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* ''[=HHhH=]'' (aka ''The Man with the Iron Heart''). The assassins who killed UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich plan to evade the subsequent dragnet by getting smuggled out of Prague in coffins from the church crypt they are hiding in. Unfortunately the German authorities track them down first.

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* ''[=HHhH=]'' (aka ''The Man with the Iron Heart'').''Film/TheManWithTheIronHeart''). The assassins who killed UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich plan to evade the subsequent dragnet by getting smuggled out of Prague in coffins from the church crypt they are hiding in. Unfortunately the German authorities track them down first.
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* ''[=HHhH=]'' (aka ''The Man with the Iron Heart''). The assassins who killed UsefulNotes/Reinhard Heydrich plan to evade the subsequent dragnet by getting smuggled out of Prague in coffins from the church crypt they are hiding in. Unfortunately the German authorities track them down first.

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* ''[=HHhH=]'' (aka ''The Man with the Iron Heart''). The assassins who killed UsefulNotes/Reinhard Heydrich UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich plan to evade the subsequent dragnet by getting smuggled out of Prague in coffins from the church crypt they are hiding in. Unfortunately the German authorities track them down first.
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* The Man with the Iron Heart''. The assassins who killed UsefulNotes/Reinhard Heydrich plan to evade the subsequent dragnet by getting smuggled out of Prague in coffins from the church crypt they are hiding in. Unfortunately the German authorities track them down first.

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* The ''[=HHhH=]'' (aka ''The Man with the Iron Heart''.Heart''). The assassins who killed UsefulNotes/Reinhard Heydrich plan to evade the subsequent dragnet by getting smuggled out of Prague in coffins from the church crypt they are hiding in. Unfortunately the German authorities track them down first.
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* The Man with the Iron Heart''. The assassins who killed UsefulNotes/Reinhard Heydrich plan to evade the subsequent dragnet by getting smuggled out of Prague in coffins from the church crypt they are hiding in. Unfortunately the German authorities track them down first.
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* Discussed in ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''. Cicero is trying to transport a coffin containing the remains of 'his mother' to a new crypt, but the wagon loses a wheel outside Loreius' farm. Loreius refuses to help Cicero repair the wagon, citing as one of the reasons that he thinks Cicero could be using the coffin to smuggle weapons and [[FantasticDrug skooma]].

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* Discussed in ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''. Cicero is trying to transport a coffin containing the remains of 'his mother' his "mother" to a new crypt, but the wagon loses a wheel outside Loreius' farm. Loreius refuses to help Cicero repair the wagon, citing as one of the reasons that he thinks Cicero could be using the coffin to smuggle weapons and [[FantasticDrug skooma]]. [[spoiler:The coffin does indeed contain his "mother" -- namely, the Night Mother of the Dark Brotherhood, for whom he is her Keeper]].
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* ''Series/MiamiVice'': During the Vietnam War, Colonel William Maynard (played by G. Gordon Liddy) smuggled heroin out of Vietnam by hiding it inside corpses. Unfortunately, the wood alcohol used to preserve the corpses turned the heroin toxic, killing many people.
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* In ''The Golden Rendezvous'' by Creator/AlistairMaclean, the ship is searched for a [[EmptyQuiver stolen nuclear mini-missile]]. Later the protagonist looks in the one place they didn't search, the coffins they're conveying to the occupants home country for burial. [[spoiler:Later the scientist who invented the missile gets smuggled in the coffins in its place -- he's not happy about it.]]
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* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': A victim's fraternity brother places the fraternity paddle that he used to sexually assault an initiate in the coffin of his murdered friend. Luckily for the detectives, the coffin is ceremonial only as the victim is cremated, and the personal items from the coffin are removed and stored until the next-of-kin instructs the funeral home on what to do with them, giving Benson and Stabler time to find the item before it can be destroyed.
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* Insofar as ''Literature/{{Puckoon}}'' [[RuleOfFunny can be said to have a plot]], one of its major points involves the smuggling of explosives into Northern Ireland in coffins.
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** In "Resurrection of the Daleks", the Doctor hides the Hand of Omega in a coffin and arranges to have it buried in the local graveyard.

