WHAT A COKE HEAD!

Mule gettin’ wiggy with it

Guess powdered wigs are making a comeback.

A Colombian man took the prize for the worst toupee ever when he reportedly was stopped by Spanish police at Barcelona’s international airport while trying to smuggle a half-kilo of cocaine under his oversized wig.

The oddly coiffed drug mule attracted officers’ attention as he arrived on a flight from Bogota, Colombia, because he was acting fidgety and because his hairpiece was of “disproportionate size,” authorities said Tuesday.

The police were so amused by their discovery they dubbed the bust “Operation Toupee.”

“There is no limit to the inventiveness of drug traffickers trying to mock controls,” police said in a statement, which included a photo of the unidentified middle-aged man wearing the bulging wig (above).

Spain is an important European gateway for Colombian cocaine — with drug seizures there sometimes measuring in the tons.

But passengers acting as mules are frequently caught trying to smuggle relatively small amounts of the drug through the country’s airports, including Barcelona’s El Prat airport.

On one occasion, when officers in Barcelona discovered a package of drugs strapped to a Colombian man’s abdomen, he confessed that he had also swallowed 35 condoms filled with the drug.

Spain is the European Union’s sixth-biggest consumer of cocaine. The UK tops the list, followed by the Netherlands, Denmark, France and Ireland, according to the UK’s Guardian newspaper.

This is not the first time people have used wigs for such a purpose. Four years ago, a woman was arrested at Madrid’s airport with 31 ounces of cocaine sewn into her wig, the newspaper reported.

In recent years, authorities also have found cocaine inside breast implants, hollowed-out pineapples, a wheelchair cushion, a plaster cast on a man’s leg and a 42-piece crockery set, according to Agence FrancePresse.