October 30, 2007: Cocaine guitar

via a blog called Audioporncentral;

It looks like they did a good job making it, but didn't account for the lack of pressure in the luggage compartment of a jet. The pressure differential between the pressurized cocaine packet and the depressurized luggage compartment was too great, and wisps of air, carrying white powder, came out of the guitar.

I wonder how they made it? It looks like a fiberglass shell that's been painted. If they use a mold to crank these out, now customs knows what to look for in the future.

Now if they could make the guitar vibrate they would have the greatest hat trick ever! Sex, drugs and rock and roll!

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Originally Posted by Sheldonrs Now if they could make the guitar vibrate they would have the greatest hat trick ever! Sex, drugs and rock and roll!

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Originally Posted by Undertoad What strikes me is how much trouble they went to, to create this thing, only to have it fail because it leaked. The incompetence! Always use a qualified guitar technician for major work.

Mediocre smuggling effort IMHO.
My favorite was maybe 8 or 10 years ago, dudes in the golden triangle mixed heroin with a bit of glue and pressed it into decorative shapes and shipped it as ceiling moldings. Hiding in plain sight. Nice try ... except that I saw it on the evening news...

Unfortunately, we'll never know about the really good ones that work.

This is my first post and I have to say the process is more cumbersome than I expected.
In keeping with the gustatory theme common here, I think that the filling looks like cream cheese or perhaps a puffball mushroom.
Also, it should be noted that everything inside the fuselage of a pressurized aircraft is equally pressurized, including the luggage compartment. It would be pretty tough on shipped animals if not.

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Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim Also, it should be noted that everything inside the fuselage of a pressurized aircraft is equally pressurized, including the luggage compartment. It would be pretty tough on shipped animals if not.

Welcome Diaphone Jim!

Is that username a play on Diamond Jim?

It comes from an interest in Diaphone Air Horns, big ones (Types F and G) for fog signals and smaller ones (Types B and C) for fire department and emergency alerting systems.

Not to mention telephone touch tones.

Welcome, sir. Stay a while.

This is up there with the Black PVC smuggling.

I think UT's stringing us along on this one. It looks like licorice filled with sherbert. All we need is Bertie Basset. My mate likes to pick out weird sweets like this, If I knew where to find them, I'd guitar one, the little strum-pet.

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Originally Posted by SteveDallas ... designed custom guitars for KISS guitarist Ace Frehley, including axes that would light up, (apparently) catch on fire and belch smoke, or shoot rockets.

I dunno...Keith Emerson had a ribbon controller for his giant Moog that shot flames, plus, he could play the shit out of it to boot.

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Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim ... I think that the filling looks like cream cheese...

why black?

what i wonder in first place is why they decided to build a BLACK guitar, for hiding WHITE powder.

if they would have decided in favour of the - much more beautiful - white stratocaster nobody would have seen a small leak.

amateurs!!

What baffles me is the fact that they wanted to be discreet so badly that they built a coke-carrying guitar body, but still were OK with putting TEN THERMOSES full of cocaine in the luggage! Why not just put 12 thermoses of coke in the luggage, and skip the whole guitar business altogether?

...not rockstar enough?

I was crossing the border at Tijuana, Mexico coming back from an all -night bender. To cross the border you walk through this granite civil building as you go through customs.

This guy was carrying two ceramic black panthers under each arm. One slipped out and shattered on the ground. Bags of coke exploded like a white Hiroshima nuke.

I swear I only saw two customs agents but as soon as the coke bomb dropped like 20 guys mystically appeared and tackled that guy's ass and started beating him right there in the middle of the building.

Most awesome border crossing EVER!

I notice this thread has drawn a few infrequent posters out of the woodwork. Maybe we need a two-for-one special offer or something. I wonder what it was about this thread in particular?

Duh, the coke!

I never thought of Italians as being the type to do coke. I guess it's kind of obvious in hindsight, what with all the cappuccino they inhale.

Seen along the shore of the Gulf of Naples:

~snip

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Originally Posted by Undertoad What strikes me is how much trouble they went to, to create this thing, only to have it fail because it leaked. The incompetence!

Hotdang, Shawnee, you're posting some funny stuff today. I am glad you're about.

Why thankee!

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Originally Posted by monster My mate likes to pick out weird sweets like this, If I knew where to find them, I'd guitar one, the little strum-pet.

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble Sure, but people don't realize the pressure inside the cabin is still a lot lower than on the ground. My cheap (poorly-sealed) toiletry bottles always come out all collapsed and sucked thin. And for god's sake don't ever fly with bad congestion in your ears.

True. As a pilot I can say that supplemental oxygen is only required above 10,000ft by law and by not pressurizing to sea level, this saves wear and tear on the airframe. I believe they pressurize the cabin to a maximum equivalent of 8000ft so if you live in Mexico City you will already be accustomed to it. For myself, it just seems to make me sleepy, hungry and thirsty. :p

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Originally Posted by aero geek True. As a pilot I can say that supplemental oxygen is only required above 10,000ft by law and by not pressurizing to sea level, this saves wear and tear on the airframe. I believe they pressurize the cabin to a maximum equivalent of 8000ft so if you live in Mexico City you will already be accustomed to it. For myself, it just seems to make me sleepy, hungry and thirsty. :p

Mmm...I could just eat a Pot Noodle....they really are spanking gorgeous.

okay, this is what I think: The coke guitar was made less for smuggling purposes than for a high-end user. Think how awesome that would be laid out at a party.

Uh, that would be a criminal type party. With gangsters and rock stars and stuff. I go to 'em all the time..

Okay, that's an awful lot of coke for a party, but I've seen pictures of drugs made into birds and other objects for fancy users.

AND . . . the beach shot? -- fish spunk.

Man the art of hiding drugs in things is lost today. They should have done what the American Gangster did and hide drugs in the coffins of the Afghan war dead.

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Originally Posted by deadbeater Man the art of hiding drugs in things is lost today.

Looks like we need a name change.
IoTD just isn't cutting it anymore.

How about IoTW?

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Originally Posted by aero geek True. As a pilot I can say that supplemental oxygen is only required above 10,000ft by law and by not pressurizing to sea level, this saves wear and tear on the airframe. I believe they pressurize the cabin to a maximum equivalent of 8000ft so if you live in Mexico City you will already be accustomed to it. For myself, it just seems to make me sleepy, hungry and thirsty. :p

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Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim It comes from an interest in Diaphone Air Horns, big ones (Types F and G) for fog signals and smaller ones (Types B and C) for fire department and emergency alerting systems.