Original caption from Getty Archives: 10/27/1954-Kimberly, South Africa
All African mine workers are x-rayed before leaving the diamond mines. A trained radiologist like the one in the picture can easily identify even the smallest diamond, which a would be thief might attempt to smuggle out of the mine in his stomach.
Jesus Christ
If a dude is willing to swallow a diamond in order to steal it, maybe just fukken let him have it.
But how will this effect the small mom-and-pop shop diamond mines? Unbelievable