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EXCLUSIVE: Ecstasy dealer turned comedian tricks police with bizarre new website encouraging drug importers to post all the times they managed to get their illicit shipments into Australia
- Convicted Drug Dealer Turned Comedian Fooled Police With New Website
- Andrew Hamilton joked that there’s enough news about drug busts, not ‘drug profits’
- Satirical website urges people to record details of successful import
A convicted drug dealer turned comedian has duped the police by launching a website that encourages criminals to anonymously detail their successful drug shipments.
Andrew Hamilton, 36, was arrested on charges of commercially supplying magic mushrooms (psilocybin), LSD and MDMA in June 2021 and spent four months in maximum security remand in two New South Wales prisons.
Two years after his release from jail, Mr. Hamilton is taking a new look at the drug business, a satirical one, with a new website, drugwins.com.
Andrew Hamilton, 36, was arrested on charges of commercial supply of magic mushrooms (psilocybin), LSD and MDMA in June 2021 and spent four months in maximum security remand detention.
Two years after his release from jail, Mr. Hamilton is taking a new look at the drug business, a satirical one, with a new website, drugwins.com.
A visit to the page prompts users to ‘anonymously report successful drug imports’.
His ‘ironic’ web page allows anyone to upload the location, year, type of drug and amount of drugs the police failed to intercept.
In a video advertising his website, Mr. Hamilton brazenly boasts that the site is “an encrypted anonymous platform for reporting the successful importation of drugs.”
“When you see news coming out about arrests and drug busts and seizures of large amounts of drugs, I think people always wonder about the timing [criminals] get away with it,’ he told Daily Mail Australia
“I thought if there was an anonymous web portal where people could report the times they got away with murder, it would be pretty fun.”
Convicted drug dealer Andrew Hamilton finds there is too much news about the arrest of drug shipments, so he decided to change that.
His ‘ironic’ web page allows anyone to upload the location, year, type of drug and amount of drugs the police failed to intercept.
“Usually we only hear about the tragic news of a drug bust, so isn’t it about time we heard a story about when the good guys win?”
The former owner of the Brooklyn Crispy pizzeria hopes that the police and the public will see the funny side of the website.
“They probably saw it as idiocy and also clearly a waste of time for them to investigate because they wouldn’t think someone would be foolish enough to use it as a legitimate way to record their exploits.”
“I can’t really see anyone in an Australian police force saying ‘we’d better look into this place’ but I guess stranger things have happened.”
He believes that ‘most Australians will see it as an ap***take’.
“I think a lot of people will see the humor in what I’m trying to do.”
Trolling the criminal justice system has become Hamilton’s business since he was released two years ago.
The poster produced for Mr Hamilton’s upcoming comedy show has a prominent recommendation from NSW Police reading ‘one to watch’.
He has used social media to review prison food and shared prison documents that he says tell inmates the best way to take drugs.
Hamilton shared conflicting views of his brief prison stints, uploading a video explaining the real advice bosses give inmates about safe drug use and sex.
He shared several pages from Parklea’s 2021 Male-Only Prison Inmate Orientation and Induction Handbook, which has a section titled “how to protect yourself.”
The suggestions included are to ‘use condoms for sex’ and not to ‘smoke, swallow, snort or give up drugs’.
“Dropping off” drugs means inserting them into the anus.
Hamilton makes his debut at the upcoming Melbourne International Comedy Festival in April with an aptly named solo show called Jokes About The Time I Went to Prison.
The poster produced for his comedy show has a prominent recommendation from the NSW Police reading ‘one to watch’.