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Move Over, Drug Mules

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Mexico’s crackdown on the drug trade has smugglers fishing for new ways to move their contraband.

Here come the drug sharks. The Mexican navy has discovered more than a ton of cocaine packed into frozen shark carcasses, demonstrating the creativity of smugglers trying to deliver their drugs into the U.S.

The Guardian:

The lengths to which drug smugglers will go to conceal their consignments was revealed when the Mexican navy said it had seized more than a tonne of cocaine stuffed inside frozen shark carcasses.

Masked naval officers cut open more than 20 carcasses filled with slabs of cocaine after checking a cargo ship in a container port in the state of Yucatan. X-ray machines and sniffer [dogs] led them to the stash.

“We are talking about more than a tonne of cocaine that was inside the ship,” said navy commander Eduardo Villa yesterday. “Those in charge of the shipment said it was a conserving agent but after checks we confirmed it was cocaine.”

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By tropicgirl, June 17, 2009 at 3:22 pm Link to this comment

Now if we can just get Bank of America, and the rest of the too-big-to-fail financial institutions off their Afghanistan drug-money laundering habit.

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By coloradokarl, June 17, 2009 at 2:04 pm Link to this comment

I used to shoot coke that had a deisel flavor. The yellow ether was the best though. it has been 25 years and I still rush thinking about it. Let us make it all legal and tax it to retrain the cops and prison gaurds. Wadya think??

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By rollzone, June 17, 2009 at 1:19 pm Link to this comment

hello. idiots. i have known all along that cocaine is a preserving agent. cocaine used as a localised anestetic preserves cellular tissue by numbing the area; and coincidentally: by eliminating pain. the elimination of pain preserves nerve synapses in the brain, and reduces damage. cocaine as a preservative is something i would contemplate for my strawberries. certainly it would require legalization (a kick in the teeth of organised crime) to lower the cost effectiveness of such an application. i submit greater effectiveness by removing the packaging around the product.

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