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* RealLife had the "Coffin Connection", heroin was smuggled in coffins using false bottoms. The man was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lucas_(drug_dealer) Frank Lucas]] and his crimes inspired both the film ''Film/AmericanGangster'' and a Literature/StephaniePlum novel.
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* RealLife had the "Coffin Connection", heroin was smuggled in coffins using false bottoms. The man was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lucas_(drug_dealer) Frank Lucas]] and his crimes inspired both several of the film ''Film/AmericanGangster'' and a Literature/StephaniePlum novel.above-mentioned examples.
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* ''Last Rites'', a short story by Creator/EllestonTrevor, has Literature/{{Quiller}} discover that an old enemy has planted a tactical nuclear weapon on board the [=QE2=]. There's no time to search the ship before it goes off, but when a ship's nurse tells him that the bomber paid his last respects to a man who died on board, they arrange a rapid BurialAtSea and sail away at maximum speed.
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* ''Literature/UniversalMonsters'': A variant in book 4, wherein Joe discovers that the Egyptian exhibit (containing the sarcophagus and mummy of an ancient Egyptian queen, along with the rest of her tomb's contents) includes an ornate couch, and that its legs each hide an ancient figurine containing the four pieces of the Scroll of Thoth that Imhotep needs to revive her.
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* Beyond the Grave (formerly Brandon Heat) of ''VideoGame/{{Gungrave}}'' totes around a very fancy coffin chained to his back. At first it looks like it's just part of his zombie aesthetic, being a Deadman and all. However, it actually hides an obscene number of heavy machine guns and rocket launchers, and he can use these to perform "Demolition Shots." Though having no attachment to it at first, Grave later decides to name it the 'Death Hauler.'
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* ''Film/TheFastestGunAlive'': After [[FakingTheDead faking George's death]], the townsfolk place his gun inside the coffin full of stones they bury in his grave.
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* In the ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "Kill the Messenger", Perlmutter had a coffin of a woman who died years ago exhumed to determine cause of death, but the coffin contained nothing but sandbags. Castle started to leave, commenting that it seemed like a waste of a high-end casket, [[EurekaMoment then turned around and suggested that some high-end caskets have a small drawer in the lid]]. Perlmutter found the drawer, which contained a photo of the victim with a prominent senatorial candidate from the '70s. This led to Beckett and Castle uncovering a scandal which led to the woman's murder and helped them finally get justice for the victim.
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* In the ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' episode "Kill the Messenger", Perlmutter had a coffin of a woman who died years ago exhumed to determine cause of death, but the coffin contained nothing but sandbags. Castle started to leave, commenting that it seemed like a waste of a high-end casket, [[EurekaMoment then turned around and suggested that some high-end caskets have a small drawer in the lid]]. Perlmutter found the drawer, which contained a photo of the victim with a prominent senatorial candidate from the '70s. This led to Beckett and Castle uncovering a scandal which led to the woman's murder and helped them finally get justice for the victim.
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* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'': In the season 2 episode "Battle of the Century", Nucky Thompson and Owen Sleater travel to Ireland, ostensibly to bury Nucky's recently deceased father in the land of his birth. In actuality, Nucky's father is being buried in Atlantic City, and the coffin is actually carrying a batch of Thompson submachine guns that Nucky plans to trade to the IRA in exchange for Irish whiskey that he can sell in Atlantic City.
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* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In "Mr. Monk vs. The Cobra", Chris Downey, having stolen some jewels and needing a place to stash them before he was caught, put them in Sonny Chow's casket and "framed" him six years later to get the coffin dug up.
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* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In The motive for the murder in "Mr. Monk vs. The Cobra", Cobra". In 1998, career thief Chris Downey, having stolen Downey robbed a courier of some very expensive diamonds, and assaulted an off-duty cop during the getaway. He went to the cemetery where he worked and hid the jewels and needing a place to stash them before he was caught, put them in the casket of recently deceased martial arts star Sonny Chow, who was scheduled to be buried the next day. In the absence of the jewels, the police couldn't link Downey to the robbery, and he only got convicted of the assault. When he made parole six years later, he went back to the cemetery with the intention of digging Chow's casket and "framed" him six years later coffin up to get the diamonds back, only to find that while he was in prison, a fan club had erected a monument there that he couldn't move by himself. So Downey proceeded to kill an author who wrote a tell-all book about Chow, and planted evidence to implicate Chow in the murder so that the police would get a court order to have Chow's coffin dug up.exhumed.
