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dem_z

dem_z

United Kingdom
June 2004

MAY 30, 2005 03:17 AM

Smuggling cocaine is tricky. Condoms burst, mules die, and there's only so much powder you can pack into one person. Crafty smugglers thought something new was needed.

Smugglers molded the plantains out of glass fiber, filled them with cocaine and painted them to look like the real fruit, a large, green member of the banana family popular in the Caribbean and Latin America, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said on Thursday.

The culprits painstakingly scattered the fakes throughout 1,080 boxes of genuine plantains shipped from Ecuador to the Port of Miami


US Customs spotted the fakes, and have found over 750 pounds (338 kg) of cocaine. The article doesn't say what's going to happen to the real plantains, but I'm sure they'll think of something.

The_Reverend

The_Reverend

United Kingdom
September 2004

MAY 30, 2005 07:41 AM

Man, this plantain soup is THE BEST SHIT EVER, OKAY????!!!

Snottlebocket

Snottlebocket

Netherlands
March 2004

MAY 30, 2005 07:46 AM

let's all think of a clever way to smuggle cocaine.

i say mixing it in with powdered sugar, i'm sure it's easy to seperate later on.

Sticks

Sticks

United Kingdom
June 2011

MAY 30, 2005 07:56 AM

Snottlebocket said:
let's all think of a clever way to smuggle cocaine.

i say mixing it in with powdered sugar, i'm sure it's easy to seperate later on.



Or, soak it into your jeans

funnyman

funnyman

Cherry Hill, NJ
December 2004

MAY 30, 2005 08:31 AM

platanos cocainas!!!!! kinda makes platanos maduros seem crappytongue WEEEE!!!!!!

funnyman

funnyman

Cherry Hill, NJ
December 2004

MAY 30, 2005 08:50 AM

platanos cocainas!!!!! kinda makes platanos maduros seem crappytongue WEEEE!!!!!!

Hang_Em_High

Hang_Em_High

Valdosta, GA
January 2005

MAY 30, 2005 12:49 PM

I don't do cocaine....but if you fry the plantains just right they're pretty tasty...you can boil them to....but it's a little more bland. Try them as a side with some fried fish or a chicken stew.

Oracle

Oracle

Winnipeg, MB
September 2003

MAY 30, 2005 01:15 PM

hmmm sounds a little Martha Sewartesq

FrankMask

FrankMask

Saint Paul, MN
June 2003

MAY 30, 2005 02:27 PM

Dissolve it in coca-cola. Surgically insert it into a sealed off cow's stomach, within the living animal. Sub-orbital rocket.

Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

MAY 30, 2005 02:30 PM

This shit is bananas.

dem_z

dem_z

United Kingdom
June 2004

MAY 30, 2005 02:31 PM

Why don't they just chuck all of them into water? I'm sure the real plantains float and the fake ones sink.

Maybe.

Sticks

Sticks

United Kingdom
June 2011

MAY 30, 2005 04:17 PM

No, you're thinking of witches. wink

Doghouse_Reilly

doghouse_reilly

I'm lost
February 2004

MAY 30, 2005 04:27 PM

I wonder what sort of ingenuity these smugglers have come up with that customs HASN'T caught onto. For every cleverly disguised shipment they catch, there are probably dozens, if not hundreds, that they miss. 750 pounds isn't even a drop in the bucket. Drug cartels can lose practically every other package they send and still turn a profit. But you won't hear about that from any ONDCP propaganda.

Kris7

Kris7

Bridgewater, MA
July 2003

MAY 30, 2005 10:17 PM

The_Reverend said:
Man, this plantain soup is THE BEST SHIT EVER, OKAY????!!!



Hahahahahhaa!

SadPanda

SadPanda

San Francisco, CA
April 2005

MAY 30, 2005 10:45 PM

I remember near the end of Traffic (the American film version), when Catherine Zeta-Jones is showing the drug dealers her doll whose body is made of a cocain mix which gets boiled down or something. Untraceable, even by search dogs. I wonder how much of that was fictional.

Luis

Luis

Preston, ID
February 2004

MAY 31, 2005 12:16 AM

I'm sure Hollywood researched the plot of Traffic thoroughly.