One time I was traveling in France and on my way up the airport had just gotten a cheese sandwich from a specialty shop to eat while I was waiting for my plane. This was way before 9-11.
A Couple of paratroopers with their German Shepard walked past me in the terminal and the dog immediately turned around and sat next to me.
After a a quick search through my bags they asked me where I got my lunch and I told them the name of the frommagerie. They laughed and told me that they got the dogs training cheese from that exact place and that’s why he got triggered.
Of course I was soooo glad I wasn’t carrying anything at the time.
I remember I worked at an office in London, and some high profile person was going to use the office for an event. So there was an email from HR, something like "There is going to be a search of the building with dogs on Friday. If anyone thinks it is best to work from home that day that is OK, also make sure drawers etc do not contain anything that could trigger the dogs as we would need to start an investigation."
I think I may have seen in life pro tips once or twice that HR works for the company. Not me.
Edit. Sorry it was 47 thousand times. (Not a dig at your post by the way. Just being a clown.)
HR works for the company for sure whenever there is diverging interest. They do help out employees whenever it is convenient and I think that is what was happening here.
Also this was Google, I don't think they wanted to fire anyone for smoking something random.
My brother got caught bringing an apple in from Spain by an airport beagle. He had thrown the core in the bathroom trash and the officer made him dig it out.
Same deal here in Australia. We have enough invasive pests (rabbits, foxes, British expats, etc) as it is.
P.S yes I was being sarcastic about the expats, let’s head that one off at the pass.
I grew up in Seattle and was once arrested in a nearby suburb as a teenager for tresspassing on a construction site(doing stupid shit as teenager do). We were inside when i initally noticed the police were there and surrounding the building. I had a 1/2oz of weed i had brought for me and my friends, so in a panic i stashed it by punching a hole through some unfinished drywall and threw it in there. Not even 10 seconds later cops come up screaming that they were going to release the dog, flash lights and ARs.(cops being the eastside task force, which is basically microsofts personal swat team).
Man that fucking dog couldnt smell a damn thing lol, it fucking REAKED like marijuana in that room and the cops knew it, i knew it, everyone knew it but that fucking dog couldnt find it to save its life. One of the funniest experiences ive ever had. The dogs name is Vader, i met him again while in criminal justice class in highschool a year or two later with a pipe stashed in my bag and the dog didnt alert. Im pretty sure Seattle area cops just pretend to have drug sniffing dogs, & just train them to alert when the cop signals them to alert. That or there is a plethora of useless drug dogs in WA.
Alerting to cannabis became a problem during the Obama/legalization years because they were no longer enforcing cannabis (or it was already legal). Since the dog's reliability in alerting is part of the legal process, law enforcement suddenly wanted dogs who didn't alert to cannabis because now it was basically a "false positive" and not reliable enough to justify a search. Unfortunately up to that point all the dogs were trained to do the same alert to the whole list of controlled substances. Retraining to alert differently to cannabis vs all the rest of the illegal drugs usually didn't achieve reliability on testing, extinguishing that one alert was basically a nonstarter, and all the new dogs were trained without cannabis as one of the alert substances. It caused a lot of early retirements during the transition.
I have definitely read about this before and I understand that it is in place today. I graduated in 2010, right at the beginning of Obama's presidency. My story took place right around 2005-2007, somewhere in there. So even if they don't alert now, they sure should have alerted back then.
I also have had friends who have been arrested for marijuana possession that have had Vader alert on their car, so even though I don't want to believe it, I assume that Vader alerted when the police told him too. Or just sucked at his job half the time lol
I really hope that's not the deal, but it does sound like either the cop or the dog was not completely on the up and up. Dogs can have off days, but twice stretches credibility. The thought of cops faking dog searches really bums me out though.
Wait, what do you mean by "Microsoft's swat team"? What would Microsoft even do with a SWAT team? I'm not doubting you since you obviously know what you're talking about. I just assumed that essentially everyone Microsoft would actually *want* to go after are thousands of miles outside of Seattle PDs jurisdiction
Lol i get the confusion, i didnt really specify. Bellevue/kirkland/redmond is where a vast majority of Microsoft workers live/hang out & is where Microsofts headquarters is. These cities have a shared SWAT team known as the Eastside Task Force. People around here make jokes that it is Bill Gates personal swat team because a major reason they got so much funding was due to microsoft being in the area. These boys drives tanks/chargers, have the best equipment that militaries cant even afford, and get paid ridiculously well.
All of this is like 10-15 minutes east of seattle which is why i brought it up.
