10 Creative Drug Smuggling Schemes
Being innovative and outrageously creative in drug smuggling schemes requires a lot of desperation and obviously a lot of brains. Conversely, evidently as creative as the list of such schemes is as below, they all still got caught. Nevertheless, they do deserve a cachet for coming up with such ingenious ideas.
Cocaine Pringles
Chopping and slicing thinly sheets of cocaine to make it look just like Pringles and then putting them in a can of Pringles is definitely a pure desperate act of genius. In 2006, Austin, Texas, police found about 168 grams of cocaine inside a can of Pringles. The cocaine was ingeniously made to look like the actual Pringles crisps. Talk about creativity!
Cocaine Statue of Jesus Christ
We have all heard of religious statues being filled with drugs, but imagine a statue being made of plaster and drugs, and that to a statue of no ordinary bloke, but that of Jesus! In 2008, in Texas, the U.S. customs officials caught a woman at the border crossing in Laredo. She was carrying the 6.6 pound statue and trying to escape to Mexico. The creators of this specific statue were so creative with their craft, that they made the entire statue of the Christian Savior with illicit white powder, painted the statue and made it look extremely regal. They were actually hoping to sell it for $30, 000.
Leg Cast
Human Hair Extensions
In 2006, Namibian authorities caught a 21 year old Angolan national at the HoseaKutako International Airport, in connection with an alleged plan of smuggling drugs into the country. The extremely creative aspect of this case of drug smuggling is that the suspect was attempting to use cocaine lightly spread over some 76 packets of human hair extensions.
Stuffing of a Giant Squid with a Dash of Pepper
Condoms Wrapped with Drugs Stuffed into Snakes
In 1993, the Drug Enforcement Agents at Miami airport seized nearly 36 kilograms of cocaine wrapped in condoms and stuffed in Boa constrictors. The snakes had been imported from South America, and were still alive when they were found. There were over 312 snakes about 1.5 meters in length. The cocaine was actually found by mistake when one of the snakes appeared to have an abnormal bulge. The security officials X-rayed it to see what was inside and ultimately removed two condom wrapped pellets. No one was charged in relation to the case, as the officials were unable to find the people behind not only such a creative, baffling and a little perverted drug smuggling case.
Baby s Diaper filled with Drugs
Hiding Drugs In Garden Gnomes
Drug Bugs
Intoxicating Holy Water
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18 Apr 10 at 12 37 pmKetamine is most commonly used as a date rape drug? Where are you getting this fact? -
Freebie Link18 Apr 10 at 12 38 pmThese are pretty funny, but I guess they are pretty good ideas.
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18 Apr 10 at 12 57 pmKetamine is not used as a date rape drug. People use it as a dissociative experience commonly referred to as K-hole. It is dangerous, but not typically used in date rape scenarios.
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18 Apr 10 at 12 57 pmGreat schemes, I live in panama and cuz its near colombia, the arrests,seizings, executions are so common that we dont even care anymore. The police has seized drugs stuffed in shark carcasses, squash, melons, in chocolates, inside of vaginas, etc
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18 Apr 10 at 01 42 pm"Sure it was creative to smuggle drugs in a diaper, but into a federal prison? How absurd could one get?" Yeah, smuggling drugs into prison is very rare. Those are drug free zones. Nobody in prison does drugs. It s pretty absurd that anybody would try to smuggle drugs into prison.
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18 Apr 10 at 02 03 pmPlease get your facts straight before you publish an article. Ketamine is not used for date rape. Ketamine is NOT a hallucinogen. It s a dissociative anesthetic.
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18 Apr 10 at 02 16 pm@Anonymous:Here is what wikipedia says on Date Rape Drugs:
"Testing kits that claim to detect GHB, ketamine, and benzodiazepines such as Rohypnol in seconds are commercially available. Companies around the world are making or trying to make paper coasters or test strips that change color when dabbed with a drink doctored with a date rape drug."
