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A local travel agency has created controversy this morning after they revealed that they’ve been offering narcotics to ordinary Betootanese people looking to book a holiday to South America.
Coleman & Sons Travel, in Betoota’s French Quarter district, stands accused of dealing cocaine to prospective travellers in an effort to cut out the middle man.
The agency’s director, Brett Willis-Coleman, spoke to The Advocate regarding the scandal.
“When a young person comes into our shop front and expresses interest in booking a holiday to South America, we just cut to the chase and offer them drugs,” he admitted.
“Rather than send Aussie dollars overseas, we’re keeping the money local. There’s no point in flying halfway around the world just to enjoy cheap drugs. You can enjoy cheap drugs in Betoota,”
“The only option, historically, for cheap local drug produce was crystal methamphetamine but we’re looking to change that. You don’t have people travelling to Moscow for cheap meth, do you?”
However, local police have expressed their displease with Coleman & Sons, telling The Advocate that selling commercial quantities of cocaine to vulnerable young people is both illegal and immoral.
Detective Sergeant Rick Dalhasse from Betoota Police Police said that South America offers young people so much more than cheap narcotics.
“Patagonia especially is a beautiful place, simply breath-taking,” he said.
“My wife and I travelled through the continent this time last year and had a ball – and we didn’t even do drugs once. What this travel agency is doing is simply reprehensible and somebody should do something about it,”
“But if we close down Coleman’s, we won’t have a brick and mortar travel agency in Betoota, which is a world I don’t want to live in. It’s a Catch-22. Booking holidays online is a bridge too far for a simple desert man such as I.”
More to come.
