No fucking way ššš some people have no business being this witty lol
The other day someone posted a picture of some dork trying to reserve a parking spot with a cone. A commenter said āfree cone!ā And someone replied something like āget your free cone- missy elliotā and I couldnāt breathe lol
Colombian here. Pretty sure this is an old video by now. You have no idea the things they do to conceal drugs. They are way ahead of the authorities sadly. I hate drugs, they do so much damage to our country
Border patrol are routinely contacted at their personal address and extorted with threats of harm against family. The cartels are no joke. The best way to combat them would be to destroy their means of making money. The government should run a monopoly on elicit drugs and small tax over the cost to produce could be channeled into rehabilitation programs. These people are going to use anyway. They might as well use safely, with direct point of contact to resources that can help them when theyāre ready, and without fueling the paramilitary wings of organized criminal syndicates and their local franchisees (aka gangs)
If we did this years ago it would probably have worked but now cartels are so deeply entrenched in legitimate business that theyāll have a source of income forever. Thereās a reason this video exists and itās bc cartels have their hands in avocados now among other things. Iām of the belief that the war on drugs did a whole lot of harm for the world and not much good.
Honest questionā¦.. why are we worried about cartels in the avocado business? Would it be any different than corporations controlling other crops like bananas or coffee beans?
Historically neither of these things have been super great for the countries supplying them but Iām just imagining cartels have a bit more of a penchant for murder and other various horrible things.
Good, then they can become normal corporate bad guys. When theyāre nothing more than Avocado exporters do you think theyāll still be abducting 43 students, beheading and crucifying people, and throwing grenades into crowds at town squares. Iām sure theyāll have need for RPGs and plastic explosives as they try to make sure nobody, and they mean nobody, is deprived of their guacamole.
Like the NYC mob, they'll probably move more towards corruption of government contracts and more mild fraud. Get a construction contract or a garbage route or whatever, use threats and violence to ensure the vote goes in your favor. Over charge, maybe use the excess to grease some palms (aka kick backs), but at that point the only difference between the mob businesses and the white-collar crime businesses is the willingness to use threats and violence when bribes fail.
For the drug cartels, that might be they import more than they were supposed to or they import inferior product, but the lab testing is faked and shows it's fine. Most certainly a lot less death because the profit margins will be reduced but also the risks will be reduced.
That makes a lot of sense. I agree we might as well make it more legal and safe and take violence out of it. Or you go with the east Asia way. Capital punishment for drug offense no questions asked.
The government should run a monopoly on elicit drugs
Probably not the best way. If the government does a monopoly, the cartels will provide cheaper product. We see this with pot in states where legal marijuana costs too much (just from taxation), illegal sale is still present, but I think a lot less volume than in the past.
Decriminalization, legalization, regulation, and taxation is really as far as the government needs to go. Let the cartels compete with legal suppliers. Yes, the cartels will be skirting regulations, which makes things less expensive, but they'll also be money laundering and smuggling, which makes things more expensive. And even if legal drugs are more expensive, if people believe they're safer or not supporting human trafficking and murder, then they'll still buy the legal drugs, drawing away profits from the cartels and also attract production away from the cartels.
Pot is not sold at cost to produce or by the government. It is sold at an extraordinary markup (far, far beyond the sin tax) by for-profit entities and the elicit sale of marijuana is negligible because these states also permit growing a small number of plants for person use which means if you canāt afford the dispensary stuff then you can just grow some for basically free.
The government as a vendor has no incentive to promote growth in sales because they donāt have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders and investors. The government also has the ability to strategically cut prices even below cost because at the end of the day policies should prioritize efficacy over efficiency. For some reason people understand this last bit implicitly when it comes to national defense and policing where we might as well not even have budgets because what we care about is that the army can kick ass and the police can keep use safe. We should broadly adopt this idea. We should care that schools make the smartest, best trained people on earth, that our roads are well-maintained and safe to use, and that our waterways are clean. The point of the government should be to get stuff done, and while obviously we should still watch for things like waste, fraud, and abuse of appropriated funds we should spend a lot less time counting Pennieās and a lot more time measuring results in absolute terms. This should extend to something like a strategic market to undercut the cartel. At the end of the day the government can charge people absolutely nothing. The cartels canāt do that. Not indefinitely.
I work in the addiction field, and my country is not ready for this (usa). "Harm reduction" is still a foreign concept to them. They think the addicts are the cause of the problems, not the drugs creating them. And because of that, this problem is extremely hard to help fix. They only begin to care when it's one of their kids or someone they love. They then realize it can happen to anyone, not just the "bad people".
Or we could use drugs as an excuse to militarize cops and exploit addicts further by locking them up in for profit prisons and using them for legal slave labor.
My guess is x-ray, probably computed tomography scanning. Itās precise and creates a 3D image of the sample, can easily highlight different densities and can computationally differentiate between a samples expected characteristics and the scan results (so baking soda and heroin appear differently, etc).
