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Where the kids hide contraband, Share your kids
favorite hiding places!
webmaster Mar 8 2005, 09:26 PM Post #1
Here is a topic we have not discussed yet, the hiding of contraband.
For those that don't know what contraband is; it is anything that is not
allowed in a program. Contraband can be anything from unauthorized music and
reading material to drugs and alcohol.
With my kids their favorite place to hide stuff was:
In the pockets of the clothes hanging in the closets
Under the bottom drawer in their dresser
In holes cut in the seats of the van
In someone elses room
Feel free to share your kids' favorite stashes
prsthelrd Mar 12 2005, 03:23 PM Post #2
this i know from experience. in there nasty dirtiest laundry
jayandangie Mar 13 2005, 12:47 AM Post #3
*In books. especially school and library books.
prsthelrd Mar 16 2005, 08:38 PM Post #4
more
behind things they have pinned or hung up!!
brims of a hat
soles of shoes
I have known some to record over approved tapes
webmaster Mar 16 2005, 08:56 PM Post #5
We had kids in our group home in Wyoming that would hollow out a place under
the insoles in their sneakers. They got away with this for a long time before
we learned that spot.
They would also hide things almost out in the open, like in the houseplants or
with the nick-nacks in the living room. I always thought that was pretty clever
to hide stuff right under our nose.
prsthelrd Mar 22 2005, 09:23 AM Post #6
I have had a few of our girls put two cds in there discmans so that if you look
inside you see the top one not the one playing
CaringCouple Mar 23 2005, 04:30 AM Post #7
If you REALLY want to know you need a few bucks and a good sales pitch.
Find a kid in another house/cottage being discharged that will not be back that
has no relationship to any of your kids......
Offer him $5 for every hiding place he finds for you.
It will be money well spent.
- seams of mattresses slit for items to be slipped into
- The legs of furniture (turn a chair or table upside down and remove the
caster or wheel and you'll be surprised at the room inside.
- Inside electronic Devices / "Hide a Key" boxes attached to speaker magnets
- taped to undersides of headboard rails
- under rocks or in the rootsof trees in the yard
- inside of hubcaps
- inside the access doors of appliances
- attics, A/C vents, behind electrical plates and wall switches
- The corners on the underside of boxsprings
- inside lightbulbs that are not working
- inside of the tracking mechanism that makes up the top section of miniblinds
where the strings go.
youthdevelopment Mar 24 2005, 08:37 AM Post #8
Why do kids feel the need to hide stuff at all?
george Mar 24 2005, 08:50 PM Post #9
QUOTE (youthdevelopment @ Mar 24 2005, 08:37 AM)
Why do kids feel the need to hide stuff at all?
Probably because they feel the need to have things that the program and society
feel are bad for them. i.e. drugs, alcohol, tobacco, weapons, music that
promotes violence, racism, sex, etc.
jayandangie Mar 25 2005, 06:25 PM Post #10
I hate to add this one, but it is a hiding location.
*body cavities
oldhouseparents Mar 28 2005, 06:25 PM Post #11
We've also found contraband in soap dispensers in the bathroom, the lining of
jackets, in the tank of the toilet and in community areas, such as the common
living room, under the lamp base. That was really good because we had a tough
time figuring out who it belonged to. One of our more creative, wimpey guys
decided to start jogging every evening. When we noticed that he spent too much
time "resting" down the road, my husband checked it out and found his
cigarettes hidden in the newspaper box. Another industrious dude hid drugs in a
pile of horse manure. The problem was that he got in trouble and was in the
counselors office and wasn't there when everyone went to clean up the manure.
prsthelrd Mar 30 2005, 08:34 AM Post #12
I remembered another one. We had two stories and our boys would hide things in
the gutters above there windows.
Night security actually caught boys on the roof of their house smoking ine
night. fortunately it was not mine
davidpond1 Apr 27 2005, 12:51 PM Post #13
They hide ciggs in an empty cd case; and they take a bic pen and take out the
ink refil and load the empty bic shell with pills and put the cap back on and
it appears to be a normal pen.
Lady Incredible May 6 2005, 06:44 PM Post #14
Yep, kids are creative!
I've had them bring them in in body cavities before
The girls are bad at hiding things in their bras because they know we are not
allowed to search them.
catch Jun 5 2005, 04:15 PM Post #15
Inside the toliet paper roll that the toliet paper goes on to
edx0487 Jul 6 2005, 05:59 AM Post #16
Doing some deep cleaning this week I was suprised to find nothing hidden in the
air conditioning vent as it is a huge space...
I guess we must just be lucky with our girls as the only thing we've had to
confiscate is mobile phones!
wycouple Jul 20 2005, 04:52 PM Post #17
-under couch cushions
-between the box springs and mattress
-vents in the van
-in game boxes rarely used on the shelf in the rec room
-little altoid tins
prsthelrd Jul 29 2005, 07:33 AM Post #18
Advanced Member
QUOTE (wycouple @ Jul 20 2005, 04:52 PM)
-in game boxes rarely used on the shelf in the rec room
Surprisingly I have never thought of this one
basshoe2 Aug 4 2005, 03:10 PM Post #19
We also had some guys hide contraband in their deodorant containers. They would
take out the top that contained the deodorant and put cigarettes in and replace
the top. We thought it was strange that some of the guys always wanted to take
deodorant along to town and school. My husband & I have been in residential
care for over 12 years and we have seen alot of strange hiding places.
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