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- Burmask, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31Simple economics - Supply and demand. When will the war on drugs end and the war on drug-related health issues begin?
- PatrickFisher, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24I took me far too long to realize that they meant "Submarine" and not "Sub Sandwich". That gave me the wierdest image.
- Silencer7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Yeah!
Was it...Yellow? - YumYumKittyLoaf, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Although I believe cocaine is quite dangerous and I would never touch the stuff, I, like others, worry people would hurt themselves with cocaine. I beleive if they somehow show that benefits of legalizing drugs outweighs the benifits (if any) of keeping it illegal, we might have a change.
Like I said, i worry about the problem of people hurting themselves with cocaine, but with proper education about it, it should be alright. People do dumb, dangerous things all the time, like sky-diving, base jumping, and motorcycle stunts. Drugs should fall in the same catagory: People should be able to do it if they please, even if they might get horribly hurt in the process.
Hot damn that's a lot of blow though. That would be worth way too much money... not to mention dangerous. Think of accidently falling into it, or inhaling too much XD - YumYumKittyLoaf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16@ Mikefitz2
Settle down, infamous is just commenting on how he's surprised at human ingenuity ( i would think) . Don't look so deep into it... - jollyroger814, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I dont think a shark is going to eat a ***** wood and fiberglass submarine.
- userChris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Not unless the sharks have LASERS ON THEIR HEADS!!!!!!!
- InfamousX241, on 10/12/2007, -7/+19That is so god damned ***** awesome. *****!
- HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11No pics?
- lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12The term "war on drugs" is just the government's/media's way to sensationalize the whole mess. The sensationalism helps them justify more taxes/government and helps scare the american people into submission. That kind of nonsense should be stopped.
But actually trying to stop drug dealers/smugglers is a good thing. Drugs are not just bad for the people using them, the revenue gives power to the wrong people. Yes we need to keep drugs out of america. It just doesn't need to be sensationalized and used as political pressure. - interiot, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13@PatrickFisher: How many sub sandwiches do you know of that have 3-ton storage compartments?
- Tweekster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9you might want to rephrase that one in light of last week:
"A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected, The Washington Times has learned."
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20061113-121539-3317r.htm - lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Beats shoving them up your ass!
Wait, no it doesn't... - Araya213, on 10/12/2007, -2/+103 TONS!!! I feel proud to live in a country that is able to go through 3 tons of cocaine per shipment!!
- mtownand1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9those drug dealers have some big cohones to be in that thing in areas that have sharks around.
- p00p, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@Tweekster: Standard (expensive) powder cocaine is less addictive than cigarettes, so that's an incorrect blanket statement you just made there.
- maabus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7What I don't get is...these people had a 50 foot homemade submarine, filled with 3 tons of yayo, and yet were breathing through air tubes that were skimming the surface?
With a 50 foot sub, and that much money put into this project, why the hell wouldnt you just buy a couple oxygen tanks? - jollyroger814, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7dun dun....dun dun...dun dun....dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun
- shadesfox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I think that someone did actually try and buy Russian subs to smuggle drugs. The DEA and the US Navy worked together and I think they got him. That said I would think that there are more then a few reasons they don't use Russian subs.
1) Russian subs are really expensive to operate. These things were made to go to war!
2) Running subs in the Gulf of Mexico would really piss off the US Navy, who are far better funded then the DEA and has far more far larger weapons then the DEA. Not a good bunch to upset.
3) Can you imagine the field day that a scare mongering mass media would have? "Druggies acquire nuclear submarines!" Nevermind they would probably get the diesel subs and skip on the ICBMs, it just takes one ***** who doesn't know the difference to incite hysteria.
Also, was I the only one who thought "three tons? That must have been one hell of a sandwich." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9does this make anyone else's teeth feel numb?
and for some reason i'm all sniffly... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+63 tons? "Honey, I got you that rock you always wanted! We could get high for HOURS!!!!!!"
/obscure Chappelle - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It was 'found' in international waters, so they turned it over to the US...
What's wrong with this picture?
I never wanted to live in a world with a super dictatorship that would take over everything! - Yez70, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@YumYumKittyLoaf
Why are you afraid of people harming themselves?
Do you enjoy paying the government to be everyone's mommy and daddy?
Making drug use illegal has cost us far more than treating drug abuse ever would. In fact treatment would reduce drug crimes against other people by massive amounts. The cost of the drug war is doing far more harm to people than the abuse of drugs is harming the people doing the drugs.
