Cuba Has Shortages of Just About Everything.... Except Condoms. Cubans Get Creative w/Condoms

Boats are illegal in Cuba (I wonder why?), so Cuban fisherman use condoms as floats. 

"On this island of shortages and scarcities, the latex condom has uses that stretch far beyond the bedroom. At baseball games, rock concerts and other entertainment events, Cubans blow them up and bat them around the crowd like beach balls. When parents can’t afford birthday party balloons or can’t find them, they unfurl a few “Vigor” brand prophylactics and start puffing. The latex is so strong and supple that kids can even draw faces on them.

The Cuban government sells the Chinesemade rubbers three-for-a-penny at pharmacies and snack bars, cheap enough for anyone to afford. The island has shortages of just about everything else though, thanks to five decades of US sanctions and a ruinous state-run economy. It should come as no surprise, then, that enterprising Cubans have found all sorts of recreational and industrial applications for their condoms that have nothing to do with birth control."

Including being used for fishing (see photo above), read more here.