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.