a family.  The courts agreed and ordered him hung.  When will these dumb ass*s learn other countries are not the US and due process doesn't exist?
I knew a guy who was working out of Singapore. The laws were very strict, and the penalties harsh. He said you learned what not to do and just didn't do it. Drug running or possession carried a death sentence, and it was often administered on the spot.
Logged
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

Offline rustynail

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5,340
Re: American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2025, 12:18:11 pm »
Drugs are bad.
Logged

Offline Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 63,908
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2025, 12:30:53 pm »
Quote from: rustynail on October 07, 2025, 12:18:11 pm
Drugs are bad.
Yes. Getting caught with them is even worse.
Logged
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

Online Free Vulcan

  • Technical
  • *****
  • Posts: 17,500
  • Gender: Male
  • Ah, the air is so much fresher here...
Re: American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2025, 12:50:11 pm »
I hate punks, I hate people who flout laws, regs and standards for no reason other than to be a rebel without a clue and flip the bird at everything.

But what I really hate are people who go to foreign countries and try to impose their crap on the culture thinking they have some kind of American constitutional rights there, and wonder why they receive harsh consequences for their actions from their legal system.
Logged
The Republic is lost.

Online GtHawk

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15,494
  • Gender: Male
  • Well EXCUSE me!
Re: American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2025, 01:18:16 pm »
Logged

Online GtHawk

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15,494
  • Gender: Male
  • Well EXCUSE me!
Re: American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2025, 01:29:56 pm »
This idiot was playing basketball in Indonesia, I have no doubt he knew that drugs were illegal and what the risks were. He made his decision and now he pays the price. I have no sympathy for him.
Logged

Offline IsailedawayfromFR

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14,708
Re: American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2025, 01:43:41 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on October 07, 2025, 01:29:56 pm
This idiot was playing basketball in Indonesia, I have no doubt he knew that drugs were illegal and what the risks were. He made his decision and now he pays the price. I have no sympathy for him.
I was in Indonesia years ago on a business trip and drove past a police station.

Outside of it was a statue of a man with his hand cutoff.

The warning was clear as day to anybody who looked.
Logged
“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” Thomas Sowell

Offline libertybele

  • Cat Mod
  • *****
  • Posts: 65,787
  • Gender: Female
Re: American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2025, 02:27:50 pm »
Yikes, you would think that being in a foreign country he would have made wiser choices and been on his best behavior.  You would think that he would have been warned NOT to break their laws.
Logged

Online Fishrrman

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15,352
  • Gender: Male
  • Dumbest member of the forum
Re: American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2025, 04:19:44 pm »
bele chimes:
"you would think that being in a foreign country he would have made wiser choices and been on his best behavior.  You would think that he would have been warned NOT to break their laws."

Take a look at the guy in the video.
Why didn't he listen...?  Well, it's kinda obvious.
Logged

Offline Weird Tolkienish Figure

  • Technical
  • *****
  • Posts: 13,607
Re: American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia
« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2025, 04:26:27 pm »
Harsh but... you know, when in Rome.
Logged

Offline Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 63,908
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia
« Reply #12 on: October 07, 2025, 05:51:47 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on October 07, 2025, 12:50:11 pm
I hate punks, I hate people who flout laws, regs and standards for no reason other than to be a rebel without a clue and flip the bird at everything.

But what I really hate are people who go to foreign countries and try to impose their crap on the culture thinking they have some kind of American constitutional rights there, and wonder why they receive harsh consequences for their actions from their legal system.
This often starts in College or even High School where the 'star' athletes get a pass for the stuff they do that can be covered up (and it often is, aggressively so). No surprise that the 'don't you know who I am' kicks in and they think they can do anything they want to regardless of the rules.

I have news for them. Anyone can be replaced.
Logged
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

Offline verga

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8,291
  • Gender: Male
Re: American Athlete Arrested On Cannabis Charges Faces Death Penalty In Indonesia
« Reply #13 on: October 08, 2025, 02:56:06 pm »
Anyone want to kick in a couple of bucks to get Brittany Griner a one way ticket there.
Logged
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
�More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.�-Woody Allen
If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken him completely by surprise.
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »