9.5 tons of cocaine and 11 Russian sailors seized by cops in Cape Verde

[xeni]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/02/01/11-russian-sailors-9500-kil.html

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[KathyPartdeux]

[anon48584343]

Nyet cocaine, soap power for money laundry. Da?

[semiotix]

For clarity, don’t mix units in the headline like that.

Either say “9.5 tons of cocaine and 0.96 tons of Russian sailors” or “11 Russian sailors and 109 sailor-weights of cocaine.”

[deedub]

Someone just paid for a very very expensive lesson on eggs and baskets.

[ycleptShawn]

tons? Oh my.

[j11]

Wait shouldn’t someone recommend building a wall?

[temp]

Now Maduro’s going to have to find another way to pay back those loans.

[larrycovey]

That’s odd. When they left South America they had 10 tons.

[Avyctes]

You know this is merely the tip of the iceberg, imagine how many of these shipments don’t get caught.

[anon29537550]

Thus explaining the need to stop for dead crewman. Half a ton of coke will fuck you up.

[roomwithaview]

@deedub

Someone just paid for a very very expensive lesson on eggs and baskets.

I’m sure there’s plenty of other baskets.

[deedub]

Sure, but that was all the eggs.

[roomwithaview]

@anon29537550

Thus explaining the need to stop for dead crewman.

But why the stop?
Water is deep, fishes are hungry.

[roomwithaview]

@deedub

Sure, but that was all the eggs.

That shipment is big, but it’s still less than 1% of the cocaine trade per year.

[sully75]

The kids these days are snorting all kinds of things. Even Russian sailors.

[Garymon]

[LadyBrains]

@larrycovey

That’s odd. When they left South America they had 10 tons.

And 12 sailors!

[deedub]

@LadyBrains

That’s odd. When they left South America they had 10 tons.

And 12 sailors!

And…hey where’d the dinghy go?

[CoffeeStar]

And not a great look for Russia.

So a country is to blame for the actions of its criminals? Mexico is to blame for the Zetas?