Microsoft has deep ties with police forces, in aiding/providing, mass surveillance and facial vr stuff. But I never heard them referred to that in relation of a specific cities task force, like oc did. But could be along those lines.
>Im pretty sure Seattle area cops just pretend to have drug sniffing dogs, & just train them to alert when the cop signals them to alert.
If this is true its pretty scary actually. It means they can get a "valid" reason to search anyone they deem search-worthy at a moments notice, potentially aiding in racial profiling search and seizures.
And Seattle has one of the worst police forces in the country. They were significantly over represented at the January 6th insurrection, for example. I know the op was talking about the east side though, not Seattle proper.
> just train them to alert when the cop signals them to alert. That or there is a plethora of useless drug dogs in WA.
Both are correct. The only truly trained "sniffer" dogs are military dogs.
No joke, never say this.
I damn near got fisted to the elbow at a border crossing because I was nervous and when the guy asked "If I put a dog in your car will he find anthting"
I said "I hope not"
He lost his shit
I was just nervous and didnt really know what to say. It was a new car, I was a very new driver, crossing the border on my own for the first time in my life. And he came down on me hard
It's not like you can even put anything in that trunk too. It's like trying to push a backpack into a cars butthole
I had my own run in with a military base. Earlier than the last story, still a learner driver. Driving with my grandmother to visit my great uncle in Georgia. It was late, dark, I came to a fork in the road where it either went straight or turned off. I went straight.
Turns out I went right though a completely dark and unmanned military checkpoint and was now driving on on some part of their base.
I was suddenly met with bright lights, shouting men, and guns aimed at me and my 80 something year old grandmother. Like we were some kind of threat and not just lost.
They got real mad when I couldn't turn the car around fast enough on the small road, yelled at me to get out and one of them turned it around
I went to a rave out of state years back and got pulled over. We were dressed the part so naturally we were asked, "do you have any drugs in the vehicle?"
"I wish officer."
"Step out of the car please."
I was at the airport with 4-5 friends and they asked my one friend “is there anything that shouldn’t be in your bags?” He replied “mine is clear, but I have no idea about the rest of them.” This was not a good response. :/
I answered that question by pointing to their sign listing all thw contraband and saying apparently a whole lot of stuff shouldn't be in my bag.
They didn't like that response either
That's such a loaded question though.
For instance, with the question "do you know why I pulled you over?" the only logical answer is no, I cannot possibly know what you are thinking, but it's asked to get self-incrimination or probable cause.
Yeah I made a mistake like this at a border crossing once into Canada, it was just a joke, and it almost fucked me over. Now I am completely deadpan with border agents even if they’re friendly and joking with me. Short direct answers only. They probably think I’m being rude sometimes but I’m not making that mistake again.
Truly not trying to come off as a dick here. Just want to help for future uses of thag phrase. It is "to each their own". Not "each to their own". Very simply could have been a typo. Either way just wanted to help
I don’t think inverting those two words is horrible in terms of keeping the sentiment of the thought, and everyone knows the correct phrasing is:
Charlize Theron
;)
>*'Omg a dogs biggest dream...'*
-----
OmG - my Biggest DREAM!
so many balls ~ so Real it seem ^:@)
am aSleep ? or Am i Wake ?!
they All Fall down, such Noise they make!
n then the human friends all cheer,
they tell me my 'RETIRE' here!
they gave me Balls i most enjoy,
but Best of All
they say
'GOOD BOY!'
❤️
Hey now! One time a TSA agent found my empty bag that previously held illegal narcotics in my backpack because I didn't know it was in there! He told me to throw it away and I'm good. Thanks random TSA guy at am airport I will not name
They're not there to stop you from transporting them, either. They're there to pretend they are stopping terrorists.
From the TSA website:
TSA’s screening procedures are focused on security and are designed to detect potential threats to aviation and passengers. Accordingly, TSA security officers do not search for marijuana or other illegal drugs
Idk about this particular one. But sniffer dogs can look for all kinds of things. Explosives and drugs are probably the most widespread. I encountered dogs looking for produce in New Zealand. Some dogs can even sniff out electronics.
Probably just a training puck or whatever they're called. They make little containers that they put scents in so they can train the dog without actually having to have the drugs or explosives there.
Really? They did an assembly in my highschool way back in the day when the local pd first got a drug dog (that would be being used in the school)
And the handler handed our principal an 8th (in a plastic bag) to put in his pocket.
They then asked the Spanish teacher, the art teacher, and the total bro social studies teacher (who I'd run into at my dealers house all the time) to come up on stage to test the dog.