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18 Apr 10 at 02 29 pm@anon:Please read this article:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17623650.800
This may prove you wrong. -
18 Apr 10 at 02 33 pmRead what encyclopedia has to say about Ketamine. Here is the link:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P3-56115687.html
Quoting from the encyclopedia page: Ketamine joins the list of `date rape drugs -
18 Apr 10 at 02 36 pmKatamine is a date rape drug as per the US government . http://www.womenshealth.gov/faq/date-rape-drugs.cfm
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18 Apr 10 at 02 40 pm@Kevanassa:Please read this:
http://www.idph.state.il.us/about/womenshealth/factsheets/date.htm
It says: GHB (gamma hydroxybutyric acid), ketamine and rohypnol are the most common date-rape drugs. -
18 Apr 10 at 03 15 pm@Kevanassa:thats not what he said he sais it is mostly used for date rape. not the most
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18 Apr 10 at 04 12 pmKetamine may be used as a date rape drug, but to say that date rape is it s most common use is simply not true.
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bigbud18 Apr 10 at 04 26 pmin its 1st life ketamine was or is used as a animal trank before surgery
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18 Apr 10 at 04 57 pmHey John- i bet you believe all the other lies the US government spews about where your tax dollars are going, the lethal dangers of marijuana, and how there are WMDs in iraq, right? Heaven forbid you do just 5 minutes of your own research and come up with a conclusion of your own!
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18 Apr 10 at 06 27 pm@AssKicker:I can t believe the gov would have overlooked alcohol. It s by far the most common date rape drug.
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18 Apr 10 at 06 28 pm@John:By the omission of alcohol on that list, I can only assume the rest of the list would be seriously flawed and under-researched.
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18 Apr 10 at 06 57 pmKetamine is a animal anesthetic. mainly for cats. people take it to get high, it is a dissociative and frankly not much fun. sure, you can use it as a date rape drug due to the fact that it makes your short term memory dissapear, but thats like saying alcohol is a date rape drug. check your facts first, morons.
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18 Apr 10 at 07 00 pm@John:Good boy john. read what the government says is true, do no research of your own, and accept it as gospel. marijuana will make you go crazy and kill your dog, obama is a communist and republicans really want whats best for the country, not just to furthur their religious based do as i say not as i do bullshit. now, sit, stay, roll over you mindless fuck.
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18 Apr 10 at 07 19 pm@dds:Special K anyone? It is a HORSE tranquilizer... of course it can be used as a date rape drug!!
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18 Apr 10 at 10 59 pm@Bob:Having parents in the prison system, i m gonna have to call ya out on this. People do use drugs in prison. Its a pretty common problem and no matter how hard the officers try, drugs still get into prisons.
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19 Apr 10 at 12 49 amWhat a dumb article. Ketamine isn t used for that. It s quite possibly the best drug there is.
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14 May 10 at 08 52 pm
lol @ ketamine as a date rape drug. Not horse tranquilizer, dude. Cat tranquilizer is its most common use. It's effects are comparable to alcohol and it's no more dangerous than alcohol. Don't believe everything you read. Especially from the US government.
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17 May 10 at 08 31 am@Kevanassa:
Rofl k is not known as a date rape drug at all. You must be thinking of ruffies.
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17 May 10 at 08 51 am
Despite government figures which try and state otherwise, the most commonly used date rape drug (by a VERY long way) is ALCOHOL. In fact, while the UK government considers drugs like GHB to be date-rape drugs there is not one confirmed case of GHB being used in a date rape in Britain. Ketamine was, and still is, used medically on both humans and animals. I had ketamine injected into my hand before I got a large wound stiched up a couple of years ago and it is commonly used in serious injuries like broken spines to keep the patient asleep for days at a time (ketamine-induced coma).
The only problem I can see with that is for those that use ketamine recreationally, and therefore have a higher tolerance than expected by their doctor (the stitches in my hand hurt like fuck, but I couldn't say anything to the doctor because my mum was in the room...).