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** In "Resurrection "Remembrance of the Daleks", the Doctor hides the Hand of Omega in a coffin and arranges to have it buried in the local graveyard.
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* In ''Film/BreakheartPass'', Deakin discovers the coffins in the baggage car are filled with rifles.
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* One ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' mission suggests this as a way to smuggle the MacGuffin: throw it in a bag, cover it in goop, and make it look like what's left of a corpse. (Bonus points for including actual dead body parts. You didn't actually need ''all'' those teammates, did you?)
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* ''Liquidate Paris'', by Creator/SvenHassel. Two Section do this to smuggle a black-market pig across a guarded bridge in German-occupied Paris, in a scene that appears to have been plagiarized from ''Film/TheTripAcrossParis''.
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* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'': In "Love on Ice", the killer disposes of the murder weapon by placing it in the coffin of the VictimOfTheWeek.

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* In ''Film/BadBoys2'', the villain is smuggling money and Ecstasy in coffins. The money is stuffed in the lining, while the drugs are stuffed in the corpses, which have had their organs removed to make space.



* In the original ''Film/{{Oceans11}}'', Danny Ocean and his crew plan on smuggling back the money stolen from the Vegas casinos in a coffin. [[spoiler:Their plan is thwarted when the widow opts for cremation]].

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* In the original ''Film/{{Oceans11}}'', ''Film/{{Oceans 11}}'', Danny Ocean and his crew plan on smuggling back the money stolen from the Vegas casinos in a coffin. [[spoiler:Their plan is thwarted when the widow opts for cremation]].
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* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': In "Fallen Angel", a cache of stolen diamonds is buried in an old grave in a no longer active cemetery. However, the thief was arrested and sent to prison so the diamonds stayed there for 20 years.

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* Apparently a local custom in ''Series/DeathInParadise'', as mentioned early on in "A Personal Murder". Specifically, people put the deceased's cell phone in his/her coffin, taking into account the possibility of the deceased sending a message from the grave. After Cedrik's death, Dwayne gets a text message from him declaring "I was murdered" as his dead body was being burned.
-->'''DI Goodman''': ...Isn't that a bit dangerous? Don't the batteries explode?
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* In ''Series/WhoopsApocalypse'', this is one of the ways Lacrobat smuggles the Quark bomb to the Middle East (with the bodies of two circus dwarfs and himself in a ringmaster's outfit to complete the disguise). Unfortunately, he loses track of the coffin, and it ends up being taken to a crematorium. Kaboom.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "Resurrection of the Daleks", the Doctor hides the Hand of Omega in a coffin and arranges to have it buried in the local graveyard.

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** In "Silver Nemesis", the Cybermen hide the Nemesis statue inside Lady Peinforte's casket.
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* In ''Literature/WithoutRemorse'' by TomClancy, set during the Vietnam conflict, heroin is being smuggled from Asia back to the US in the bodies of dead soldiers.

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* In ''ComicBook/BatLash'' #2, an undertaker is secretly selling rifles to the local Indians and smuggling them in coffins.
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* ''Series/TheDoctorBlakeMysteries'': In "Golden Years", the killer attempts to dispose of an incriminating watch by placing it in the coffin of the VictimOfTheWeek.

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* Drugs are being smuggled inside dead bodies in ''Film/BadBoysII'', leading to a BlackComedy scene where the two cops have to search various bodies in the morgue, including a well-endowed female corpse.
-->"What? [[ILoveTheDead I ain't doin' nothin'.]] What am I gonna do with these big-ass fake dead titties?"
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* One of ''Literature/TheEqualizer'' novels (likely also inspired by the Frank Lucas affair) has heroin being smuggled in coffins marked Remains Non-Viewable (used for mutilated corpses who couldn't be given an open casket funeral) to dissuade anyone from opening them.

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* One of ''Literature/TheEqualizer'' ''Literature/TheExecutioner'' novels (likely also inspired by the Frank Lucas affair) has heroin being smuggled in coffins marked Remains Non-Viewable (used for mutilated corpses who couldn't be given an open casket funeral) to dissuade anyone from opening them.
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* One of ''Literature/TheEqualizer'' novels (likely also inspired by the Frank Lucas affair) has heroin being smuggled in coffins marked Remains Non-Viewable (used for mutilated corpses who couldn't be given an open casket funeral) to dissuade anyone from opening them.
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* RealLife had the "Coffin Connection", heroin was smuggled in coffins using false bottoms. The man was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lucas 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 [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lucas 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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