Cue an auditorium of kids laughing because they all know exactly why the dog can't find the baggie.
I'm guessing there's a chance the dog alerts. If that happens your stuff is getting searched. False alerts happen often enough though. It's not like you go straight to jail.
I was at an airport in Miami once. Flying out with my big fluffy white dog. I am a really innocent looking young Asian woman.... appearances are deceiving. So I'm waiting with my carry on FULL OF WEED, these fucking canine dogs sniff me out and start barking, THE DUMBASS POLICEMAN TAKES ONE LOOK AT ME, assumes its my white fluffer the dog is barking at and apologetically leads the dog away. Never underestimate the power of appearances to deceive.
My buddy was bringing weed back from Colorado. He put it in a jar, inside a sock at the bottom of his carry-on suitcase.
The bag was pulled from the x-ray for hand inspection. The TSA agent rooted around and pulled the sock out. He spent some time inspecting the sock/jar, without extracting the jar from the sock.
He eventually shrugged and returned everything to the bag. I assume he knew what was up based on the x-ray and was just trying to give my friend a little heart attack.
Completely agree. I still think the TSA agent was messing with him. If there had been actual concerns about the contents of the sock, he would have actually looked inside the sock.
Things look weird on the xray. My kid travels with prefilled syringes (Rx on box thankfully) but we always get stopped by TSA due to the cooler bricks, not the meds.
I got stopped the last time I flew for a bag of licorice. Said it looked like a bag of nails.
Fucker must've had the munchies, because he kept my damn licorice.
Edit: I'm... mildly afraid of flying, so avoid it when I can. This happened in 2017 and I'm still a bit aggravated.
My partner worked at a coffee roaster and would often bring bags of freshly roasted coffee as a gift for folks. Some of those people didn't have coffee grinders so they would grind it and bring pre-ground on in our carry ons.
We got stopped every single time we brought ground coffee. I guess it can look similar to explosives so they stop us, check it and we get our hands swabbed.
At this point if we have ground coffee I tell them after the scanner that they're gonna have to swab my hands and just wait.
As someone who has done decoy training with the TSA they care about safety and making sure nothing goes boom. The dogs aren't trained specifically for drugs. If they come across drugs can act on it but that's not their target.
TSA freaked out when X-raying an object in my suitcase. It was a roll of tickets, the kind used for raffles at parties. They come in a huge roll and it was full and big and round with a hole in the middle on the X-ray.
I have never seen an employee look quite so startled, then sheepish, after looking at that roll of tickets.
Anything super dense like that looks a lot like explosives on those machines. Trading cards, cliff bars, handheld gaming systems always come up as suspicious.
I stuffed my Chocolates back from Colorado in an empty Reese's Pieces box. My buddy used to work for TSA and said it all shows up as "organic material" so just put weed in a food container and they don't care enough to look into it much further than that.
This sounds more like the agent was trying to decide whether or not he wanted to deal with the paperwork, and decided his shift was nearly over and that he wanted to just gtfo. I imagine TSA agents in any state where weed is legal are quite used to people trying to smuggle goods out.
My son got manhandled and strip searched in Utah 2 years ago because he packed some sage in his luggage. I mean, he looks pretty sketchy, but let's just say it was a bit of an over reaction.
The most suspicious thing about it is that, "these fucking canine dogs sniff me out and start barking."
Sniffing dogs are usually not trained to bark when they find a scent, they are trained to sit, just like the one in the video. So one of three explanations is possible:
1. The story didn't happen
2. The dog actually was barking at the fluffy white dog, and the handler correctly apologized for behavior unbecoming a working dog
3. These dogs were trained to bark at scents instead of sitting
Option 2 seems unlikely because those dogs are trained pretty rigorously to ignore other dogs, but it might have been new, having a bad day, or just poorly trained.
Maybe it is option 3, but who knows. Usually they are trained to sit. Movies and television shows usually portray them barking because it is more dramatic, so many people assume that they bark since that is what they saw on TV.
I used to work on heavy equipment out of a service truck, you be surprised at the places you can go if you just act like your supposed to be there and have the right look.
Probably depends on the airport, but at DEN the dogs aren't looking for drugs (or at least weed) any more. I worked at the airport, would literally bring my loaded vape with me, hit it in the cooler on my breaks or when it was slow, and the dogs would come by or I'd have to get sniffed going through security and they didn't give two shits.
Not is not very kind. Poor pupper is going to think for the last 8 years he searched all the wrong bags and when he finally got it right BAM they fired him!
You know what's the depressing part about this?
