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Posted on Jun 17, 2009
DRUG SHARKS!
guardian.co.uk

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 4:22 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 3:04 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 2:19 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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