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

[CZroe]

So far, my favorite articles are the NY Post since they got the police report and independently confirmed it (we’ve never talked) and SyFy Wire, since they didn’t make nearly as many incorrect assumptions as the others and actually acknowledged my brother after asking questions in the YouTube comments.

Most others just assume that he = me, since I don’t actually appear in the main videos. I was the voice behind the camera, opening the games; he was was the one cutting the pack open and making the phone call. It was a team effort.

https://nypost.com/2018/04/13/video-game-collector-finds-drugs-in-old-nintendo-cartridges/

http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/gamer-discovers-drugs-hidden-in-classic-nes-cartridges

WGN ran a story too but I think it’s web-only:
http://wgntv.com/2018/04/16/drugs-found-inside-video-game-cartridges/

Do you have another brother? Double dog dare...lick it.

An older half-brother but he lives in another state. He probably would do something crazy.

 

[CZroe]

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.

Neat! For some reason I thought you lived in Trinidad or Tobago.

 

[Thebobo]

Neat! For some reason I thought you lived in Trinidad or Tobago.

I wish.

 

[Chaotic42]

Neat! For some reason I thought you lived in Trinidad or Tobago.

I think Jodell does.

 

[brianmanahan]

Neat! For some reason I thought you lived in Trinidad or Tobago.

i thought it was pago pago

 

[mrblotto]

Heard the story on Rock92 on my way into work today.......now you can post in the 'what was/is your 15 minutes of fame' thread (if you haven't already)

 

[Ichinisan]

Couple of videos with commentary:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/brothers-drugs-stashed-video-game-140232546.html

http://www.wwlp.com/world/video-games-stuffed-with-suspected-drugs/1126067504

 

[brianmanahan]

Couple of videos with commentary:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/brothers-drugs-stashed-video-game-140232546.html

http://www.wwlp.com/world/video-games-stuffed-with-suspected-drugs/1126067504

you guys need to get on a talk show or the local news

or at least a local radio station interview

 

[CZroe]

you guys need to get on a talk show or the local news

or at least a local radio station interview

Ichinisan did a podcast yesterday:
https://youtu.be/we-Izefmd0Y

 

[highland145]

Ichinisan did a podcast yesterday:
https://youtu.be/we-Izefmd0Y

Should have licked it......

 

[Iron Woode]

Jimmy Fallon commented on it tonight.

 

[brianmanahan]

Jimmy Fallon commented on it tonight.

i'm not gonna be happy until i see the ATOT twins on a late night TV show

 

[ViRGE]

Our very own celebrities. And it's not for doing something bad, for once!

 

[Ichinisan]

Jimmy Fallon commented on it tonight.

Cool! Can anyone send me the clip?

 

[Ichinisan]

Our very own celebrities. And it's not for doing something bad, for once!

It's not too late. I could start stealing Miatas or something.

 

[ViRGE]

It's not too late. I could start stealing Miatas or something.

I was going to suggest suing a retailer for not selling you monitors below cost. But that works too!

 

[Ichinisan]

Jimmy Fallon seems to think it was just weed inside the carts. His joke related it to 4/20 day.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MxsVqAW762A#t=3m12s
Jump to 3 minutes 10 seconds.

 

[Iron Woode]

Jimmy Fallon seems to think it was just weed inside the carts. His joke related it to 4/20 day.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MxsVqAW762A#t=3m12s
Jump to 3 minutes 10 seconds.

still cool to be mentioned on the Tonight Show.

 

[CZroe]

still cool to be mentioned on the Tonight Show.

Next thing you know, I’ll be hosting it! B)

Carson>Leno>Conan>Fallon>ME

 

[Thebobo]

1. So sorry if I missed it but what was it?

 

[CZroe]

1. So sorry if I missed it but what was it?

Probably heroin. At $20 for 100mg street value, we’re looking at $22,600 of H (4oz).

 

[Bubbleawsome]

This guy who runs a game store in Georgia heard about it too haha
https://imgur.com/gallery/y2AVyBW/comment/1380980011

 

[Thebobo]

[edit]

Still no word from police. I don't know what it was or how much it was worth. Does anyone know if there's a mandatory federal report or something where this would show up?​

[/edit]

Yes, I found them on April Fools Day. No, this is not a prank.

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

More: https://imgur.com/gallery/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."

So noone told you what it was? sorry didn't read ever post here.

 

[CZroe]

So noone told you what it was? sorry didn't read ever post here.

Plenty of people with good reasons why they might know have weighed in to say that it’s heroin but they only saw what you saw.

 

[Ichinisan]

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)