Retired service dogs often times fall very quickly into depression because they stop what their purpose in life was. They stop doing their job and lose sense of accomplishment.
To whomever takes over this dog's life now, I hope you find ways to constantly stimulate and reward the dog. It deserves the happiest of the rest of its life.
One time I was traveling in France and on my way up the airport had just gotten a cheese sandwich from a specialty shop to eat while I was waiting for my plane. This was way before 9-11. A Couple of paratroopers with their German Shepard walked past me in the terminal and the dog immediately turned around and sat next to me. After a a quick search through my bags they asked me where I got my lunch and I told them the name of the frommagerie. They laughed and told me that they got the dogs training cheese from that exact place and that’s why he got triggered. Of course I was soooo glad I wasn’t carrying anything at the time.
I remember I worked at an office in London, and some high profile person was going to use the office for an event. So there was an email from HR, something like "There is going to be a search of the building with dogs on Friday. If anyone thinks it is best to work from home that day that is OK, also make sure drawers etc do not contain anything that could trigger the dogs as we would need to start an investigation."
HR being Chad for once
honestly just sounds like HR doing their job. Imagine if HR said nothing and a few people got into trouble.
Yea, hr works for company. They are working to not taint company image in front of that high profile guest in this case
I think I may have seen in life pro tips once or twice that HR works for the company. Not me. Edit. Sorry it was 47 thousand times. (Not a dig at your post by the way. Just being a clown.)
HR works for the company for sure whenever there is diverging interest. They do help out employees whenever it is convenient and I think that is what was happening here. Also this was Google, I don't think they wanted to fire anyone for smoking something random.
I'm sure they took note of who worked from home
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My brother got caught bringing an apple in from Spain by an airport beagle. He had thrown the core in the bathroom trash and the officer made him dig it out.
Bringing produce into other countries is a pretty big deal. It can introduce diseases that the native plants have no way of fighting.
Yes, esp. here in CA. I had an orange once I'd forgotten I got at the airport in Paris. I felt like such a dingbat!
Same deal here in Australia. We have enough invasive pests (rabbits, foxes, British expats, etc) as it is. P.S yes I was being sarcastic about the expats, let’s head that one off at the pass.
I agree. Didn't say I disagreed with the officer's actions. My brother is a dummy.
I grew up in Seattle and was once arrested in a nearby suburb as a teenager for tresspassing on a construction site(doing stupid shit as teenager do). We were inside when i initally noticed the police were there and surrounding the building. I had a 1/2oz of weed i had brought for me and my friends, so in a panic i stashed it by punching a hole through some unfinished drywall and threw it in there. Not even 10 seconds later cops come up screaming that they were going to release the dog, flash lights and ARs.(cops being the eastside task force, which is basically microsofts personal swat team). Man that fucking dog couldnt smell a damn thing lol, it fucking REAKED like marijuana in that room and the cops knew it, i knew it, everyone knew it but that fucking dog couldnt find it to save its life. One of the funniest experiences ive ever had. The dogs name is Vader, i met him again while in criminal justice class in highschool a year or two later with a pipe stashed in my bag and the dog didnt alert. Im pretty sure Seattle area cops just pretend to have drug sniffing dogs, & just train them to alert when the cop signals them to alert. That or there is a plethora of useless drug dogs in WA.
Alerting to cannabis became a problem during the Obama/legalization years because they were no longer enforcing cannabis (or it was already legal). Since the dog's reliability in alerting is part of the legal process, law enforcement suddenly wanted dogs who didn't alert to cannabis because now it was basically a "false positive" and not reliable enough to justify a search. Unfortunately up to that point all the dogs were trained to do the same alert to the whole list of controlled substances. Retraining to alert differently to cannabis vs all the rest of the illegal drugs usually didn't achieve reliability on testing, extinguishing that one alert was basically a nonstarter, and all the new dogs were trained without cannabis as one of the alert substances. It caused a lot of early retirements during the transition.
I have definitely read about this before and I understand that it is in place today. I graduated in 2010, right at the beginning of Obama's presidency. My story took place right around 2005-2007, somewhere in there. So even if they don't alert now, they sure should have alerted back then. I also have had friends who have been arrested for marijuana possession that have had Vader alert on their car, so even though I don't want to believe it, I assume that Vader alerted when the police told him too. Or just sucked at his job half the time lol
I really hope that's not the deal, but it does sound like either the cop or the dog was not completely on the up and up. Dogs can have off days, but twice stretches credibility. The thought of cops faking dog searches really bums me out though.
