$168 Million Drug Bust at Busan Port
These drug smugglers must have forgot to pay someone off in the Mexican government to have this tip called in against them:
The Korea Customs Service announced Monday it confiscated a record amount of cocaine shipped into the Port of Busan.
Joong Ang Ilbo
According to customs officials, 63.88 kilograms (140.8 pounds) of cocaine was smuggled into the port, the largest amount of drugs found since the opening of Busan Harbor. Authorities estimated that market value was about 190 billion won ($168 million).
Customs authorities said the cargo left Mexico 20 days ago, arrived in Busan on Dec. 14 and was head to Tianjin, China.
Customs was tipped off about the smuggling by Mexican customs officials. The Korea Customs Service was told the drugs were concealed in 22 tons of recyclable copper scraps, packed in small plastic bags that were stuffed into two large black bags.
You can read more at the link.
$168,000,000
—————– = 2,629,931 $/kg
63.88 kg
It would seem the cop math is off by over an order of magnitude.
But if it isn’t, I’m going to start pounding condoms full of baking soda in my ass and hitting the stopwatch until I can get a kilogram of them wedged into there for about as long as it takes to go from a hotel in Mexico City to an Incheon Airport crapper on this side of customs.
Then it will be, “Have fun at work, suckers!”
P.S. Anybody want to buy a $2,630 gram of coke? No? Come on, you cheapskates. Hmmm… not sure this business is going to work out.
At that price, some wealthy Koreans may buy it for the notoriety; just because it’s expensive. But I dare say the majority of Koreans don’t realize the difference between cocaine, marijuana, PCP, hash, heroin, etc. — they’re all just drugs. Thus, the baking soda trick could very likely work. First round’s on CH!!
That is an oddly very specific tip….
Then a big Korean rat comes along and spoils the fun.