Druglords home raided, guns, cash

[mpkeelee]

http://www.epicdash.com/mexican-drug-lords-home-raided-even-incredible-horrifying-ever-imagined/

Prolly a dupe, I didn't check.
Nice house and nice gun collection. Kinda nice to see them taken care of in a country like that

 

[weldingmachine]

Holy crap...

 

[Dreadknot65]

Even if it is a dupe, he sure had a sweet setup. Wish I had tigers and a man-made cave with a hot tub in my small castle.

 

[Come and take]

Damn! Mucho dinero and mucho arma señor.

 

[Bostoned]

$22B in cash in the house! I can't even comprehend that amount of money. That could wipeout the national debt of some countries!

 

[economist]

The war on drugs is such a remarkable failure that they have to stack hundreds yards deep in Mexico. Way to go America, well done.

 

[speedy]

I'll take one of the cabinets, thank you

 

[ntomsw]

What's his NES name?

 

[Swamp_Yankee]

Why am I NOT a drug dealer! I totally picked the wrong career choice.

 

[chindogg]

I wonder if some of the spoils found their way home with any of the committed civil servants?

 

[gscott]

Mex government could give that money to its citizens and maybe they would stop coming here.

 

[MAGG]

in the words of the prank names in the asiana plane crash....Ho Li Fuk

 

[PATRON]

All that money could help the Mexican people,but they will not see one cent of it.

 

[Bonesinium]

So we can't take 10 grand out of the country, and this one house has 22 billion!!!

Ho Li Fuk is right!

 

[slugworth]

Wow!!!!!

 

[SIGPRO 226]

Thats Redonkulous

 

[doughboy]

The pile of cash was actually closer to $207 million, not $22 billion.

Snopes link: http://www.snopes.com/photos/crime/drugmoney.asp

 

[Zappa]

Lot's of FAIL in that article.

There was a matched pair of these found.
.357 Magnum semi-automatics with solid gold grips.

.357 Magnum ???

.38 Super I'd believe, but that's certainly no Coonan.

It proves once again that whenever the media speaks about guns, they always get it wrong.

 

[Quiet]

"The money and valuables found in this one house alone, would be enough to pay for health insurance for every man woman and child in the USA for 12 years! "

Ya... no. Off by a factor of about 500.

300,000,000 people x just $1,000 would be $300 billion
Healthcare is nearly $3 Trillion a year in this country, pushing towards $9,000/year/person.

If insurance premiums are just 1/3 of healthcare spending

So close to
$11,000,000,000,000
vs
$22,000,000,000

 

[mpkeelee]

That's why I posted a story with lots of pictures. More pictures of shiny things and less idiocy from dumbass reporters

 

[pepperoni]

The pile of cash was actually closer to $207 million, not $22 billion.

Snopes link: http://www.snopes.com/photos/crime/drugmoney.asp

And i was thinking hell no is that billions.
Heres what it would really look like.

http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/us_debt/us_debt.html

 

[Boghog1]

These people have so much money, they make the Arab oil sheiks look like welfare recipients. Their money can buy politicians, cops, judges, etc. Whatever they need they just throw down stacks of cash and it is theirs! This is why the drug problem is so difficult to fight.

It is a circle, they have so much money because politicians have made drugs illegal, if people could grow their own dope we wouldn't have the problem and they wouldn't have cash

 

[Bolio]

The pile of cash was actually closer to $207 million, not $22 billion.

Snopes link: http://www.snopes.com/photos/crime/drugmoney.asp

Yup I've seen those pics before and they were def millions not billions.

 

[Rob Boudrie]

The money and valuables found in this one house alone, would be enough to pay for health insurance for every man woman and child in the USA for 12 years!

The innumeracy astounds.

Assume 300 million in the us (it's more like 350m), figure 22,000,000,000/(300,000,000*12) = $6.11/year from the cash, so there would need to be a LOT of valuables to cover the health insurance.

 

[MA_Shooter]

The govt will seize the money/assets and piss it all away.

 

[TOM1960]

The war on drugs is such a remarkable failure that they have to stack hundreds yards deep in Mexico. Way to go America, well done.

Maybe Mexico and the United States should take a lesson from Singapore. Small-time dealers there get long prison sentences and brutal canings that just about chop their buttocks to smithereens. Smugglers go to the gallows and not even the best lawyer in the country can save them from execution after they are convicted. Old women can walk the streets at midnight and not have to worry about crime. They enjoy a higher standard of living than we do. Maybe we could learn from their example?

 

[economist]

Maybe Mexico and the United States should take a lesson from Singapore. Small-time dealers there get long prison sentences and brutal canings that just about chop their buttocks to smithereens. Smugglers go to the gallows and not even the best lawyer in the country can save them from execution after they are convicted. Old women can walk the streets at midnight and not have to worry about crime. They enjoy a higher standard of living than we do. Maybe we could learn from their example?

No.

 

[drgrant]

Maybe Mexico and the United States should take a lesson from Singapore. Small-time dealers there get long prison sentences and brutal canings that just about chop their buttocks to smithereens. Smugglers go to the gallows and not even the best lawyer in the country can save them from execution after they are convicted. Old women can walk the streets at midnight and not have to worry about crime. They enjoy a higher standard of living than we do. Maybe we could learn from their example?

No thanks....

I'll take the risk of violent crime over having an authoritarian government any day of the week.

-Mike

 

[HuntMaine]

18 billion and he got caught. Shoulda spent more on paying people off...

Sent from the blind

 

[cekim]

Maybe Mexico and the United States should take a lesson from Singapore. Small-time dealers there get long prison sentences and brutal canings that just about chop their buttocks to smithereens. Smugglers go to the gallows and not even the best lawyer in the country can save them from execution after they are convicted. Old women can walk the streets at midnight and not have to worry about crime. They enjoy a higher standard of living than we do. Maybe we could learn from their example?

No, the example we should learn from is Amsterdam, or even here from our own history with Prohibition I.

I've never used illegal drugs. I have no interest in them. I think people who destroy themselves with chemicals of unknown origin, side effects, quality, etc... are absolute idiots for whom I have no regard, sympathy, etc...

However, the lesson to be learned is that neither you nor the government that claims to represent you has the authority, or ultimately even the ability to tell adults what they can do with themselves. Attempts to do so create black markets and violence so far exceeding the damage of the use of these chemicals that this should be considered the greatest possible threat to public health.

"The Terror", they tell us all is coming could not exist even on the actual scale that it does (much less the mythical scale they claim) without the war on drugs. We are fueling our adversaries to the tune of 100's of $Billions if not more... This is absolute insanity.