If there is one thing I have learned from watching Locked Up Abroad, do not, under any circumstance, accept an all expense paid trip to another country because you are being used as a drug mule. For the new season of Locked Up Abroad we learn three new rules for those dumb enough to voluntarily become drug mules: rule number one is never body pack. The second rule is never body pack. Do I even need to tell you what the third rule is? Guess what the guy in the next week’s episode does. If you said body pack his drugs, give yourself a pat on the back.
But for tonight’s season premiere, it is yet another one of the people who thought they were getting a nice vacation for free. Erik Aude was a struggling actor (he was credited as Musclehead in Dude, Where's My Car?
) working as a personal trainer when a buddy at his gym had a way of making extra money importing leather that would save the sender some sort of tax had he shipped it regularly. And wouldn’t you know it; the suitcase with the leather samples was lined with opium. Oops. Sure Locked Up Abroad has done the unwilling drug mule before, and by estimate accounts it makes up fifty percent of the episodes, but this episode is notable for two reason. This is the first time that I am aware of where the subject actually plays himself in the dramatization parts, keep in mind this guy brags to a customs agents that he was also in 7th Heaven
and Bounce
, which if I am not mistake was a horrible Ben Affleck movie. It is also worth watching because it is the funniest episode ever in the history of Locked Up Abroad because the guy clearly exaggerates his story. Yeah the guy if buff and played a guy named Musclehead once, but I have a hard time believing he went all Jason Statham and single handily took down an entire prison of Pakistanis. But it is entertaining to watch. And why wait until tonight, watch that scene below and tell me if you think it happened the way Erik says it did or he did it just to boost his demo reel.Also this season on Locked Up Abroad there is the previously mentioned body packer (another reason not to do drugs, the more common way of smuggling drugs involves passing balloons full of it through your digestive system, so think of where that comes out of the next time you contact your dealer) who somehow has a bunch of near misses before finally gets busted. We will also meet a smuggler who gets busted in Argentina who swims across to Brazil to escape.
Locked Up Abroad airs Wednesdays at 10:00 on National Geographic Channel. You can also download Locked Up Abroad on iTunes.
This was such a ridiculous episode. Normally, this show does such a good job at actually making the story real ... but this is just some frat boy bragging about how he kicked everyone's ass in the jail, kicked the worst guard in the place's ass, lasted through extreme torture, had all his fingers broken one by one. It was a complete joke. I can't believe in a country like Pakistan they would let some American act like Arnold Shwarzenneger in Commando and beat up hundreds of people. Come on, this guy said he beat people up at least 4 or 5 different times in the story. Typical juicehead braggart. This was so lame, I am starting to put Locked Up Abroad in the category of those fake documentary shows such as Operation Repo and Duck Brothers. They messed up with this one.
ReplyDeleteHahhaa... seriously. I like how he went from villain to hero for getting that guard fired, too. It was absurd. It had every element of a movie. A boring movie, but a movie nonetheless. The only thing that would have made it less believable is if he'd rescued a princess on his way out the door...
DeleteExactly. Notice his perfectly intact teeth and straight nose in the homecoming video. Horrible, Terrible
ReplyDeleteI just watched the episode but it appears to me that there are too many coincidences, such as being beaten up and throwing the prisoner over the ledge, and not being involved in other activities, while in prison. Could someone who has been in Pakistan prisons corroborate this? Nonetheless, I give all credit to Erik for surviving the prison term
ReplyDeleteClearly telling lies ! He said their were 6000 men in that jail and he beat them all and thats after 3 days of torture and previous fight in jail cell . Seems to me he is trying to make himself out a hero when he is really just a drugs smuggler .
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