# You find a brick of Cocaine. Now what? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 17, 2005, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474 "2005-11-17T13:03:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/21 "2005-11-17T15:18:21Z")
I heard something like this actually happened in Corpus Christi. Some people found an enormous amount of cocaine in the long unused second floor of an old drugstore. Anyway, my answer, don’t even touch it, call 911 immediately. A kilo of cocaine is a metric ton of grief nobody needs. ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/22 "2005-11-17T15:22:51Z")
Personally, I’d sell my farm in Texas and buy one in Peru. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/23 "2005-11-17T15:57:06Z")
Knowing my luck, I would be busted for possession (plus I don’t need to be more hyper–coke does not interest me)–so I would call the cops, without touching it at all. I think I would do the same with any substance found in the gutter or alley–god knows where it’s been. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/24 "2005-11-17T16:05:55Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Leave it where you found it. The original owners are quite likely looking for it. If you try going into the coke business yourself or try to sell their property back to them, they may well decide to eliminate you. Unless you are already a part of that life, you have no idea how to survive a ruthless environment like illegal drug sales. You’ll end up robbed by customers or other dealers for sure and possibly killed as well. A-fuckin’-men. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/25 "2005-11-17T16:09:24Z")
I’d take it and hide it away somewhere safe (safer than a ditch by the road, certainly). Cocaine is a (relatively) rare resource, for which there is a large demand. You never know when a brick of the stuff will come in handy. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/26 "2005-11-17T16:23:18Z")
A large brick is worth what, $10,000? Is that worth a 20 year sentence for cocaine trafficking? Some states have laws that strict for that large an ammount. Or is it worth a death sentence if the owners com looking for you? Walk away or do the responsible thing and call it in, anonymously if you wish. You don’t want some little kids to get their hands on it. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/27 "2005-11-17T17:29:53Z")
I’d have just _One_ line… The coke riddle. What comes after a line? ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/28 "2005-11-17T17:33:10Z")
I see quite a few people here would call the police. I guess I would be worried that if I called the police I would somehow be charged with posession… Not that I’ve done anything wrong here… I have heard one too many stories of corrupt police (or police that simply are on a power trip and simply wouldn’t believe me). If it were me, I would just leave it and go on about my business. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/29 "2005-11-17T17:36:17Z")
I’d leave it alone. Odds are, there’s nothing else I could do that would end well. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/30 "2005-11-17T17:38:58Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > I’d have just _One_ line… > > The coke riddle. What comes after a line? 70,000 more? What do I win? ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/31 "2005-11-17T17:46:12Z")
> [@](#): > > The coke riddle. What comes after a line? A crack whore? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/32 "2005-11-17T17:57:54Z")
Party time! Seriously, I call the cops (and look around to see if anyone’s watching or if anyone could have dropped it, because come on, nobody just _leaves_ a brick of really expensive cocaine lying around…) ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/33 "2005-11-17T18:10:39Z")
About a year ago, my half-brother and his sister were walking to school and found a large box of Mary-jane on the side of the road. This is in Humboldt County, CA, and not an unforseeable circumstance. It seems it fell off the back of a truck hauling a good deal of pot. They took it to my dad, and he called the police to have them come and pick it up. The police kept asking questions like “Mind if we have a look around?”. My dad was like, “You think _I_ grew this stuff? Why the hell would I give it to you?”. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/34 "2005-11-17T19:10:29Z")
Drive away and call the cops from a payphone. I wouldn’t want some kid to find it, but I also wouldn’t want to deal with the whole situation. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/35 "2005-11-17T19:19:04Z")
1. Profit. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/36 "2005-11-17T19:39:38Z")
If you’re inclined to try the profit angle you need to be thinking Risk Reward Unless you’re plugged into the drug culture most dealers would look askance at Joe Sixpack or Harriet Homeowner approaching him with a “found” brick of cocaine. Getting street value is out of the question, selling it locally or even regionally is out of the question as the original owners will be likely looking for you and the grapevine may lead them back to you if you sell it. So first you have to find dangerous people in unfamilar areas and travel to those locations. To get any kind of money for it the buyer will have to establish the quality which means at some point you’re going to have to be dealing face to face with very dangerous people who would be just as inclined as not to take away your new booty and possibly kill you to keep you quiet. So let’s say realistically you might be able to get $10,000 - $20,000 for this if you make all the right hook ups and you still would be liable to be arrested later on if one of the purchasing dealers gives you up as a supplier. For most middle class people 10K is about 25 percent (or less) of their annual after tax income. would you risk jail, a possible criminal record, incarceration, death, potential harm to your loved ones, endless uncertainly about being fingered and being ass raped etc. for a measly 10K. I wouldn’t. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/37 "2005-11-17T20:01:48Z")
( I was kidding) ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/38 "2005-11-17T20:19:39Z")
Something similar to this once happened to a friend of mine from high school. He was walking along a beach in Florida with another dude and found an entire bale of marijuana washed up on the shore. There was no one else around so they quickly tried to transport the bale to their car (I think they tried to cover it with a shirt or something). As they were stuffing into the trunk of the car, the cops drove up and busted them. It turns out the whole thing had been a trap from the start. The cops were leaving the bale, watching for people to take the bait, and then busting them. My friend got capped for possession with intent to sell and did 6 months in county (he had priors). With that story in mind, I would not even attempt to touch the coke. The most I would do is make a phone call to the cops and tell them where it was but I would be too paranoid to even risk the appearnce that I was trying to take possession of the coke myself. Plus, I’m not into coke anyway so I wouldn’t be tempted on that score. I’d be a lot more tempted by pot or acid. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/39 "2005-11-17T20:41:42Z")
I unwrapped a large quantity of morphine that had been sent through the mail once. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474/40 "2005-11-17T21:14:46Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > Something similar to this once happened to a friend of mine from high school. He was walking along a beach in Florida with another dude and found an entire bale of marijuana washed up on the shore. There was no one else around so they quickly tried to transport the bale to their car (I think they tried to cover it with a shirt or something). As they were stuffing into the trunk of the car, the cops drove up and busted them. It turns out the whole thing had been a trap from the start. The cops were leaving the bale, watching for people to take the bait, and then busting them. My friend got capped for possession with intent to sell and did 6 months in county (he had priors). > > With that story in mind, I would not even attempt to touch the coke. The most I would do is make a phone call to the cops and tell them where it was but I would be too paranoid to even risk the appearnce that I was trying to take possession of the coke myself. > > Plus, I’m not into coke anyway so I wouldn’t be tempted on that score. I’d be a lot more tempted by pot or acid. How is that not entrapment? How could they prove the people weren’t taking it straight to the police station? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-find-a-brick-of-cocaine-now-what/331474.md?page=3)