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[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 236 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Federal police are still investigating whether the aircraft was involved in drug trafficking

Um....

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 117 points 1 week ago

finally an article that's oniony beyond the headline

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 87 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Maybe it was just for personal use

[–] Kraiden@piefed.social 45 points 1 week ago

Musk's personal stash

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 24 points 1 week ago
  • Kash Patel on Epstein trafficking girls
[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks like a whole weeks supply. He’ll be devastated

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 17 points 1 week ago

It was headed to a Coca-Cola factory. They are adding it back along with real cane sugar.

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[–] ileftreddit@piefed.social 186 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I remember when a business jet packed to the gills with cocaine crashed and when they investigated, it turned out to be owned by a CIA shell company and previously used to shuttle people to Guantanamo for torture after an extraordinary rendition

https://asnc.flightsafety.org/wikibase/321868

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I thought no fucking way they found over 7000lb of cocaine on a little business jet but yeah, that Gulfstream could probably barely take off with that much on board. That's one badass airframe.

[–] BillBurBaggins@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Maximum payload is 1.5t but the fuel payload is 12t so 3t of cocaine barely scratches it

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Hi aplane, I'm dad.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 10 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Oh my god still? Cocaine isn't cool anymore. Fent is more profitable to move. What the hell? Was The Deserter right?

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 108 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well there goes Elon's Doordash. Definitely not getting that $10 tip now.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is ridiculous.

Elon never tips.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Not entirely true, he'll tip if you carry his baby to term. Sometimes he'll even tip in horses.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Phew, at least the SpaceX branded ketamine got through.

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Guess Elon's weekly shipment will be late. Probably scrambling to replace it off the streets like some kind of nose-mounted vacuum cleaner.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

oh no, Elon's weekly supply!!

[–] Jojowski@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow! I wonder what will happen to those 178kgs of cocaine they found!

[–] ne0phyte@feddit.org 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It wouldn't even surprise me if some of the 150kg of cocaine went missing.

[–] frittoBee@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone really ought to take care of the 120 kg of cocaine.

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

80 kilos of cocaine is quite a lot, it really should be disposed of safely.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

good thing 40 kilos is exactly what fits in the evidence room

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Now, to find out who was going to receive those 20kg of cocaine

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[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wonder if it's a joke label or not

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Some drug traffickers use existing brands to "market" themselves.

Here's some Afghan heroin seized and destroyed by the international coalition on the Arabian Sea in 2021:

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Id ride in a bently, I wouldnt ride in a spacex or tesler

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[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Any other company and I'd probably go yeah, the dealers did that, but I wholeheartedly believe Tesla has a cocaine manufacturing department.

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[–] 69420@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I only get that Johnny Chimpo branded stuff. It's Afghanistanimation!

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[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

It's real. I used to buy Nike brand ecstasy all the time.

If you have a Nike store in your town, I recommend you go in and ask for the triple stacks.

[–] hogmomma@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago

How do they know it's a fake spaceX packaging? Seems legit to me.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s this cursed timeline’s equivalent of Mitsubishi MDMA pills

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Fuck yeah my guy! You brought back memories...

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 28 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It can be one of three scenarios IMO:

A: Elon is being particularly dumb and actually produced and distributed drugs with his logo.

B: The Trump Regime created and planted these drugs to manufacture a reason to prosecute Elon.

C: Some drug distributor is a huge fan of SpaceX, or wants to deflect investigation away from their other operations.

...the world being the way it is, all three seems pretty damn plausible to me. 😕

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

D: They're branding their coke the same way that MDMA pill pressers will stamp real logos on their product to market it (without permission, of course). They usually don't do this with coke, but it's not unheard of.

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[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

definitely c. you ever seen shitty weed packaging thats an obvious reference to Rick and Morty, trump, etc? looks like that culture has made its way to cocaine now

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[–] Envy@fedia.io 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Musk ain't getting shit done anytime soon

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[–] SunSunFuego@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

in other news: are mitsubishi and tesla involved in global ecstasy sales?

[–] godfish@lemy.lol 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I personally have a theory that they are indeed supplying pill manufacturers with high quality presses.

Most high quality pills (not talking about contents) I have seen beeing confiscated in night clubs are branded with car or fashion brands.

So maybe they are targeting people when they have a high happy hormone output.

Like: woah that mitsubishi is making me feel soooo great and suff.

Oh god the new Tesla's are so strong.

Sounds like something marketing departments would get off on.

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[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Plane full of drugs crashes. Police are still investigating if it was involved in drug trafficking... what?

[–] npcknapsack@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

I thought I was clicking through to a satire site. Da fuq is this.

[–] Friendlybirdseggs@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

MDMA pills are often branded with various logos from all sorts of companies and IPs (without permission, of course), so I imagine it was something similar to that.

a pile of "Orange Teslas" MDMA pills

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Musk switching away from Ketamine?

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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

How much of the product was in the pilot's system?

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