An icon used by drug smugglers in the southwestern united states. It was originally a symbol used to identify those who were
muling drugs across the united states border, but has sense evolved to be a symbol for smuggled drugs on the whole.
The term has gained notoriety outside the underground from a
September 23rd 2006 story broken on abc's news program
20/20.
Seeing
a blue balloon on a car window you know they
traffic drugs.