Shipping drugs out in the open with a mainstream everyday company. Call me crazy, but I think I'd find a better way to distribute my drugs if I were a dealer.

Hmm 30 pound brick of pot or tools...I think I would have kept quiet!

"I love my fed-ex guy cause he's a drug dealer and he don't even know it...and he's always on time." - Mitch Hedberg

First thing I thought of...

@downwithmonstercable: While you're being hypothetical, at what phone number could someone reach you to place an order?

Thank goodness the police weren't around. Last guy that had a mistaken delivery like that got his door kicked in, his dogs shot, and was handcuffed with his entire family without a by your leave or an apology...[www.washingtonpost.com]

So he should consider himself lucky...

@Thaddeus: Same here.
Seems very odd that they would guess instead of just returning to sender though.

@downwithmonstercable: "Hidden in plain sight."

@nighttrain2007: That package was addressed to someone in the house. Understandable why they would suspect them.

@KyleOrton: Shh, not here, send me an email on my yahoo account. It is secure.@Thaddeus: AHHH! Mitch Hedberg is comic genius. I can't believe I didn't think of that. Good call.

"My lucky number is four billion. That doesn't come in real handy when you're gambling. "Come on four billion! Fuck! Seven. Not even close. I need some more dice. Four billion divided by six, at least."

@downwithmonstercable: aw man, I f'ed up the reply.

@Thaddeus: AHHH! Mitch Hedberg is comic genius. I can't believe I didn't think of that. Good call.

"My lucky number is four billion. That doesn't come in real handy when you're gambling. "Come on four billion! Fuck! Seven. Not even close. I need some more dice. Four billion divided by six, at least."

Well now I know to make sure the address is perfect on a UPS package I might ship out. A package I try to send to San Francisco might just end up in San Diego, because that's obviously what I meant to put.

I wonder if it was insured?

Well, hopefully whoever sent the package to UPS for delivery placed enough insurance on it to cover the contents.

@downwithmonstercable: Actually weed (and I assume the harder stuff too) gets shipped via FedEx, UPS, and USPS all the time. I have friends who have mailed themselves a little present in their destination city before embarking on a plane trip, and they have never had any issues with it.

Would I do it? Hell no. Too easy to track in case some bullshit like this happens. But still, its a pretty common practice.

@Saboth: Hah yeah no kidding, even if it was low quality stuff (which it likely was if it was packaged as a brick), 30 pounds could buy you a lot of tools.

It's a brick and I'm driving slowly
Wrong address, now I'm heading nowhere
It's a brick and I'm driving slowly

@MyPetFly: Yeah, they got the "moocher stoner friend" coverage.

@downwithmonstercable:

It's actually not a bad idea. UPS is an independent third party. Your merchandise won't get stolen by the delivery guy since he doesn't know what's in the package. Other drug dealers won't rob you since you or your associates aren't moving your product.

As long as UPS doesn't catch wind of what's being sent, it's just another package.

isn't this the plot of some stupid movie that's coming out? oh, here

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@Jesse,Rhayader: Huh. Learn something new every day. I imagined some grand drug network, like in American Gangster.

@downwithmonstercable: "I'm staying at hotel, I can't tell you the name of it, but it involves 2 trees..."

No one should be opening packages not addressed to them. Saying he thought it was from Sears is a weak excuse. More likely he was looking to something valuable and got scared by such a find. In any event, I think I'd be more inclined to turn the packack into UPS than the police. No telling what will come next.

@Rhayader: You're absolutely correct. I found out about this a few months ago and was simply floored at how widespread and frequent this practice is.

I agree, though, that I would never do it. Tracking numbers, addresses, credit cards, user history... all that stuff is conveniently attached to a transaction. No thanks.

@Hoss: Yeah I tend to agree. If the cops were onto him, he would have been arrested as soon as he accepted delivery. The fact that he accepted and opened the package without any trouble means that nobody was on to him. With that in mind, he could have easily found another avenue for the weed; it's not hard to find people willing to take a little grass.

Of course, maybe he really wanted the tools, in which case he would have to say something.

@Hoss: Half the time if I'm expecting a package, I don't look at who it's addressed to. This caused a problem one time, when I was expecting Gladiator on DVD to come, and when I opened it it was a porn flick my neighbor had ordered, but was delivered to me. That was an awkward situation. I ended up leaving it on his windshield wiper.

Now I read who it's addressed to first.

Somebody should overnight the guy a jar of peanut butter in case he sampled a bit of the product.

