I don’t know how you all are spending your Labor Day weekend, but I hope it doesn’t end up like the vacation taken by two young Canadian women who obviously haven’t seen Midnight Express or Brokedown Palace.
Melina Roberge, 22, and Isabelle Lagacé, 28, both from Quebec, embarked on a jealousy-inducing around the world cruise on the luxurious MS Princess. The $15,000 per person, 2-month long trip originated in Southampton, United Kingdom and made stops all over the world, ending up in Sydney. As young women are known to do, the pair chronicled their trip on Instagram. The girls posted pictures from exotic locales including Bermuda, Chile and Peru and one gal even got a tattoo in Tahiti. Yes, they’re idiots, but I am still envious of their travels. Check out some of their adventures.
Unfortunately for the ladies, their trip didn’t just end with a sunburn and a hangover. They were busted after disembarking in Australia when it was discovered that they were carrying 200 pounds of cocaine in their suitcases. That’s about $30 million worth of blow. Another Quebec resident, 63-year-old Andre Jorge Tamine, was also arrested for his role in the smuggling caper. Apparently the Canadian Border Service Agency and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had their eyes on the trio and notified the Australian police. If you’re going to be locked away in a foreign land, you could probably do far worse than Australia. At least they’ll have great stories to tell in prison.
was it worth it, ladies?
I traveled like a gypsy from when I was 22 til I was 26. Europe, Australia, Indonesia. It was magical, beautiful and bohemian. I didn’t have a credit card nor cash and worked in every locale. I had no desire to wear high heels or make up, and we certainly didn’t have social media to live from the outside in. Now I vacation in a less rugged way and have traded dirt floors for nice hotels. I still miss “real” travel. These women have been severely seduced by the prison of luxury and now they are in a whole new set of walls. Sad from beginning to end.
Wow! This sounds like a bad lifetime movie I want to watch tonight.
hahahahahah me too 🙂
Yes! There was one where the woman was detained in Colombia for smuggling and her daughter had to work to get her released. I’m in. I see a screenplay in the works. It could be a mix between this and that bling ring movie.
Ooohhhhh and the girls can be like Charlie’s Angels. Ok I’ll stop now.
Lol! That was my first reaction, too. How fast can Lifetime make a movie.
Wow. Well, orange is the new black, I guess. I’m glad they had fun while it lasted. My travel envy is severe right now.
Shame on them for wearing those hideous sunglasses all the D-listers are hawking on IG. Some things cannot be forgiven…..
Right?! I can also forgive the coke before the sunglasses…
Hahaha. Had to scroll back up to look at their sunglasses which I found fairly inoffensive the first go-round.
Idiots. They dare complain about “people messing up the world”. Look in the mirror, ladies (that is, if they provide mirrors in prison)
That was funny.
Absolutely astounding. Who let’s 200 pounds of coke go with these two? $30M? Wow
Hahaha I find this hilarious and those captions seem sooo perfect now! “Collect memories not things…unless it’s cocaine!”. Would have been great if they snapchatted the arrest!
They remind me of the spoof instagram account where Savior Barbie goes to Africa and takes slumfies.
Yes, they are not receiving sentences, just jail time memories and moments.
Yes, because they obviously care way more about what kind of life they live, the mark they leave on the world, etc. than they do about materials possessions and what money can offer. They need to explain how it is that they care more about the world then we who actually try to live on the straight and narrow. Somehow, they are deeper than we are and care not about extravagance and lifestyle. Ignorance at it’s best!
I’m rarely jealous of criminals, but… Also, is there a website for this cruise? I’d like to look into it. Also, is there a website for sugar daddies? Entirely unrelated, of course. Asking for a friend. 😉 😀
The How to Smuggle Cocaine website pops up right under the How to Find a Sugar Daddy one on Google……. so a friend told me! 😉
Bwahahahahaha. This story made my day!!!
You can get a sugar daddy and then he can send you on a trip which is awesome but you have to deliver his coke and do his jail time while he gets a new piece to start the cycle over again.
At least the prison time will be a windfall for their “moments” collection.
They’re damned lucky they got caught in Australia. A bit further north, and they’d be staring down a firing squad.
I saw this on The Today Show and thought somewhere there’s a movie to be made from this.
I was on a cruise a moth ago and it was fabulous. But I didn’t smuggle any drugs. I love my freedom too much. Though some people did sneak weed on.
I’d be that person sneaking weed onto a cruise.
That can be hazardous if you get caught with any of it off the ship… Dunno about on the ship.
That would be my cousin who taught me to always stay in a room towards the back if your’e into that because the wind blows all the smoke behind the ship.
Who made the decision to let these two idiots be responsible for this much product? Somebody who needed a couple of FALL GUY twats, while an even BIGGER deal goes down in NY.
“Collect moments, not things” is especially hilarious, given the fact that these two were traveling with $30M of blow.
Ah, kids these days…
They weren’t disembarking in Sydney, and they weren’t caught getting off the ship. The Aussies knew about this and brought sniffer dogs onboard, where they found the cocaine packed in suitcases in the cabins. The cruise has continued around the north side of Australia, with several stops before the smugglers were scheduled to disembark in Fremantle, so the thought is that the smugglers were planning to bring the cocaine off a bit at a time in the other Australian ports, where security would presumably have been a bit lighter than in Sydney, which was the first Australian port and where the passengers would have had to clear customs and immigration.
The ship was the Sea Princess, BTW, not the Princess. And some of the Instagram comments are hilarious.
This story blows my mind lol. Somewhere la Lohan is curled up in a corner with the Erte scream face.
“collect moments, not things” as you travel the world at $15 grand a pop along with millions in cocaine lol
They went to Indonesia, how bold! They execute drug smugglers there. Maybe someone did a lifestyle check on the girls after seeing their posts on Instagram. How could these ladies afford such trips?
The part that gets me is that U.S. Homeland Security has the 411 on two Canadian women. According to the story, they weren’t in the U.S. at any point during their trip, so why were they involved?
How stupid can you be? Especially when you try to smuggle drugs in Australia.
Apparently you can make absurd money selling drugs in Australia because of all the trouble involved in getting the stuff down there. Like, 10-20 or more times US street value. They must not do too much coke down there.
Yep – many street drugs in Australia are way more expensive than in North America and Europe just because it’s hard to get them in. So, there’s a higher risk of getting caught but also a chance of making much, much more money. Cocaine use in Australia used to be very low but it has increased in recent years, which shows that international cartels and gangs are targeting the market more.
Lots of coke use in Australia, it’s more expensive here but the rewards are still plenty high enough that despite many getting caught, more than enough gets in. I’ve never known there to be a shortage, in fact bananas were harder to come by after a recent hurricane than coke ever has been.
Lots of coke use in Australia, it’s more expensive here but the rewards are still plenty high enough that despite many getting caught, more than enough gets in. Thats the thing with black markets, there will always, always be people willing to trade in them.
OMG so I’m from Canada and one of the girls looks so much like my cousin in law. Until i read their names I was a little concerned it was her. Wouldn’t put it past her.
Bikers & strippers & coke – oh my! Someone is in a world of hurt for losing all that cocaine to the authorities! Yikes!
How do you even lift your suitcases with 200 pounds of coke in them?
Lulz at the “protection of the traveller” tattoo. Guess it didn’t work.
Unbelievable.
I’m confused. One of them gets a tattoo in French Polynesia, then hashtags it as an Indonesian tattoo? Right. Not the same country. Not by a long a shot.
Idiots.