October 30, 2007: Cocaine guitar
 

http://cellar.org/2007/cocaineguitar.jpg

via a blog called Audioporncentral;

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.

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!

:3eye: Good one.

This reminds me of Look Me in the Eye by John Robison, which I just read. Robison designed custom guitars for KISS guitarist Ace Frehley, including axes that would light up, (apparently) catch on fire and belch smoke, or shoot rockets.

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.

Cool. I didn't realize that. Makes sense, what with the round shape and all.

Welcome Diaphone Jim! :welcome:

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.

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.

Which reminds me why i hate kiss...

If your guitar needs to fire rockets to entertain people, you're not playing it right.:rolleyes:

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.

my first thought: another new species of deep sea fish
my second thought: no, wait - a big cheese

the cellar way of thinking is getting to me :D

why black?
 

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

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

amateurs!! :headshake

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
They must not have tested the O-rings at the lower temperatures. :yelsick:

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

Why thankee!

I'm not worthy.
:notworthy

Aye - when I went skiing I took some Pot Noodles with me (high carb low fat just-add-water meals in plastic cup containers with foil lids) just as backup. When I took them from my suitcase the thin foil lid on each of them was bulging. I only ate one in the end, but that opened with a discernible POP!

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

ag - weed is not the answer.

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.

Art? The kid of Andy Reid - NFL Philadelphia Eagles' head coach - pushed 89 pills up his anus so as to have sufficient drugs while in prison. The drugs were later found in his cell during an inspection. Where is the art in hiding drugs? Is the art in cleaning drugs before swallowing them?

BTW, back in jail are both Reid boys who are from the same town where another kid tried to Columbine the local high school. Is this an artsy town?

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

How about IoTW?

Aero geek is correct. Commercial jetliners are pressurised to 8000 feet, and while this rarely causes problems with the usual carry-on things such as toothpaste and potato chip bags, it CAN cause certain things to burst. Over pressurised cans, home canning, and butane lighters for example.

That is truly an unusual interest. You'll fit right in here. Welcome.