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The Transporter: turtle found by U.S. Coast Guard with $53 million worth of cocaine attached to it (lemmy.world)

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[-] troglodytis@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

The Coast Guard sure has some funky math.

seized 7 tons of cocaine worth over $135 million

But this 1800 lbs is worth $53mil?

They're just making up these numbers

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Of course they are. The whole war on drugs is made up.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

That's just a maritime ton

[-] Steve@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

Per usual

[-] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

it's worth nothing until you realize the gains

this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2024

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