Quote from: Limetless on August 13, 2012, 10:21 pmQuote from: pine on August 13, 2012, 07:58 pmPine is sensing profit making potential with her inquisitive capitalist nose.Maybe the technologies we're using to traverse the mail system can be applied to the wider world in the form of cool 'odorless bag accessory' for ladies and special 'wicked drug smuggler' briefcase for the men.Fashion! Practicality! Profit! Those are our watchwords! :DYou could also use that to double up as an emergency toilet if there was none around, I could do a shit in a briefcase and nobody would smell a thing..... 8)Ye gods, my smuggler accessory factory shall not be hiring Lim at any rate, it'd be a public relations disaster :oQuote from: Raoul Duke on August 14, 2012, 10:31 amdrug dogs are usually trained to sniff out one type of drug - perhaps those you walked past were coke dogs?No. I mean yes, perhaps they weren't trained on marijuana but there is nothing to stop a drug dog from learning many odors. In fact it would be fairly unusual if they were trained on only a single compound because they are not exactly cheap to train. The reason why the dogs didn't alert on weed could simply be that so many people smoke weed or are in contact with those who do that the set is too large to combat, more than likely they were checking for piperonal instead (MDMA odor mimic used to train dogs). K-9 units are always perpetually under threat from budget cuts. There is a strong bias against them because canines lack human vocal cords and in particular their handlers are rarely politically astute even though they are often the best police officers when combined with their furry pals in actuality. K-9 are the strongest tactical tool the police have bar none, new police cars and boots on the ground might look impressive, but its the dogs that get real results. I would say a fair majority of humans don't genuinely earn their keep in the force, but the four legged friends vastly overcompensate for human weaknesses. Tell me the number of police has increased by 10x in a city and I'll roll my eyes, but tell me there's 10 more K-9 units and you'll have my undivided attention.I like drug dogs, it's nice to have an intelligent adversary (and cuddly!) for once. I believe strongly in meritocracy after all. By Iron, Iron itself is sharpened.