$10,500/30 lb = $350/lb or $21/oz.

Yeah, I think I might have given this package to the cops too. That is 30 pounds of Mexican headache.

@Thaddeus: That's the first thing I thought of too. Mitch is the best.

@cjones27: Yeah, not worth it. Plus, who doesn't love a nice cross-country drive with a couple kilos stashed under the spare tire?

@darkjedi26: I was walking by a dry cleaner at 3 a.m., and it said "Sorry, we're closed." You don't have to be sorry. It's 3 a.m., and you're a dry cleaner. It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open. I'm not gonna walk by at ten and say, "Hey, I walked by at three, you guys were closed. Someone owes me an apology. This jacket would be halfway done!"

Peter: "A boat's a boat, but the mystery box could be anything. It could even be a boat!"

Lois: "Then, let's just take the bo..."

Peter: "WE'LL TAKE THE BOAT!"

@cjones27:

Your caught too if you get pulled over and they find the 100lbs of durgs your transporting in the trunk.

@BlackMage is doing the Time Warp agaaaaaaain!!!:

Awww you meant box on the last line, I believe!

@KHAN!!!_GitEmSteveDave: True, but did they really need to bust in there with SWAT and kill his dogs?

Between this story and the BART shooting I'm beginning to wonder what kind of people we're hiring in law enforcement.

I am very, very upset that UPS is enabling some stoner in Dallas to have unfettered access to tools.

[www.imeem.com]

Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton - The Mountain Goats

@Saboth: Dammit, yeah I did.

Where's our freaking edit button already?!

@SexCpotatoes: Hail Satan!

@downwithmonstercable: You would be surprised... I used to work at a DHL shipping facility and we had regular customers sending 30 pound packages smelling of lysol and dryer softener tissues. I come from a south texas border town and this is a common practice around this area.

What I cannot believe is that half of the people in this post are so naive as to think that drug smugglers would not use their "Sacred USPS, UPS, FEDEX" facilities to do their dirty work. People wake up and smell the coffee... these guys decapitate people and give the corpses to the dogs (true story) to leave no trace.

Don't tell me that you also think that the bulk of the drugs coming into this country from our south neighbors are smuggled in by the river or the desert... if you think this you are WRONG again!!! The bulk of the drugs coming into this country are let in by the bridges and borders along the US-MEXICO border by corrupt US Customs and Border Patrol Officers that "look the other way for a small fee". Homeland Security at its best.

Sorry to burst y'alls bubble...

haha. i used to work for someone that would travel and UPS weed to himself..

@ekthesy: Yeah definitely. I mean, the word "brick" itself implies low-grade stuff.

Being shipped from a Texas address to begin with, it's likely that this shit originated in Mexico.

@Rhayader: I am assuming this wont work if you are shipping internationally?

Good to know otherwise (not for myself of course)

@Jesse: Uhh, obviously.

Typically though, you have more control over it if you act as the courier. Using postal services opens the package up to all sorts of variables that can't be controlled: drug dogs, random inspection, police surveillance, etc.

Sure, there is a chance you can get pulled over or have an accident. And, if that happens, there is a chance that a legal search could turn up your stash. If you drive carefully and legally though, I think it's much safer than mailing it somewhere.

@cjones27: One of my buddies works at UPS and this kind of thing happens all the time. He was working in the warehouse one night when a big box came through with a giant rip in the side, hanging out of the rip was a big bag of weed...he turned it in to his boss and found out the entire box was stuffed with drugs of different types.

@Rhayader: You are absolutely correct sir. Happens everyday (because UPS doesn't do random inspections).

I would give the story about how I found a 25-lb brick of the stuff when I worked there in a specialized department (and could open anything) and then the DEA showed up.

But I'd be saying too much. (Totally true story, btw)

@Adrienne Willis: Yeah well personally, I wouldn't even do it domestically. But yeah, international shipment is much more tightly controlled.

@chumia40: I agree with what you are saying, but also keep in mind that a relatively small percentage of our country's marijuana comes from Mexico now. Not only is Canada a major source, but weed is also, by some estimates, the #1 cash crop in the US. Plus, the amount of money per kilo of weed that a smuggler can get is pretty small, whereas coke and heroin have much higher yields. Import of those drugs (and meth) through Mexico has exploded in the past decade or so.

But did he get his tools?

There's nothing worse than being stuck on a project because you're waiting on a shipment from Harbor Freight or Sears...