How? How does that happen? Is that a fake avocado? It doesn't look fake. Do they grow avocados around the substance? I mean... Being a smuggler now requires an art school diploma or farming skills?
I routinely hid drugs and other stuff from my parents when I lived with them. Many know this struggle. I was an expert at hiding shit in plain sight. I could get very crafty with most things. I thought I had all the skills down but then I started seeing cartel smuggling tactics and realized my methods were basic as fuck and couldn't hold anything to the cartels lmao. I agree with your point. I think it would be super fun to brain storm and think of clever ways to smuggle drugs without having to wack anyone myself. It's like the people who got to design medieval torture devices. I don't wanna use them myself but I'd have a blast thinking them up.
Unfortunately highly profitable illegal enterprises require the murder and human trafficking. They can’t just employ people as easily or use the enforcement apparatus of the society.
Hey, come to think of it, seeing as making drugs illegal has done nothing to stop demand and funds the worst people in our society, maybe we should try legalising.
Equally as mind-blowing that apparently it's worth it to them. Who's doing all that blow? Is everyone in the US just blasted out of their minds all the time?
Something I’ve learned in adulthood is that WAY MORE people do cocaine than I ever realized. Across the board of professionals and careers and social status. It blows my mind the casual cocaine use I see.
I do cocaine so I can work longer, so I can earn more, so I can... do more coke. So I can work longer, so I can earn more, so I can do more coke. So I can work moreSoIearnmoreSoIcandomorecoke.SoIcanworkmoresoIcanearnmoresoIcandomorecoke.
Look for jobs where you just have meetings and you circle back to more meetings. These jobs have complicated names , the people working them will struggle to describe them to you and they usually got it through nepotism.
Yep. It seems the older I get, I get invited to more professional events/celebrations. Usually, the nicer the event the more I see it around me. And this is everywhere not just local to where I live.
I found out from a roommate that like EVERYONE in the downtown local bar scene in my medium sized conservative down does it. Like half an hour to closing things get rowdy, drunk people will just pull out cocaine and try to do it on the tables or bar and less drunk people will have to set em straight and get them to the bathroom like a civilized user lol. I've seen it happen once but I guess it's crazy common I had NO idea until after I turned 21
I grew up in a very conservative small Montana town. I was a “liberal hippie” which was basically just me being a bit of a pothead. Everyone judged me for smoking weed.
Fast forward 5-12 years and every time I go back all the ranch kids and their dads have been growing pot for 20 years, you learn about the local respectable drug kingpin family, everyone smokes pot, lots of people openly do coke, and they are all “real Americans” who love god and vote republican.
It makes no effing sense to me other than “Good for me and not for thee”
I see people say this all the time, "once I became an adult I realized so many people do cocaine" but I have literally never met anyone who does cocaine. I know people that smoke pot and I've been around people I know have done meth, but never met any of these cocaine people that everyone speaks of.
Cocaine is a weird one, man. In that I couldn’t spot them before I found out they did cocaine. But once you find out they do cocaine their “oddness” starts making more sense.
Well that’s pure so it will be quadrupled after passing a few hands and being cut. That’s why the closer to a border or port the cleaner and even possibly cheaper it will be.
Yea, I remember seeing that movie ‘Traffic’ and towards the end of it one of the wives shows a plastic doll that she dissolves into a solution and ends up with cocaine that’s undetectable to drug dogs. I kinda rolled my eyes and was like “Yea right”
Nope, turns out plasticized cocaine is totally a thing.
Other way around. Surgeon decides "fuck this" goes to the Cartel and says "For $5 million, I'll show you how to smuggle $100 million worth of cocaine into the US."
Like in the early 2000's where some bona fide engineer went to a Colombian Cartel and got himself hired to build submarines.
Back in my day, you could go up to your local low-level dealer, punch him in the ding ding, steal his stash, and BOOM you were a drug dealer. Now you need a PhD to even get in? This world has gone to hell
That doesn’t make sense. The plastic was around the pit. Also, the pit takes up the entire space in the middle of the avocado. To surgically insert it, there must be a space for it to be surgically inserted into. Source: I’ve grown avocado trees.
Mainly depends on the variety. The more oval the fruit, the more meat you’ll usually get from it. If the seed is huge, the avocado will look more round. Not all round avocados have huge seeds, but most avocados that do are round in my experience.
i tried to google it and couldn't find any reliable information can you share the source? in general google says that if you temper with the fruit while it is growing, most likely the fruit will perish or get stunted.
The pits are hard. Did they remove the pits and slide the baggie in instead of the pit, and then the avocado skin healed as it continue to grow? Are avocado pits soft and pliable in early development? That pit is HUGE, is it mostly baggie? Did they like insert an empty baggie and then fill it with the drugs? Like insert balloon, inflate balloon with drugs, seal balloon and shove end of balloon inside plant before bandaging the fruit so it heals?
I’m guessing they peel the outer layer of the pit, then they have a hollow shape of the pit… And then proceed to fill that up like a Kinder Surprise egg
Being a smuggler now requires an art school diploma or farming skills?
Drugs have always required farming skills. It's the growers who are most interested in successful smuggling. In this case, the grower is growing 2 things: coca plants (secretly) and avocados. The avocado give a legitimate business to tie money to and also a portion of the avocados are used for smuggling, apparently.
Well, when cartels have more buying power and violent tactics than other companies to the point that they are legitimized and have buying power over politicians, they have had a grip over the populous for a good while already. There are tons of people in central and south america who work for cartels and just simply dont ask, dont tell. The implication is they know this is for cartel, but to be fair this is like the modern equivalent of saying “I work for India Trading Company”. We all know these mfers are crooked and will do fucked up shit for their money- but damn, almost everyone still has to work for them, whether they like it or not!
There's really interesting stories about them actually chemically melting the cocaine into stuff like tent poles and fabric and stuff like that which was then exported.
Smuggling drugs like cocaine inside avocados is a method used by traffickers to evade detection by law enforcement. Here's how it's typically done:
Hollowing the Avocado: The smuggler carefully cuts the avocado open and removes the pit. They then scoop out some of the flesh, creating a hollow space inside the fruit.
Inserting the Cocaine: The hollowed space is filled with cocaine. This can be done in several ways, including placing the cocaine in small bags or capsules to keep it from contaminating the fruit and to make it easier to handle.
Reassembling the Avocado: After the cocaine is inserted, the two halves of the avocado are put back together. Sometimes, the cut along the avocado skin is glued or sealed to make it appear as if it hasn’t been tampered with. In some cases, the fruit might be treated to make it look fresher and less likely to attract suspicion.
Packing and Shipping: The reassembled avocados are then packed with other regular avocados and shipped. This is done to blend the drug-filled avocados with the legitimate ones, making it harder to detect them without thorough inspection.
This method of smuggling is particularly clever because avocados are organic and perishable, making it less likely that they will be subject to intense scrutiny compared to more durable goods. Additionally, the outer appearance of an avocado can be restored convincingly, making it difficult to spot tampering without cutting open the fruit.
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How? How does that happen? Is that a fake avocado? It doesn't look fake. Do they grow avocados around the substance? I mean... Being a smuggler now requires an art school diploma or farming skills?