In 2009, Spanish police at Barcelona’s airport stopped a man arriving from Chile with what looked like a normal plaster cast on his leg.

It was not normal.

Authorities said the cast itself had been molded with cocaine mixed into the material. Even stranger, the man’s leg was actually broken, which made the disguise harder to dismiss at first glance.

Police reportedly became suspicious and tested the cast, then found more cocaine hidden in his luggage. In total, the seizure was several kilograms of the drug.

The bizarre part is the commitment: most smugglers try to hide contraband inside objects. This case involved turning the medical object into the contraband.

It was less “get well soon” and more “get arrested immediately.”