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LEMON JUICE KING

I was joking with the guy. I'm always joking you know, that's my biggest problem. Always joking. The guy let me go inside the plane, the engine was already on . . . and then the door opens again, two officers come and look . . . then they say, 'That's him,' then, 'You follow us, let's go.' I follow them to a small room, I take in my backpack, the other US$28,000 I had inside my professional book [containing photos and his CV]. He asked me, 'You have more money?' I say, 'I have.'

– Marco

Marco had US$38,000, but no Australian dollars. On the advice of his Sydney buyer, he'd spent days traipsing around Kings Cross, carrying plastic shopping bags stuffed with Aussie dollars to change at banks and money changers. So legally, the cash didn't belong to Australia. It worked.

After 45 minutes, they ask many things, you know, and I start joking, joking, joking. I say to the officer, 'You can say the money is from drugs, you can say whatever you want, but this money belongs to America and not to you, man.' I say, 'Man, you have to kill me to take my money. You have to shoot me. If you want to take my money, I make a big problem here . . . I call my embassy. This money don't belong to you.' It's already 45 minutes, people waiting in the flight. I say, 'What do you want?' And the officer says to me, 'Next time I get you.' And then I say to him, 'Okay, I see you next time, bye-bye.'

– Marco

Aside from traversing the globe with his glider worth its weight in cocaine, Marco spent time instructing students and also flying ultra-gliders above Rio's beaches with advertisements for companies like McDonald's, Coca-Cola and Pepsi. It wasn't until his late twenties that he first flew to Bali after a close friend urged him to come. He was quickly lured by the lifestyle the

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