The logic beehind this is like saying: Maybe the government can send someone, possibly a pedophile, over to change your kids diapers for you - so they don't get a rash and 'harm' themselves. - Tweekster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7there is no clear answer to drugs because not all drugs are the same.
blanket legalization is just as idiotic as the blanket prohibition we have now.
there is no simple answer, but clearly what is being done now isnt the right answer either.
cocaine is probably one of the toughest, extremely destructive, addictive, and creates power and money....this is not a good combo.
marijauna is a simple drug to deal with, cocaine is a whole different beast. - jacobo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4and check this
Submarine found 2,250 mts above sea level
http://www.tecnocracia.com/index.php/submarine-found-2250-mts-above-sea-level/ - Tweekster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4weight, every extra kilo counts.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Probably not when dealing with these sizeable busts.
Corruption isnt as a big of a problem in the US. sure at the local small level, some cops are corrupt, but the number goes down as the level of trade goes up.
For all the ***** cops get in the US, the corruption isnt that bad, particularly when you get up into the federal levels "
It's good that you believe that, and spread that...keeps the supply lines going! - combatchuck, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Pics or it didn't happen!
- Ductapemaster, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Why does America tend to be so negative? We're always involved in some kind of 'war'...the war on drugs, the war on terrorism...all that kind of thinking just brings about more of what we're against. Really, we should be going 'for' the other side of things, like being pro-health (as opposed to anti-addiction).
I'm sure some of you have heard this before but I will say it again:
"Change your thinking, change your life" - Tweekster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4This wont even make a difference in the street price.
- tony134340, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wonder if all that is really destroyed when it is seized or if any 'accidentally' works it's way back on the street by corruption?
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3turned over to the USA? Better keep the CIA away from it, they like their coke.
- DigiShaman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I don't have a problem with people using drugs. I DO have a problem with parents using drugs when they should be raising their children. Unfortunately, they're all too often the victim of substance abuse implicitly, or explicitly.
I don't claim to have an answer to the drug problem. But I do hope people will take into consideration humanities most innocent among us. - WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4If sharks attacked, their plan was to just release some coke into the water, making the sharks no longer hungry!
- signal15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually, they DID buy an old russian or german sub, but crashed it into a reef and sunk it on it's first voyage.
CIA photos showed something strange a few years ago in the jungles near the coast of Columbia. It turns out they were actually building full fledged submarines, with the help of russian sub designers they had hired. The article that talked about it said that some of the tech was so new, the US didn't have it on their subs yet.
I'm going to bed, if anyone finds links to reference it, post them. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5i do cocaine!
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Lesson learned: you can buy a sub, but you can't buy a competent crew. Next time just bribe los federales.
- afruff23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3MMMmmm...3 ton sub....gurgurgugrrrrrrrrrrrrr
- ScnnrDrkly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So wait, how did three tons of coke help capture a sub?
- p00p, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's really true. I feel relatively safe saying that there are countries wherein cocaine is not illegal- so why should these men, in international waters, be subject to the laws of the US?
At the very least, they should be individually subject to their own countries' laws.
This is ridiculous. - sjalloul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I guess...I am not the only person who was waiting on a picture. I am sure the would've got caught some where down the line, when you considering they busted 18 tons already this is yet another tragedy for the drug addicts. I guess you got to get people off this stuff, but I am sure that's not likely since someone is making a cut of the profit!
- Tweekster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Go look up the guy from miami known as "Tarzan"
when he looked into buying a russian sub, the only question he was asked was "with missiles or without?"
he got nailed, but the Russians had an entire fleet of subs sitting there rotting away, how many dissappeared?
a few years back they found a barge with 7 tons just floating around with no crew. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I was actually quite close to there this weekend *and* swimming in the Pacific. I saw no submarines but I did see some hot women.
- thydzik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2why not make it remote control.
saves having to have people in it, which means no need for pipes to breath, which means can be fully submerged. - XStatic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They seem to have been doing this for a while...
http://www.afp.gov.au/about/publications/platypus_magazine/june_2001/bogota
Indicative of the audacious wealth of drug smugglers is this "cocaine submarine" discovered by Colombian authorities on the outskirts of Bogot in September 2000. If this extremely expensive project had been completed, it is thought that the vessel would have been used to smuggle cocaine.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4792075.stm
A submarine which police say may have been used for cocaine smuggling has been found floating off Spain's north-western coast. - covareo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here are some pics via Gadling:
http://www.gadling.com/2006/11/20/homemade-sub-to-central-america/ - jambarama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@maabus
The thing that really puzzles me is this. From TFA: "...three plastic pipes... four men traveled inside the 50-foot wood and fiberglass craft, breathing through the pipes."
Four guys for three pipes? Either they had something pushing the air through the pipes for them, the pipes were really big so air just flowed, or someone wasn't breathing! - ate50eggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Damn...there goes my weekend.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Sharks???
I've never heard that one. - williamtl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hate the fact that they took them to the United States by default because they were "captured in international waters."
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