A Colombian man was detained at Barcelona's international airport after half a kilo of cocaine was found hidden under an over-sized toupee, Spanish police said on Tuesday.

Arriving on a flight from Bogota, the man attracted police attention as he looked nervous and had a disproportionately large hairpiece under his hat. They found a package stuck to his head with about 30,000 euros (approx 24 Lakhs) of cocaine.

"There is no limit to the inventiveness of drug traffickers trying to mock controls," said the police statement.

The statement enclosed a photo of a middle-aged man - apparently still wearing the toupee though with his eyes blocked in the image - but gave no more details of his identity.

Over 100 kilos of cocaine were seized by Spanish police at the Barcelona-El Prat airport in 2018.

The Colombian was detained at the end of June.

Detenido en #Barcelona con droga en su peluquín.... ¡¡se le va a caer el pelo!! ‍♂‍♀https://t.co/IUjl9l63Du pic.twitter.com/wLxIBBB9Ff

— Policía Nacional (@policia) July 16, 2019

The bizarre incident caught the eye of the Internet and the netizens had a lot of things to say about it.

What a crack head https://t.co/eu5r4sCX4m

— Jay Ranshaw™ (@JordanRanshaw) July 17, 2019

How NOT to smuggle cocaine https://t.co/smtc3yLdl1

— Leslie Weeter Kaelin (@WeeterKaelin) July 17, 2019

‘Yeah, dont worry mate it looks well natural...’ https://t.co/wsVzehuDOS

— バッカーズ (@DanBucknall) July 16, 2019

Brainstorming some content ideas for today’s show and really want to do a feature called ‘what’s under your wig’! https://t.co/G4CuPsBgJX

— ED JAMES (@edjames_) July 17, 2019

Did this guy not check in the mirror before leaving the house with drugs under his toupee? @gametheorytoday https://t.co/N2Y3YnxZbj

— Annette (@KernowGold) July 16, 2019

How the hell did he think he was going to get away unnoticed https://t.co/0oPfdOonb8

— Tracy Domingo (@BlueNoseTracy) July 16, 2019

(With Reuters inputs)