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People will go to great lengths to smuggle something, going as far as making Nintendo based cartridges to smuggle drugs in.

Four people were arrested in The Netherlands last week after a police raid on a premises that had been using tons of 3D printers to create fake Nintendo cartridges, inside which were hidden a variety of drugs like LSD, cocaine and MDMA.

You can get the full details here, but police were monitoring the dark web, set up some deals and in the end busted the ring as well as get info on all buyers and suppliers.
 
Oh my God... Seriously?
I can't really get it.. But then again except for tea addiction...I don't have anything else... But making money out of others weakness is just too low
 
Cartridges were also used to smuggle live spiders, indeed cartridges can hold more than games.

Mexico’s Federal Police intercepted a shipment of contraband goods headed for the US at Guadalajara Airport. They opened a box that contained ten cartridges with labels like Jurassic Park and Robocop 2. There were 73 tubes stashed inside the hollow top section of each plastic case, each one containing a live spider. The spiders were headed for Hanover.

https://kotaku.com/live-spiders-found-smuggled-inside-bootleg-nintendo-car-1795113221
 
cm2 said:
Cartridges were also used to smuggle live spiders, indeed cartridges can hold more than games.


Mexico’s Federal Police intercepted a shipment of contraband goods headed for the US at Guadalajara Airport. They opened a box that contained ten cartridges with labels like Jurassic Park and Robocop 2. There were 73 tubes stashed inside the hollow top section of each plastic case, each one containing a live spider. The spiders were headed for Hanover.

https://kotaku.com/live-spiders-found-smuggled-inside-bootleg-nintendo-car-1795113221
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I don't know whats going to happen in that video, but I'm not clicking it!
 
Had a bad experience with a spider before?
 
This does not seem like a good idea since there are dogs which can smell drugs, and there are machines which can smell drugs. Plus, police officers sometimes randomly open people's packages if they look suspicious, or come from an address which has a lot of drug problems.
 
Why am I not surprised?

FYI, unlike what most people believe, drugs is illegal in the Netherlands.
Though soft drugs has a policy of "we know people sell it, but as long as they keep to the quota of 50g per customers a day, we don't see anything".
Hard drugs on the other hand is strictly prohibited, and all 3 of those mentioned in the first post fall under exactly that category.
 
okay then i'll be sure to take that into account when posting something spider related in the future, though I suppose Spider-man stuff is not an "issue" for you lol.
 
Just read another case of drug smuggling in cartridges

Game Collector Finds Drugs Hidden Inside NES Cartridges

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Julian Turner, a collector of retro video games, went to a market earlier this month and bought some old NES games. When he got home,
he discovered that he’d got more than he paid for: two of the cartridges were packed with illegal drugs.

The two games in question were Rollergames and Golf. Alarm bells started ringing when Julian realised that
the copy of Rollergames was a PAL (Europe/Australian) version, which isn’t something you’d see every day at a flea market in Georgia.

After then noticing the cartridges felt heavier in the hand, Turner weighed them on digital scales and found both games were around
50% heavier than they should have been (he had other copies of both games on-hand to compare).

So he unscrewed the backs of both games to investigate, opened them up and found four shiny plastic bags. After opening those,
he...called the cops.
 
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