and then I can take my dog for walks and get some really cool free shit like weed, or cocaine, or lead…
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owl@infosec.pub 5 days ago
What do you think of my business idea of dogtoys that smell like illegal stuff, so you can train your dog to sniff out things. You have a ball and it smells like cocaine (there is no cocain in there), but you can hide it and train your dog now to sniff out cocaine, just for the fun of it. And there is one, that smells like explosives, one for marijuana, one for meth and so on.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 days ago
owl@infosec.pub 5 days ago
Is it an urban legend, that people have hidden stashes in public?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 5 days ago
only one way to find out!
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
You’ll never find hidden stashes of weed or cocaine. However the stashes of lead will find you if you follow your dog towards stashes of weed or cocaine.
owl@infosec.pub 4 days ago
What are stashes of lead? Have read that here before.
puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
i had hidden stashes in public when I was on probation as a youth lol
owl@infosec.pub 4 days ago
Was it because hiding it at home was more risky with parents?
Maybe it’s also an all eggs in one basket kinda thing. What if one stash is found or damaged, better to have backup.
Or one could use it for dealing. I would imagine selling stuff to addicts, is kinda dangerous. What if they have no more money, but they know you have stuff in your pocket. Kinda scary. So what if you hide it, they give you the money and you give them a description where it is hidden. Sounds safer. Yes easier to scam, but a lot is about trust.
I could imagine if someone is addicted, hiding a stash somewhere outside could keep one from eating through their entire stash when they get greedy.
I’m kinda interested in how such things work.
Can you explain how a public stash worked. Is it just a zip bag lightly buried? Or stuffed in some walls crack?
IMongoose@lemmy.world 5 days ago
People do train and compete with their dogs in scent work but they use essential oils. So there may be a market for scented toys but probably not for illegal stuff.
Also I’m not sure accidentally busting a drug trafficker is the key to a long healthy life lol.
owl@infosec.pub 4 days ago
That makes more sense I suppose. Even if something just looks or smells illegal, it can still cause trouble.
meliaesc@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You could make toys that smell like low blood sugar, or a seizure? Useful and still a good business model.
owl@infosec.pub 4 days ago
I suppose that would better be left to pros not hobbyists.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The real idea is to treasure those scents and spray them on all kinds of random shit.
If the damn dog reacts to a bunch of items that aren’t weed, then you have grounds to challenge any searches conducted based on the dog’s reaction.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 days ago
This actually isn’t far removed from the reality we already have, it’s found many of the dogs are specifically trained not to accurately detect things, but to give the reaction that allows a cop to move forward in order to create probable cause.
Madison420@lemmy.world 4 days ago
A well trained dog in controlled lab conditions is about 80% accurate iirc a dog in practice is far less than 50% accurate.
owl@infosec.pub 4 days ago
I mean at the airport the dog identifies you suitcase and the officers then search the suitcase. Not sure how you could trick the dogs then.
I suppose you could do it at your home, but that’s not useful either for the same reasons.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Thousands of people all treating their perfectly-innocent suitcases with the stuff will generate a false-positive rate high enough that it’ll make the dogs’ signals unusable as probable cause.
owl@infosec.pub 4 days ago
That could work, but why would anyone do that?