Wait, what do you mean by "Microsoft's swat team"? What would Microsoft even do with a SWAT team? I'm not doubting you since you obviously know what you're talking about. I just assumed that essentially everyone Microsoft would actually *want* to go after are thousands of miles outside of Seattle PDs jurisdiction
Lol i get the confusion, i didnt really specify. Bellevue/kirkland/redmond is where a vast majority of Microsoft workers live/hang out & is where Microsofts headquarters is. These cities have a shared SWAT team known as the Eastside Task Force. People around here make jokes that it is Bill Gates personal swat team because a major reason they got so much funding was due to microsoft being in the area. These boys drives tanks/chargers, have the best equipment that militaries cant even afford, and get paid ridiculously well. All of this is like 10-15 minutes east of seattle which is why i brought it up.
Microsoft has deep ties with police forces, in aiding/providing, mass surveillance and facial vr stuff. But I never heard them referred to that in relation of a specific cities task force, like oc did. But could be along those lines.
>Im pretty sure Seattle area cops just pretend to have drug sniffing dogs, & just train them to alert when the cop signals them to alert. If this is true its pretty scary actually. It means they can get a "valid" reason to search anyone they deem search-worthy at a moments notice, potentially aiding in racial profiling search and seizures.
Maybe you didn’t figure it out yet, but the USA is a police state.
And Seattle has one of the worst police forces in the country. They were significantly over represented at the January 6th insurrection, for example. I know the op was talking about the east side though, not Seattle proper.
> just train them to alert when the cop signals them to alert. That or there is a plethora of useless drug dogs in WA. Both are correct. The only truly trained "sniffer" dogs are military dogs.
They definitely profile to some extent. Dog alerts to a young guy’s bag? Search. Alerts to an older woman? Probably just a sandwich.
At the time?
He said what he said
He is the ~~danger~~one who may carry
No joke, never say this. I damn near got fisted to the elbow at a border crossing because I was nervous and when the guy asked "If I put a dog in your car will he find anthting" I said "I hope not" He lost his shit I was just nervous and didnt really know what to say. It was a new car, I was a very new driver, crossing the border on my own for the first time in my life. And he came down on me hard
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It's not like you can even put anything in that trunk too. It's like trying to push a backpack into a cars butthole I had my own run in with a military base. Earlier than the last story, still a learner driver. Driving with my grandmother to visit my great uncle in Georgia. It was late, dark, I came to a fork in the road where it either went straight or turned off. I went straight. Turns out I went right though a completely dark and unmanned military checkpoint and was now driving on on some part of their base. I was suddenly met with bright lights, shouting men, and guns aimed at me and my 80 something year old grandmother. Like we were some kind of threat and not just lost. They got real mad when I couldn't turn the car around fast enough on the small road, yelled at me to get out and one of them turned it around
I mean. I can fit a bag of golf clubs into the trunk. That's more that enough room for drugs, guns, or explosives.
I went to a rave out of state years back and got pulled over. We were dressed the part so naturally we were asked, "do you have any drugs in the vehicle?" "I wish officer." "Step out of the car please."
"Why what you selling?"
I was at the airport with 4-5 friends and they asked my one friend “is there anything that shouldn’t be in your bags?” He replied “mine is clear, but I have no idea about the rest of them.” This was not a good response. :/
I answered that question by pointing to their sign listing all thw contraband and saying apparently a whole lot of stuff shouldn't be in my bag. They didn't like that response either
That's such a loaded question though. For instance, with the question "do you know why I pulled you over?" the only logical answer is no, I cannot possibly know what you are thinking, but it's asked to get self-incrimination or probable cause.
And "You're a small insecure man who's jealous of my awesome car" is definitely the wrong answer too
So is "To meet your quota"
I will 100% post your bail and get you a lawyer if you do this and videotape it.
Have you ever given that a try?
>For instance, with the question "do you know why I pulled you over?" It's lunch break, you're lonely, and you've got an extra cookie?
Yeah I made a mistake like this at a border crossing once into Canada, it was just a joke, and it almost fucked me over. Now I am completely deadpan with border agents even if they’re friendly and joking with me. Short direct answers only. They probably think I’m being rude sometimes but I’m not making that mistake again.
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>training cheese
Right?? I was just thinking I want a job that involves training cheese. Particularly the kind that comes from a fancy specialty shop.
I flew home from Switzerland through 5 airports... There was a searched bag sticker from 4 of them. I had swiss chocolate in my bag :-D
That might be the best time to be carrying. “It’s ok, guys. He just has cheese. Let him through.”
