Drug enforcement officers reeled in a big catch last week at LAX. Kil Jun Lee, 71, of Westlake, CA, was caught trying to smuggle home some fake erectile dysfunction tablets in his luggage on his return from Korea. Sounds unremarkable - old guy goes on vacation, does a little swinging, and brings home some phony boner pills. Except this guy was packing 400,000 tablets. Kind of mind boggling. The haul of fake pharmaceuticals was worth an estimated $700,000.
Just to give you an idea of how much Viagra this is - a photo taken by the U.S. Department of Immigration and Homeland Security shows an enormous plastic bag full of pills that looks to be about the size of a standard pillow case. A ballpoint pen next to the bag gives it scale. And the bag is marked "1 of 5". Over half of the pills were fake Viagra, but he also had some fake Levitra and Cialis.Homeland Security officials asked Lee if the pills were for his own use. Haha - good one, TSA. He reportedly replied that he had a heart condition and if he took all the pills, it would kill him. Lee doesn't sound like a hardened criminal, he sounds like a misguided grandpa who somehow got mixed up in all this. He said he was very sorry and promised that he wouldn't do it again.
OH OK, Grandpa, as long as you don't do it again.
