Chilean Sex Dolls

16 Feb 2011 - Everybody recalls the moving story of the Chilean miners who were trapped for weeks under ground. As time passes, more and more details about their ordeal are becoming known. Human reserves alone were not alone to keep the 33 trapped miners' morale high. To make their ordeal more bearable as they were awaiting rescue, drugs were smuggled down to them in family letters, a new book claims. They also sought a further lift during the 69 days they spent 800m underground by asking for blow-up sex dolls. When this was refused because the doctor in charge feared having to share them would lead to tension and jealousy, the miners had to make do with pin-up posters instead. Nor did the presence of marijuana posted down the communications shaft to them promote camaraderie, the book claims. Miner Samuel Avalos noticed how some miners would sneak away, he suspected to smoke the drug. But he said they never offered to anyone. The book claims that the drugs created more tension than it relieved.