just take delivery of a couple of boxes ...

[Taro Toporific]

Hmmmmmmm. This sounds like a variation on a theme...see the thread Mo' FG than us.

Scientist gets probation in Clinic espionage case
05/29/03 / Plain Dealer
It seemed like a simple favor for an old friend, a chance to repay the kindnesses that Dr. Takashi Okamoto had shown over the years.
Would Hiroaki Serizawa take delivery of a couple of boxes of research samples? Store them for a few weeks? It was just for safekeeping, while Okamoto sorted out an employment mess with his bosses at the Cleveland Clinic. No big deal.

[cstaylor]

What an idiot. I would have flushed the entire batch and claimed ignorance.