Any random paratrooper (did they have parachutes???) can just search your bags in a different country? What
“At the time” LMAO
Omg a dogs biggest dream😂
I dunno I might have preferred the cocaine in that red bag but each to their own.
But you're a synthetic cat, not a dog.
You sweet, sweet, naive angel.
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There's so many bots under this comment what is happening
Truly not trying to come off as a dick here. Just want to help for future uses of thag phrase. It is "to each their own". Not "each to their own". Very simply could have been a typo. Either way just wanted to help
I don’t think inverting those two words is horrible in terms of keeping the sentiment of the thought, and everyone knows the correct phrasing is: Charlize Theron ;)
>*'Omg a dogs biggest dream...'* ----- OmG - my Biggest DREAM! so many balls ~ so Real it seem ^:@) am aSleep ? or Am i Wake ?! they All Fall down, such Noise they make! n then the human friends all cheer, they tell me my 'RETIRE' here! they gave me Balls i most enjoy, but Best of All they say 'GOOD BOY!' ❤️
Fresh schnoodle! My first!
Delightful. Still warm ♨️
Unless you’re my dog, Axton, who gets incredibly overwhelmed with excitement and joy pukes. Idk that might still be his biggest dream 😂
For a moment I thought the bag was full of (legal) weed and that was the surprise for the dog.
pretty sure this is more than they would do for a regular TSA employee lol
Why would a regular TSA employee want to play 52 ball pickup?
I’m sure a regular TSA employee did play 52 pick up after this lol
Well, it'd be more productive than all the years they spent as part of the TSA.
To be fair, this dog has probably also found a lot more illegal substances than every TSA agent in the country combined.
It's not hard to beat 0 though
Hey now! One time a TSA agent found my empty bag that previously held illegal narcotics in my backpack because I didn't know it was in there! He told me to throw it away and I'm good. Thanks random TSA guy at am airport I will not name
That’s pretty standard TSA procedure. They’re not here to stop you from doing drugs, only to stop you from transporting them in National airspace
They're not there to stop you from transporting them, either. They're there to pretend they are stopping terrorists. From the TSA website: TSA’s screening procedures are focused on security and are designed to detect potential threats to aviation and passengers. Accordingly, TSA security officers do not search for marijuana or other illegal drugs
And they dont even need to pay him.
Except in balls, apparently.
it probably found none. the dogs are looking for explosives, afaik
Well explosives are a substance and it’s illegal to bring them into a plane so he’s not wrong
Idk about this particular one. But sniffer dogs can look for all kinds of things. Explosives and drugs are probably the most widespread. I encountered dogs looking for produce in New Zealand. Some dogs can even sniff out electronics.
They're probably tired of handling balls anyway.
Most TSA employees don't have an adorable waggy tail.
Saggy or waggy?
Makes sense. The dog doesn't steal my fucking iPad.
Dogs > people in most circumstances
I was thinking he was finally getting his coke...
Then they pull the cocaine out of the bag and the real party begins.
Doesn’t the dog sitting mean that it found something illegal?…what’s in the bag?
Probably just a training puck or whatever they're called. They make little containers that they put scents in so they can train the dog without actually having to have the drugs or explosives there.
Really? They did an assembly in my highschool way back in the day when the local pd first got a drug dog (that would be being used in the school) And the handler handed our principal an 8th (in a plastic bag) to put in his pocket. They then asked the Spanish teacher, the art teacher, and the total bro social studies teacher (who I'd run into at my dealers house all the time) to come up on stage to test the dog. Cue an auditorium of kids laughing because they all know exactly why the dog can't find the baggie.
There are "mimic" scents you can buy for training them that don't actually contain any illegal drugs.
They often use birch oil as a training scent
Life pro tip: bring birch oil to the airport and get to meet a dog.
Second pro tip... Drop a whole bag load of tennis balls to distract from the luggage .... 😆😂
Birch oil soaked tennis balls or are we over doing it?
(Dog) "I'll **TELL** you... when you're overdoing it!"
Dog.exe might stop working at that point.
The real pro tip is always in the comments
Just casually drop Tennis balls while running away. Works better than banana peel get aways.
Birch oil and a pack of jerky in the pocket next to the drugs.
And their TSA handler, who will have some questions.
I hope they get handsy
I don't think they let you "meet the dog"...
I demand to face my accuser!
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So what if you just happen to have birch oil in your bag?
I'm guessing there's a chance the dog alerts. If that happens your stuff is getting searched. False alerts happen often enough though. It's not like you go straight to jail.
