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~ the used car movie |
Copyright Lars Olson 2017
A man buys a used car at an auction. Like all auction deals there is not much to learn or know about the car or the previous owner.
Turns out this car was owned by a drug dealer, who, no one knew was a drug dealer. He got away with his transport of drugs and did not get caught. The reason the car was at the auction was because the owner of it died (or insert reason here: end of lease, repossessed).
As there was no history of the previous owner transporting drugs, if the car was ever noted in the future for suspicion, it certainly wouldn't be the previous owner to blame as he had a clear record and no history of criminal activity. The car also had several previous owners, complicating things further.
The man bought the car specifically to take a road trip to the US border and cross it. The car was sporty, touring model (or similar), and suited a long drive for a long trip..
When he gets to the border he gets randomly checked up close with scrutiny. For whatever reason, even the sniff dogs are pulled out just as a random check, as it is their protocol these days to be more strict at the border and to do more random checks.
The dogs don't initially find anything. But after a while one dog is suspicious. Eventually the dog starts going nuts at a certain area of the car, but there is nothing there. The human inspectors look but see nothing and wonder what the dog is going crazy about.
They have no choice but to cut into the car metal and see if there is anything. After they cut the metal they find indeed there are drugs packed secretly inside the innards of the car that no one would normally check. Upon further inspection after they seize the vehicle they find the car is extremely packed with drugs in very strange locations - he even has drugs inside the oil pan itself, which is an over sized pan. Obviously the person who transports drugs via this car wants to maximize the amount of grams of drugs per trip to reduce risk (the less trips and the more grams per trip taken, the more money made).
The current owner of the car who bought the car from the auction is immediately blamed and is the primary suspect. After all he owns the car, therefore the drugs are his.
So his one road trip to the US turns into a night mare as now he is guilty of serious crime, that he is not actually guilty of, but, is believed to be.
It is very hard to prove a previous owner is suspect because he was never caught in his trips to the US. He did not do the job for very long and the car got auctioned before he made enough trips to that would get him caught. But now the current owner is caught, for doing nothing wrong, as drugs were left packed in the car for a trip the previous owner (drug dealer) never completed.
Eventually it gets sorted out when the current owner finds a special tool inside the car under the seat with the previous owners fingerprint and inscribed initials on it. This tool opens one of the secret areas where the drugs are stored (special custom torx like tool or similar, a home made tool by the previous owner). With the previous owner's fingerprints on it and no finger prints of the current owner, the evidence finally points to the previous owner being suspect (who is now deceased). However this tool is not found for a long time. The tool is attached to some special area of the seat that no one would think of checking or it looks like part of the car itself as it's black and the seat frame black (almost camoflauge tool).
They ripped out the seats during seizure to check all areas for drugs but the tool didn't show then as they were mostly checking the padding of the seats and foam for secret drug storage areas. Plus they were looking for drugs, it's not as if they were looking for some special tool - their focus was on drugs - they just removed any special bolts with bolt extractors. They could cut the car up and didn't need a special tool so had no reason to be looking for one.
The drugs themselves had literally no fingerprints on them as the previous owner was very meticulous about protocol: all drugs were handled with latex gloves and never bare hands used. However, the tool itself, he did touch, by accident or mistake when he had to run to the bathroom and took his gloves off and touched the tool without realizing his fingerprints were left on it (when people are in a rush, i.e. to go to the bathroom, they do silly things as their main focus is not pissing their pants).
The custom tool was basically the shape of an allen key and not noticeable when it is wedged in a black seat frame of the same color... in fact it could be part of the car itself for some purpose in emergency, so again the inspectors did not notice this after ripping the car apart. Just a black piece of metal camouflaged to the seat frame metal. It was not just an allen key though but a custom tool that fit a custom screw.
Why use a touring sports car to transport drugs though? a refridgeration truck would be much better or a cube van with a secret compartment, or a semi truck?
Well a sports car with an old guy driving it, is the perfect cover... A sports car that guzzles gas, and, therefore has a large fuel tank. What's in that fuel tank? that large fuel tank that is sealed which dogs cannot smell (and gas odors would overtake anyway). But how does one get drugs out of a gas tank if gas tanks have no openings that are easy to access? just small fuel pump opening. Well, that's where you pull the extremely long sausage bag of drugs out...
The drug transporter (old man previous owner of car) was at the grocery store looking at some garlic that's packed in sausage like bags (elongated). It inspires him for a method to feed drugs into the gas tank without making the gas tank look too suspicious with a modified opening port. Older touring cars with large gas tanks often had a fuel level sensor, at the top of the tank, that offered a hole in to the gas tank. This hole is big enough to feed drugs through if it's in a really elongated narrow bag. Other areas of feeding drugs through could be the bottom fuel pump although sometimes they have small feed holes not large enough to feed much through. At any rate the old man had it all figured out and picked specific car for a specific purpose.
Cars with large gas tanks, i.e. 80 Litres, for example: Some mercedes 1970's cars. There are more.
Complications in the story: what year does this take place? This is arbitrary to an extent, however it would have to take place in a such a year that they did not have super advanced technology to search for drugs so that the drug dealer did not get caught. Technologies used today would have to be researched if this car would even go past the border. But this is an easy complication to fix: find a year where it is definitely plausible.
Special tool in movie: could be a tool in the shape of the mercedes logo instead of a phillips star head, or some other special shape. Depends on car used. If mercedes is used then a tool that looks like the mercedes logo would be clever.
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