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

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sdifox said:
I bet op is the ballon boy redux :awe:
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On May 1st, 2018, exactly one month after heroin was reportedly found in two NES game cartridges allegedly purchased that way from a flea market, police raided a home in Newnan, GA, carrying out over 1,500 game cartridges, a 3D printer, industrial-sized ink cartridges, and two suspects in cuffs. The home on [street redacted] was long suspected of being a heroin den but suspicions were elevated leading up to the arrest after the pair turned in an estimated 4 ounces of synthetic heroin on April 1st of this year.

The suspects were charged with making false police reports, unlawful possession and trafficking of controlled substances, and running an unlicensed rabbit breeding operation. Police confirmed that the substance they received a month ago was actually heroin but uncovered more evidence that the narcotics were deliberately placed there by the two suspects “possibly as some ill-conceived April Fools joke,” according to the Newnan PD Press Relations officer, R.Paulson.

After the announcement we spoke with officer T.Durden to ask why the two would play with fire by involving the police at all. Durden theorized that “they were probably high on their own supply when they decided to do something that enormously stupid.”

Authorities first began to become suspicious when researching similar cases. Officer Krause remembered seeing ink cartridges, a gram scale, a 3D printer, game cartridges, and other paraphernalia when he first responded on Easter Sunday. 3D printed game and ink cartridges were found in a similar raid in Norway which was reported internationally mid-March. When presented the cause for a warrant, City of Newnan judge M.Singer was incredulous that anyone would incriminate themselves for an April Fools Day prank. “I was hesitant to sign the warrant until officers returned with a history of the their past interactions with the two.” Indeed, the pair have a long and bizarre history of interactions with NPD. In one example from over 20 years ago, the twins called the police to their mother’s house. They threatened to sue the department if they did not arrest the mother for theft and destruction of their property after she threw away the box to Super Mario 64 and refused to replace it.

This further confirms the link we in the media have long suspected between video games, seedy unground drug dens, and brain damage. This didn’t start in college or a biker bar: This came from the blacklit depths of ‘80s arcades.

-Hessel, Raymond K., Managing Editor reporting for The Newnan Times Herald
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The Future is an amazing place. B)
 
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Man, I hope you aren't the guys who's find leads to someone like Pablo Escobar....because that would be bad for you.

Good luck bros, and I have a basement/back yard if you need it for a few weeks, btw.
 
zinfamous said:
Man, I hope you aren't the guys who's find leads to someone like Pablo Escobar....because that would be bad for you.

Good luck bros, and I have a basement/back yard if you need it for a few weeks, btw.
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Hopefully Don-whoever knows the police have it now...so there's nothing I can do to help recover it at this point 🙂
 
your story made it on my local radio station this past week. i was like "hey, I KNOW THOSE GUYS". well, sort of. and then i continued merrily commuting to work 😛
 
You may find out what it was, but that's as far as the investigation will go. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if they never even bother to test it. There's so much stuff out there that it would be a complete waste of time to trying to figure out where those things came from. They just got lost in the shuffle, for whatever reason, and whoever smuggled them in probably wrote it off long ago.

Read any small town newspaper today and, among the odd number of obituaries for 20- and 30-somethings, you'll find small stories of traffic stops and domestic violence calls that lead to finding pounds of heroin in brick form.
 
Don't worry, it's probably just anthrax. Antibiotics should help, if you don't die before they do their thing.


It may also be drugs off course. It may be, it may be not. Doesn't really matter.


Besides, the only difference between "legal" and "illegal" drugs is that for "illegal" drugs, some yahoo/yahoos in the government just decided at some point that they should be illegal.

Who the hell are they to tell anyone whats legal and whats not?

Supposedly the idea is, that drugs kill... Well, hard work can kill too. But we all have to work! You don't see that being outlawed!
 
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Went to the same flea market today.

Tommy runs "Gator Games." Someone bought all his copies of Golf. He had at least 15 copies when I looked a week earlier! That dirt-cheap game had occupied a significant chunk of his $3 rack. He actually has one copy left. It had probably been separated from the rest of them.

At the same flea market, Infinite Games is where my brother and I bought the 2 games from our friend Dylan. He reorganized his layout a bit and there are far fewer games for people to handle. He also sold out of Golf. I checked with one more vendor (Inez) and she said people had been looking all through her bins for copies of Golf.

Damn druggies, man. 😛

I don't know if this trend is localized to the flea market where we found those games, or if it's a bigger phenomenon.
 
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Ichinisan said:
Went to the same flea market today.

Tommy runs "Gator Games." Someone bought all his copies of Golf. He had at least 15 the last time I looked! That dirt-cheap game had occupied a significant chunk of his $3 rack. He actually has one copy left. It had probably been separated from the rest of them.

At the same flea market, Infinite Games is where my brother and I bought the 2 games from our friend Dylan. He reorganized his layout a bit and there are far fewer games for people to handle. He also sold out of Golf. I checked with one more vendor (Inez) and she said people had been looking all through her bins for copies of Golf.

Damn druggies, man. 😛

I don't know if this trend is localized to the flea market where we found those games, or if it's a bigger phenomenon.
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😱

You'd think people would realize the odds of the same game being used multiple times was low, and that any other "hot" cartridges would have already been pulled. But no, people are idiots.

(This is the part where you buy that copy of golf, put some lead weights in it, and sell it back just to screw with people)
 
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DC area, just saw a bit on my local evening TV news about this. Showed the cartridge and cops standing around the porch of a house.
 
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