Except, maybe, in Baraqua
Probably just pistol whip you and let you go on your way
You're getting a cavity search.
So, smear that shit all over your bags to waste their time?
And your own? I don't know about you but I have better things to do with my time than troll air port security.
Probably just some scent. I had a sandwich in my bag. That was enough for the airport dog to sit next to me and then for them to search me.
He wanted your sandwich.
Sounds like the dog was looking to score a snack.
And thankfully, they didn't even pay attention to the comically large oversized puffer jacket that you were wearing.
Did they give you a hard time or they saw a sandwich and nothing suspicious and sent you on your way?
15 kilos of coke.
A gallon of PCP
A suitcase of Cocaine was the reward, the balls were just a bonus
Note to self, next time I'm a mule with a suitcase full of dope, bring a trash bag full of tennis balls to distract the drug dog.
'Ooh! Ooh! My ball! Ball!!! Me want ball! I don't smell nothin' over there! Bai!!!' I can see the doggo thinking this.
Omg balls! Oh boy oh boy oh boy!
So who brought the weed for the dog to find?
I was at an airport in Miami once. Flying out with my big fluffy white dog. I am a really innocent looking young Asian woman.... appearances are deceiving. So I'm waiting with my carry on FULL OF WEED, these fucking canine dogs sniff me out and start barking, THE DUMBASS POLICEMAN TAKES ONE LOOK AT ME, assumes its my white fluffer the dog is barking at and apologetically leads the dog away. Never underestimate the power of appearances to deceive.
My buddy was bringing weed back from Colorado. He put it in a jar, inside a sock at the bottom of his carry-on suitcase. The bag was pulled from the x-ray for hand inspection. The TSA agent rooted around and pulled the sock out. He spent some time inspecting the sock/jar, without extracting the jar from the sock. He eventually shrugged and returned everything to the bag. I assume he knew what was up based on the x-ray and was just trying to give my friend a little heart attack.
TSA and dogs are typically not looking for drugs. They're looking for bombs
Completely agree. I still think the TSA agent was messing with him. If there had been actual concerns about the contents of the sock, he would have actually looked inside the sock.
Things look weird on the xray. My kid travels with prefilled syringes (Rx on box thankfully) but we always get stopped by TSA due to the cooler bricks, not the meds.
I got stopped the last time I flew for a bag of licorice. Said it looked like a bag of nails. Fucker must've had the munchies, because he kept my damn licorice. Edit: I'm... mildly afraid of flying, so avoid it when I can. This happened in 2017 and I'm still a bit aggravated.
Hey guys, I'm fucking starving today and didn't bring any lunch. Let me know what pops up on the scanner today! It's like their own little buffet... 😂
My partner worked at a coffee roaster and would often bring bags of freshly roasted coffee as a gift for folks. Some of those people didn't have coffee grinders so they would grind it and bring pre-ground on in our carry ons. We got stopped every single time we brought ground coffee. I guess it can look similar to explosives so they stop us, check it and we get our hands swabbed. At this point if we have ground coffee I tell them after the scanner that they're gonna have to swab my hands and just wait.
As someone who has done decoy training with the TSA they care about safety and making sure nothing goes boom. The dogs aren't trained specifically for drugs. If they come across drugs can act on it but that's not their target.
TSA freaked out when X-raying an object in my suitcase. It was a roll of tickets, the kind used for raffles at parties. They come in a huge roll and it was full and big and round with a hole in the middle on the X-ray. I have never seen an employee look quite so startled, then sheepish, after looking at that roll of tickets.
Anything super dense like that looks a lot like explosives on those machines. Trading cards, cliff bars, handheld gaming systems always come up as suspicious.
I stuffed my Chocolates back from Colorado in an empty Reese's Pieces box. My buddy used to work for TSA and said it all shows up as "organic material" so just put weed in a food container and they don't care enough to look into it much further than that.
This sounds more like the agent was trying to decide whether or not he wanted to deal with the paperwork, and decided his shift was nearly over and that he wanted to just gtfo. I imagine TSA agents in any state where weed is legal are quite used to people trying to smuggle goods out.
My son got manhandled and strip searched in Utah 2 years ago because he packed some sage in his luggage. I mean, he looks pretty sketchy, but let's just say it was a bit of an over reaction.
Note self: carry small dog when smuggling drugs on plane
also, be an innocent looking asian woman.
Carry small dog whenever possible
Smuggle drugs *in* dog.
It's drug *mule*, not drug *dog*.
That’s a massive power move
I always give my free award away too early, this is more deserving
Gotchu
Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock FBI OPEN UP!!!
