Strange find inside Nintendo games from flea market. NOT AN APRIL FOOLS PRANK

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Ichinisan

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My brother often works with off-duty police officers in his job. One of them was really interested in the incident. He said the seized items would have gone to Georgia Bureau of Investigation (not to the Carrollton police). His former coworker (Krause) is one of the officers that responded last year. That guy now works for GBI as some kind of drug specialist. The guy my brother works with sent a text message to the GBI guy to ask if they ever determined what it was. The GBI officer responded: "Knowing what I know now, it was fentanyl." (basically synthetic highly-potent heroin)​
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Yes, I found them on April Fools Day. No, this is not a prank.

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I cut one of the packets with a snap-off knife.

More:
https://imgur.com/a/Y0o1T

There's video of the carts being opened and one packet being cut. My twin brother uploaded to his YouTube:

My twin brother (CZroe) and I went to a flea market one county over from us. The game vendor is our friend. He keeps expensive games behind glass and puts cheap games on a rack that anyone can look through. My brother noticed that one title on the rack was suspiciously heavy, so we checked the rest and found another heavy cartridge. "Golf" was USA version. "Rollergames" was European "PAL-B" -- which will not work with most NES systems in USA. My friend couldn't find his gamebit screwdriver, so I bought the games from him and promised to send video/pics of whatever we find. It makes sense for smugglers to use these carts because they're mostly empty and it requires a special screwdriver to open.

Reminds me of the Famicom games from South America that had capsules inside containing live spiders!
https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en...endo-famicom-cartridges-to-smuggle-73-spiders

Would be funny if one of the games had been "NARC" or "Dirty Harry."
 
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You did call the cops, right? If you guys make the evening news tomorrow, I hope it's in a good way.
 
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Woah.:eek:

It's moderately clever. But someone must have screwed up here since I don't imagine those carts were meant to be for sale.

And given all the possibilities for what that could be, I really hope it's just drugs and not something far more lethal...
 
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Paladin3 said:
You did call the cops, right? If you guys make the evening news tomorrow, I hope it's in a good way.
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Yeah.

I wish I had taken a better picture of the label for the European PAL-B game. I think the product code ended with "FRA" or something, so it might have been the French release.
 
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You should of been wearing gloves could of been carfental or one of the ones that you can overdose on from skin contact. When whoever went to jail or whatever happened for these to get lost in the mix, comes(could be his friends) looking for you a youtube video isn't exactly a good idea.
 
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skull said:
You should of been wearing gloves could of been carfental or one of the ones that you can overdose on from skin contact. When whoever went to jail or whatever happened for these to get lost in the mix, comes(could be his friends) looking for you a youtube video isn't exactly a good idea.
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Several people told me to use gloves, so I was very careful not to touch any of the stuff while cutting it open. I carefully put the cut packet into 2 ziploc bags.

Still alive :)

So many people offered to make it disappear and I couldn't be sure if they were even serious. One of them said: "Dude, it's heroin. Call the cops." So I did.

Cops aren't sure what it is. They said it could be a designer drug that's chemically altered so it's not easy to identify. I've heard people say "hash," "heroin," even "fentanyl."

Not sure if I'll ever find out what they determine it to be.
 
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Ichinisan said:
Several people told me to use gloves, so I was very careful not to touch any of the stuff while cutting it open. I carefully put the cut packet into 2 ziploc bags.

Still alive :)

So many people offered to make it disappear and I couldn't be sure if they were even serious. One of them said: "Dude, it's heroin. Call the cops." So I did.

Cops aren't sure what it is. They said it could be a designer drug that's chemically altered so it's not easy to identify. I've heard people say "hash," "heroin," even "fentanyl."

Not sure if I'll ever find out what they determine it to be.
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If it's cocaine I am sure they will destroy the evidence through their noses.
 
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Ichinisan said:
Several people told me to use gloves, so I was very careful not to touch any of the stuff while cutting it open. I carefully put the cut packet into 2 ziploc bags.

Still alive :)

So many people offered to make it disappear and I couldn't be sure if they were even serious. One of them said: "Dude, it's heroin. Call the cops." So I did.

Cops aren't sure what it is. They said it could be a designer drug that's chemically altered so it's not easy to identify. I've heard people say "hash," "heroin," even "fentanyl."

Not sure if I'll ever find out what they determine it to be.
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Looks like heroin to me it comes in all kinds of forms but it could be anything designer like the cops said.

It doesn't take much carfental to kill you just a spec on one of your fingers or breathing it in if you stirred up dust. Careful didn't save you luck did.

Calling the cops doesn't keep people looking for their drugs from trying to track you down...

Some more ruthless gang members will say you owe them for it regardless.
 
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skull said:
Looks like heroin to me it comes in all kinds of forms but it could be anything designer like the cops said.

It doesn't take much carfental to kill you just a spec on one of your fingers or breathing it in if you stirred up dust. Careful didn't save you luck did.

Calling the cops doesn't keep people looking for their drugs from trying to track you down...

Some more ruthless gang members will say you owe them for it regardless.
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You’d think they would be pretty deterred by the involvement of cops and the very-public disclosure. Also, considering that it only gets them in more trouble to punish someone who couldn’t possibly have returned it, it doesn’t even make any sense from the perspective of making an example.

Sorry, but I can’t take that seriously. There are many news articles about stuff being found/smuggled in game carts and ending up in the wrong hands. Everything from money, porn, meth, and live spiders (yes: live spiders). This is just the latest in a long line.
 
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Sonikku said:
As if Nintendo games weren't addictive enough already, sheesh!

You never invite me over to play Nintendo, oniisan. :(
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"Play Nintendo." Yes.

These "games" are pretty hard core. You up for it?

What I mean is, these games will really %#^* you up.
 
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