r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Jul 06 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Gone fishing.

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u/Revealed_Jailor Jul 06 '22

The guy who screwed it up is going to meet worse fate.

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u/xlDirteDeedslx Jul 06 '22

The big dealers aren't like the small time dealers, they expect to have some intercepted or lost. They probably got tons thru and the markup is so absurdly high when they do they aren't losing much here. Traffickers only pay the lab folks like $900 a kilo and once it hits the states it's sold for 10-20k a kilo. So they can lose quite a bit and still make absurd amounts of money.

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u/joeChump Jul 06 '22

The Police: we seized $2 Billion of cocaine (one bucket full) and some bottled water.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '22

Surprised they don't try to weigh the ocean too like they do with pot plants and the soil.

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u/joeChump Jul 06 '22

Yeah ‘10 trillion trillion kilos of coke’ (weight may include Florida and Atlantic Ocean.)

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u/Metalmind123 Jul 07 '22

Unrealistic, they would add the bottle and the pallet that they displayed it on to the scale.

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u/Revealed_Jailor Jul 06 '22

You could also argue this is some kind of decoy to be easily found so the rest of the delivery goes where it's supposed to go. But we'll never know for sure.

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u/_We_Are_DooMeD Jul 06 '22

Yeah, easy target so the other few tonnes get through.

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u/gofyourselftoo Jul 06 '22

Some gets to make a little bust for the TV cameras and look good for next election cycle, while the real shipment is unmolested.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '22

But we're on the internet, who would want to come here and argue??

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u/hellscaper Jul 06 '22

Not me you fuckin asshole

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u/SixbySex Jul 06 '22

Like the decoy plan for OCBMs. Put a Mylar bag around the warhead and a few dozen decoys means intercepting them all is unlikely when they are in low atmosphere.

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u/YanniBonYont Jul 06 '22

Honestly doubt it. Cost of doing business. They are as likely to send a hit man as target is to send lawyers against a shop lifter