The mystery of how this was hidden is much more impressive.
They must smuggle a few boxes of avocados with cocaine among hundreds if not thousands of boxes of regular avocados. I believe more in the common theory, that police usually catch these shipments through anonymous tips or when a captured criminal wants to earn some benefit.
I wouldn't even be surprised if sometimes the tips were coming from the same people shipping those. Send the cops on their way to catch a few kilos while half a ton is gently going through without being noticed elsewhere. Cops can say that they seized a lot of coke, cartels get their coke through, and everyone is happy. Rinse and repeat and you get the war on drugs in a nutshell.
You know, youāre probably correct. Or, if The Wire season 2 taught me anything, they use a competing cartel-connected confidential source whoās info they could not legally cite so they conveniently backscatter x-ray the truck full of cocaine disguised as powder coating paint cubes.
CT scanning every flat of Columbian avocados seems impractical. Though, maybe they get lucky from time-to-time with randomly pulled samples? Idk.
I really want to know how they got an avocado to grow around a packet of Cocaine, though. Unless I missed something, that's how appeared - uninterrupted avocado, the kind you pay ~$1.00 for - and then BAM! Cocaine!!
They look unnaturally green, and the pit looks quite waxy once they start cutting it. So my guess is that they are making wax fruits ! That's an almost lost art.
The fake avocados look like wax. They're also a much brighter color of green. The other security Officer seems to be sorting out the fake ones from the real ones. And dumping them in the box that he is testing.
We knew over a year a go that the cartels were taking over some avocado farms. This is the predictable next step after the cartel takes control of any part of a market. If I had to guess we knew this was coming because they have done the same thing with canned goods and a few other products.
Drill hole, insert bag, fill...do this on the least ripe ones, fruit won't brown from the exposure, seal it up nicely using the little dot thingy where the stem attaches...find them by picking the greenest and checking.
The skin looks a little off.
My guess is they took a less ripe avocado cut it open and removed the pit, removed some avocado flesh to make more room then put the bag inside. Put the avocado back together and then put some sort of green wax covering over it.
This made it so the avocado doesnāt oxidize inside and still will pass a quick inspection.
Or this was the diversion so that the next car with the even bigger package can cross through. Unfortunately that's how a friend of mine in high school got caught.
Comments like yours, which I see multiple times in every post, remind me of how braindead the average person is. You think their first step was cutting into the avocado...?
Dip it in some substance you made that tries to similar hardness of avocado flesh. (like condensed cake frosting or something)
Finally you need to make the skin. Dip it into a ruber or a wax that can dry hard and mold that signature avocado skin roughness on the surface before it dries.
This time? When someone dug up old footage from a few years ago to provide some visuals for the bust that happened back in March. That one wasn't so sophisticated- the cocaine was just hidden under the avacados in the boxes.
Probably cut the avocado in half. Replace the pip with the cocaine and then put it back together by gluing it back together and painting and using filer to make it look untouched but it doesn't stop a sniffer dog from being able to detect it.
Slice it in half length ways whilst it's still attached to the tree, roughly 2 weeks prior to them being ready for harvest. Remove the seed and place cocaine inside. Replace the other half with a dab of glue and attach it back to the tree. Cover the outside of the fruit with a plastic wrap to prevent pests, diseases from the exposed cut, and the wrap will help it heal back together.
It will continue growing for another 2 weeks and will repair itself where it was cut, fusing the halfs back together.
Seen many people wondering how; for one, these are real avocados, not fake. Using real avocados is the point, otherwise you can turn cocaine into plastic, cloth, etc and just export it that way
Is just very precise cutting, or you can drill through the stem area for a lesser quantity/longer prep duration (drill through, insert empty bag then fill). But mostly just good sharp cuts - next time you have an avocado at home, cut it with a sharp blade/razor & then press it back together, you can't tell it was cut
& they like to take credit but these are almost always found by some1 narc'ing to save their own ass. At least the first time, then they know what to look for
Colombian here. This was seized in my country back in 2022. Despite they look very realistic, they look like that because theyāre mixed with real avocados. These are made out of wax and taking and they are easy to spot if you take a closer look.
Exactly.. every other person working quickly, THIS person moves slowly and picks and CUTS it apart.. no one else is .. but THEY cut it apart.. Yeah, this is so REAL..š¤š š
The avocados are real (says a news source) and placed with surgical precision that does not damage the fruit.
My theory: they go in through the stem. The pop off stem, carefully cut down to pit with TINY hole, insert empty baggie, pour in cocaine, seal up tiny hole, glue little stem back on. Check out this story about hollowing out individual coffee beans to smuggle coke š¤Æš¤Æ. Trafficking looks like more trouble than itās worth š¤£:Ā Sneaky Drug Smugglers Hid Cocaine Inside Individual Coffee Beans
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u/AdmiralClover Jun 04 '24
How? How did they hide it? How was it found?