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Jadams20 May 10 at 08 35 am@Kevanassa:
Yeh, that is an absolute fiction. It'd be crap as a date rape drug.
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21 May 10 at 02 24 am
Wow, how did some of these people even get caught, I can understand the prison one because people try to bring drugs to the prisoners all the time, but the squid one and some others? It's kind of stupid that they say ketamine is mostly a date rape drug, it is found throughout a few different date rape drugs, but is most commonly found in animal tranquilizers and anesthetics and a few anesthetics for humans and very rarely pain reliever pills and drugs. And it only acts as an hallucinogenic when inhaled, which you would have to boil in order to get the fumes from it in order to cause that effect. As any other method, even injecting, would not cause someone to hallucinate.
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22 May 10 at 02 29 pm
There are so many people on here who are either pharmacists, or experts in the field of drugs used for rape.
Rapists.
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alaturka23 May 10 at 06 31 pm
Wow, very stupid but also very genious. They are all in jail , I hope!
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Throckmorton Jones01 Jun 10 at 09 35 pm
Ketamine or Special K is a horse tranq as its intended use.
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04 Jun 10 at 06 38 pm
i cant believe someone was trying to smuggle all those x pills into prison. who the hell wants to roll in prison? think of those horrible X parties. and yes sir, there is a great deal of drugs in prisons and jails. mostly just of ghetto quality and mostly hard drugs. ive seen marijuana in prison but its always the lowest quality imaginable. now as for the heroin and crack, i dunno. i never did those drugs, IN JAIL but i imagine they were really cut down considering how hard they are to get in the place. most get in via the human asshole. in the cell block i was in, it wouldve been very easy to get a hold of drugs. to be honest, it wouldve been alot easier than going out to the streets to obtain them, unless of course u know someone who does delivery.
yeah ketamine could be used as a date rape drug in large quantities but lets not forget that alcohol is the number one date rape drug on the planet! if you combared numbers youd see that alcohol is definately the rape tool of choice by most evil sexually deprived bastards. the intoxicant doses of ketamine, where one is still conscious (sort of anyway ;) ), if anything can resist one from getting raped. ketamine can be like pcp giving the user a great deal of strength that they dont even notice they are exerting. if conflict arouses itself in the prescence of a ketamine intoxicated person, they WILL likely be able to hold their own and kick your ass hard. i wouldnt want to piss off someone in a k hole. then again it is sold for anesthesia so yea if the dose was high enough, rape could be a danger to consider. though you would have to be slipped that high of a dosage in your drink or be forcefully injected because even high recreational doses will not come close to you losing consciousnes. hell who rapes someone on K? probably someone evil and someone who is not on the drug themselves. i dont think i could even get it up on K to be honest, let alone cook up some evil scheme to take advantage of someone comfortable enough with me to get high with me and go into the hole.
im a drug abuser of over 10 yeaRS and have never heard of anyone being raped by ketamine. now alcohol on the other hand, is a completely different story. though that's never labeled rape, usually just a "mistake." i dont like rape and would shot a rapist in the head everyday of my life if i could. wheter they're a date rapist or a serial rapist id love to put a bullet in their heads everyday of my life
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11 Jun 10 at 10 28 pm@AssKicker:
Anybody can post/edit something on wikipedia. Which is why no teacher/professor will allow you to use it.
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25 Jun 10 at 01 29 pm
Wow people, do your research before posting claims. www.erowid.org. Don't go to Wikipedia for drug info and harm reduction.
K can be used as a date rape drug; but it is not of the usual few: GHB, strong Benzos(Rohypnol) and Barbs, and the one guy got it 100% correct the the #1 offender is Alcohol. Pretty much anything that puts you in a boarderline coma can be used as a date rape drug...hell add Heroin and Nyquil to the list.
K can cause mild hallucinations though you are correct anon, it is a dissacociative.
