If you live or have ever traveled in countries where petty theft is conducted openly on busy streets, you know it’s important to take protective measures against pickpockets. It is never all the comfortable to be the one person with the travel belt screaming “tourist” to every person when you simply make an effort to keep your money and identification safe. Shashitwear is supposedly comfortable and is secure. Law officials are worried that the convenience of a hidden compartment in underwear might lead to more drug trafficking.
Stashitwear hides drugs and weapons
The Wall Street Journal reports that New York police have found that drug dealers are now using Stashitwear to conceal small amounts of narcotics and small caliber firearms. Police Capt. Vincent Patti of Brooklyn New York explains that they have to search suspects better now. The customers of Stashitwear, as outlined by owner Phillip Scott who’s 55, never gave “even a hint at illegal activity for their purchases.”
Scott’s answer is not enough for Patti.
“A lot of drugs or a small .38 or .22 caliber handgun… They’re not advertising these things for drug dealers but they have to know they’re going to be used by some people who break the law.”
Stashing things with some style
Boxers to thongs are offered by all of these secret-compartment underwear companies similar to Florida-based Stashitwear. A wholesale purchase is much cheaper, says Scott, than the $14 paid for one pair. The waistband has an eight inch opening where the pocket, up to 12 inches deep depending on the size of the garment, could be accessed.
The pocket runs from front to back, which means, according to Stashitwear, that this “basically makes your whole crotch area a secret place for your valuables.”
Stashitwear site changed by Scott
Scott had a photo of himself on the Stashitwear site in a country outfit to show personality. Since the Wall Street Journal contacted him following NYPD concern over the product, Scott put on sunglasses and business dress clothes for a new photo. Thankfully, the hidden compartment underwear remains the exact same.
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Wall Street Journal
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Oh what is all the hype about? Just orders yours today at http://www.Stashitwear.com and make me really happy. Seriously, if someone asks to buy them for illegal purposes then of course I don’t sell to them. If someone contacts me and says ” I want to purchase a pair of those great Stashitwear so I can smuggle 100 pounds of Cocaine across the border” and i sell them to the undercover agent then I will be immediately arrested,charged with conspiricy to smuggles 100 pounds of cocaine, sentenced to life in prison and all because I sold a pair of underwear. But just because someone uses them for something illegal is their responsibility not mine. There are now secret pocket on shoes, belts, hats, pants, shorts, socks, bras, and now underwear. At least you have a lot to choose from.
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