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The catagory is smuggling, and I think this fits in. |
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The various fluid reservoirs in a car are the first things anyone, looking for contraband, checks. So, dogs might not find it, but someone might. |
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As [tcarson] points out, baked by Peter Fonda in Easy Rider, in 1969. |
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Except that it was in the petrol tank. |
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If the object's transparent (diamonds, anyone?) then put it into water and freeze it. Then hide it somewhere where there's lots of ice and no one will notice it's there. |
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//The various fluid reservoirs in a car are the first things anyone, looking for contraband, checks.// |
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[neelandan]: Just curious, how do you know that? |
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In our country they smuggle liquor (It is not outlawed, just horribly taxed). Frequently there are news of cars caught with stuff in modified fuel tanks. Tankers have also been caught with the stuff in modified compartments. So the guys at the checkpost are obviously alert to such things. |
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James bond film ( in a fuel tanker) |
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It is also common to disolve a cerain Coca based drug in spirits for shipping. |
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Howard Marks - as detailed in his biography, Mr Nice. |
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This is probably the single most well-publicised concealment technique. |
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The coke smugglers are waaay ahead of
you here - they've already figured out
how to integrate cocaine into plastics,
smuggle it within plastic products and
extract it at the far end. |
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The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers once did a thing on famous drug smuggling feats of engineering - I seem to remember some kind of Ganga Oil pipeline wending its way across the Mexican border. |
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Maybe Exxon is just a front. |
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why do you think they made 36.1 billion dollars profit in 2005 |
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Who told you dogs can't smell through water? How would corpse sniffing dogs work from boats then? |
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They can't smell "Goods" though coffee grounds either. Since fluid reservoirs are pretty obvious, why not put it in a bag, put it in another bag with coffee in it, and then next time you happen to be changing your breaks, you'll find a small hollow space down there. Most checkpoints are a little too busy to take the wheels off of all the cars that come through. |
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coffee grounds are an urban legend- they are no problem for dogs |
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I thought this was about skinny dipping. |
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//How would corpse sniffing dogs work from boats then?// |
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They don't, it's all for show. |
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//nobody will ever find it//
me and my associates will pay you a visit soon... |
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It's *I* and my associates...budda-bing. |
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//Dogs can't smell through water// |
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They can smell water though, and corpses usually float if something isn't helping to keep them submerged. |
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//It's *I* and my associates...budda-bing.// |
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If we are going to be pedantic, it's actually "my associates and I" ;-) |
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Oh, and if we are talking about concealing "goods" you would not want to use ziplok bags either, this type of plastic is never completely air tight. Often water can even pass through the plastic if submerged for considerable amounts of time or under pressure. Most sources recommend the use of glass jars or bottles for storage of items that you want to stay completely sealed from both air and water for extended periods. This is certainly true for beer. You can use metal but you have to be careful not to taint your "goods". |
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They would probably look in the fluids if they were suspicious of you hiding something. If you get stopped and a search is about to take place, admit that you have contraband in your trunk and when the authorities go to inspect it and find nothing, accuse them of stealing it. Start yelling, "You bastards took my stuff! Now I gotta explain to the big boss what happened to the $40,000 stash!" or even better, get really upset and yell, "I can't believe this!!! They robbed me blind! I WANNA FILE A POLICE REPORT!"
They will be determined to get rid of you and send you on your way. |
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I suspect that doesn't work, but it does create an amusing image in my head. |
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Coffee grinds do not work. And even if it did, the police would merely have the dogs sniff for coffee also. |
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Anywho, in certain areas where they aren't used to searching fluids in a vehicle, this is all right. And it still works if you get pulled over by a normal cop. |
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Like most hiding ideas it doesn't work for very long. The problem is that when someone comes up with a scheme like this they tell others, many of whom think its a great idea and do the same. |
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Sooner or later someone else either directly tells the police about the scheme (out of greed or more likely spite) or someone else is unlucky and gets caught while a cop is busy pulling their car apart for an entirely unrelated reason ('cos in a lot of places even 'normal' cops are trained how to search a car in great detail). Or the cops really suspect a particular individual is carrying and thoroughly pull the car to bits and find the stash along with a dozen reportable defects to boot. |
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Either way, once discovered, local police intelligence bulletins will make mention of this latest trick and cops being cops they'll just be tripping over themselves to pull over as many cars as possilble, have a poke around and try and bag one. |
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What follows is that either that lots of people get caught or word gets around that the cops know about the water trick and it stops getting used. |
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The odd thing being that what probably gets used instead in the old 'stash it under the seat' method. I guess old habits die hard for some. |
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Not that clever. If the police are really suspicious of you carrying drugs, and in some cases are willing to do a 'cavity search' right on the spot, don't you think they tend to exhaust all other easy places to look BEFORE sticking their hands in your bum? Come on, man. Besides, most automotive fluids have solvents in them that will dissolve plastics and other seals, so most common containers won't work in ANY automotive fluid reservoir. |
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Disagree on your last point - the fluid tanks tend to be plastic (probably polypropylene). You could try it in the wiper fluid reservoir which, fairly obviously, only contains what you put in it. If the detergent you put in there normally attacks plastic, then omit it and just use tap water instead. |
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What you need is an on-heat bitch to distract the sniffer dogs. Perhaps smart drug runners double-bluff and put their drugs inside the unfortunate animal. They may need an insider in quarantine though. |
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But what if the sniffer dog is a bitch too? |
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Better hope it's a lesbian then. |
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I've heard of dogs being used to send messages for clandestine meetings in Ancient Rome... only they killed the dogs to get the message out. Poor dogs... |
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The Romans used human slaves for the same purpose sometimes. |
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Now they just use e-mail. |
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