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Coffins make handy places to store items other than corpses. After all, most people are a trifle squeamish about opening something that might contain a dead body. This trope is a when a coffin, sarcophagus or other container intended for human remains is used to conceal something else.
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Coffins make handy places to store items other than corpses. After all, most people are a [[DiscouragingConcealment trifle squeamish about opening something that might contain a dead body.body]]. This trope is a when a coffin, sarcophagus or other container intended for human remains is used to conceal something else.
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* In ''WebAnimation/{{Lackadaisy}}'', the [[VenturousSmuggler booze runners]] of Lackadaisy [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub Speakeasy]] are on a late-night mission to the outskirts of a cemetery to dig up a coffin full of Canadian whiskey. (Their funeral home supplier posted an obituary in CypherLanguage as a map to its location)
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* In ''WebAnimation/{{Lackadaisy}}'', the [[VenturousSmuggler booze runners]] of Lackadaisy [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub Speakeasy]] Speakeasy are on a late-night mission to the outskirts of a cemetery to dig up a coffin full of Canadian whiskey. (Their funeral home supplier posted an obituary in CypherLanguage as a map to its location)
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoOnline'': one of Lamar's lowrider missions involves four players being tasked with attacking a Vagos funeral in Blaine County to steal a package of cocaine hidden in the coffin.
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* ''Series/{{Vera}}'': In "Home", the police search the house of woman acting as a middleman in a scheme to smuggle drugs into prison. Vera finds the drugs hidden in a funerary urn the woman claimed contained the ashes of her late husband.
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* Due to the supernatural properties of the coffin he carries around, Goldlewis Dickinson of ''VideoGame/GuiltyGearStrive'' uses it as a BagOfHolding, stashing extra weapons like drones and a minigun in there, which he can pull out during fights. The mysterious life form that inhabits the coffin doesn't seem to mind Goldlewis doing this, though it does occasionally troll him, doing things like handing him a rubber chicken as a "secret weapon".
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* In ''WebAnimation/{{Lackadaisy}}'', the [[VenturousSmuggler booze runners]] of Lackadaisy [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub Speakeasy]] are on a late-night mission to the outskirts of a cemetery to dig up a coffin full of Canadian whiskey. (Their funeral home supplier posted an obituary in CypherLanguage as a map to its location)
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* In ''WebAnimation/{{Lackadaisy}}'', the [[VenturousSmuggler booze runners]] of Lackadaisy [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub Speakeasy]] are on a late-night mission to the outskirts of a cemetery to dig up a coffin full of Canadian whiskey. (Their funeral home supplier posted an obituary in CypherLanguage as a map to its location)
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* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': In the episode "Silver War," looters dig up a Civil-War-era coffin and find it full of guns, hidden against the day when the South might rise again. On the modern collector's market, the cache of vintage guns could bring a couple of million dollars.
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* Millard's plan is to kill Knievel in Mexico and smuggle cocaine in the van carrying Knievel's body back into the United States in ''Film/VivaKnievel''.
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* In the second-ever ''ComicBook/PlasticMan' story, Eel O'Brian infiltrates a gang who are using coffins to smuggle drugs from Mexico to the US.
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* In Brazilian erotic Western spoof ''A Gunman Named Papaco'', the titular gunman drags a coffin containing some precious merchandise that he intends to sell, and his enemies repeatedly try to steal. It's ultimately revealed to be [[spoiler:a bunch of dildos]].
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* ''Series/MyLifeIsMurder'': In "Remains to be Seen", the killer needs to dispose of the VictimOftheWeek's personal belongings to make it look like he skipped town, so they pack them into the oversized casket of someone due to be cremated the next day.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow'': Dr. Coffin's smuggling scheme in "The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium" lacks coffins ''per se'', but is done much in the same vein, as he's disguising gold as corpses under sheets, complete with wigs on top.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow'': Dr. Coffin's smuggling scheme in "The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium" lacks coffins ''per se'', but is done much in the same vein, as he's disguising gold as corpses under sheets, complete with wigs on top.top, on gurneys which is close enough.
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* In ''Series/PeakyBlinders'', Danny Owen's fake grave is where Tommy's stashed the guns from the BSA robbery.
