Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever...
by TillE on Sunday July 09, 2017 @12:58PM
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Also, you'd think that requiring a commercial flight to a remote island would filter out most of the drugs anyway.
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Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever...
by symlinkk on Sunday July 09, 2017 @01:13PM
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LSD can be stored in liquid form inside of eyedrop sized containers. MDMA and coke are powders which can be stored in a makeup bag without arousing suspicion. Weed can be baked into edibles (brownies, cupcakes, etc) or added to candy (gummies, lollipops). Basically the only thing you need to do is make sure they visually don't look like drugs, since the TSA isn't going to be drug testing everything, they'll just be passing it through an x-ray machine and visually inspecting it.
Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever...
by michaelt on Sunday July 09, 2017 @01:48PM
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Still, there's a risk-reward ratio, where the risk is presumably chance of search * chance of detection * penalty for detection.
With a flight the chance of search is 100% - and the TSA are famously tough on innocent people, so I can't imagine they're easy on guilty people.
One would think the increased risk would at least raise prices, if not limit the supply.
Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever...
by magic_beans on Sunday July 09, 2017 @01:36PM
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What about dogs? Dogs can certainly detect weed in an edible, as well as very small quantities of cocaine and mdma.
Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever...
by kingkawn on Sunday July 09, 2017 @01:47PM
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I've heard that most dogs in airports are specifically trained to detect explosives, not marijuana.
Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever...
by mrgriscom on Sunday July 09, 2017 @03:58PM
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Airport security != customs
Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever...
by ryanlol on Sunday July 09, 2017 @01:47PM
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Would require ridiculous amounts of dogs, they get bored very fast.
Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever...
by zdkl on Sunday July 09, 2017 @01:25PM
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I'd wager that's not how the bulk of whatever was used there was imported, but I may have seen too many James Bond movies.
Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever...
by protomyth on Sunday July 09, 2017 @02:05PM
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I would assume the opposite because of the cash available to the attendees and someone probably flew private. This is a rich clientele with a desire to party. Someone would figure the logistics of supplying them.
Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever...
by tomjen3 on Sunday July 09, 2017 @01:45PM
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Since there are drugs in US prisons, probably nothing stops people from getting them into a remote island.
Re:The Disastrous Fyre Festival May Have Wrecked It for Ever...
by draw_down on Sunday July 09, 2017 @01:35PM
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Ha, I personally would not think that but fair enough.
I was simply pointing out that if it's soo hard and expensive to insure a festival because people do drugs, what has Fyre festival got to do with that? It was a disaster because the organizers didn't do their jobs.