what? that's where I live....I don't remember any infection movies.

But there was that flood movie with Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek.

Pixels? I just thought that's how Japanese junk naturally looked!

Swiss Army Knife Alox

Spoilers follow, but Mark Wahlberg made a marginally entertaining movie called Contraband where smugglers dumped their cargo overboard in weighted bags loaded with salt. The salt dissolved and the cargo floated up later for recovery.

Maybe some coke runner thought that since they saw it in a movie, it must work?