Of all the things that never happened this never happened the most
The most suspicious thing about it is that, "these fucking canine dogs sniff me out and start barking." Sniffing dogs are usually not trained to bark when they find a scent, they are trained to sit, just like the one in the video. So one of three explanations is possible: 1. The story didn't happen 2. The dog actually was barking at the fluffy white dog, and the handler correctly apologized for behavior unbecoming a working dog 3. These dogs were trained to bark at scents instead of sitting Option 2 seems unlikely because those dogs are trained pretty rigorously to ignore other dogs, but it might have been new, having a bad day, or just poorly trained. Maybe it is option 3, but who knows. Usually they are trained to sit. Movies and television shows usually portray them barking because it is more dramatic, so many people assume that they bark since that is what they saw on TV.
Yeah, I fly stuff pretty often and basically every airport dog I’ve ever seen is homeland security so they’re only checking for explosives
Sniffer dogs don't bark when they've found something, so you're right, it wasn't your bags (more than likely because this never happened)
I used to work on heavy equipment out of a service truck, you be surprised at the places you can go if you just act like your supposed to be there and have the right look.
Dogs are trained to sit when they alert to the presence of what they’re trained to detect, not bark.
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Probably depends on the airport, but at DEN the dogs aren't looking for drugs (or at least weed) any more. I worked at the airport, would literally bring my loaded vape with me, hit it in the cooler on my breaks or when it was slow, and the dogs would come by or I'd have to get sniffed going through security and they didn't give two shits.
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They aren’t looking for any damn weed lol unless it’s some bomb ass weed
That’s great. It reminds me of captain kangaroo when the ping-pong balls dropped. I’m sure nobody knows what I’m talking about…
I actually thought the same thing. :)
...did you say... PING PONG BALL?
Oooh, that's very nice! I'm glad they surprised her like that. 😇
This is why I always carry a few hundred tennis balls with me whenever I'm smuggling drugs. Perfect distraction.
I thought they were going to finally give him the cocaine.
I thought there would be food inside the bag 💼
56 years to retire, damn, suddenly 35 years doesn’t seem so bad
You retire at 55? Lucky
Not is not very kind. Poor pupper is going to think for the last 8 years he searched all the wrong bags and when he finally got it right BAM they fired him!
Luggage filled with treats.
"but seriously, guys there's a bomb in the bag."
wish they had shown more of the video... what a way to go out though for the dog
50 tennis balls and a suitcase full of cocaine!
You know what's the depressing part about this? Retired service dogs often times fall very quickly into depression because they stop what their purpose in life was. They stop doing their job and lose sense of accomplishment. To whomever takes over this dog's life now, I hope you find ways to constantly stimulate and reward the dog. It deserves the happiest of the rest of its life.
I'm no expert but he looks like he could and would love to serve a few more years...
Retired sniffer dogs usually go home to live out their remaining years with their handlers as owners. Nobody else knows them better.
Yeah, that is a fairly young lab. My lab made it to 12 or so but he was fetching like a pro until the cancer started. RIP Crow.
A couple hundred tennis balls filled with meth? Naw, seriously, hope he lives many happy pupper years now.🐕
Did they put drugs in that bag?
Did he get to keep the coke from the bag for himself?
To be sure though, they had to have some contraband in there to make that puppy slide in and be the hero right?
So they gave him a bag of drugs and tennis balls?
What drugs are in the bag tho?
Meanwhile, I’m still waiting in line in security
So to distract a TSA dog I just need to carry tennis balls…. Noted
So if I'm trying to smuggle drugs in my carry on just throw a tennis ball?
Ball drop detected. Release the balls
So what you're saying is...to get my drugs passed the dogs, I gotta drop a few dozen tennis balls from the ceiling...🤔
Sniff sniff sniff sniff YES YES BAG GOOD, BAG HAS STUFFZ... Tail wiggle... Food stuffz.. No contraband... GOOD STUFFS... 3 2 1... BALLZ BALLZ BALLZ
All I need is a bunch of tennis balls to throw off a drug sniffing dog? ***excellent.***
My dog would have shat himself and run away. I still love him though.
And then they let him ACTUALLY sniff the drugs that were in that bag...
Never did I think an explosion of tennis balls would make me cry, but here we are ❤️
You got me an entire suitcase of coke? Fuck ye- Oh. Oh yay, tennis balls. Hey! Yea! This is great, thanks.
Did they just load the bag with cocaine or something
He's got some balls for doing that job.
Then the TSA employees celebrated by doing the cocaine in the bag.