Inflated Bust? Australia Announces $1 Billion Drug Seizure In Bras

[WhiteTara]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/15/466815438/inflated-bust-australia-announces-1-billion-drug-seizure-in-bras

Police in Australia say they unraveled a drug smuggling ring that used brassiere inserts, paint-by numbers kits and other items to conceal 720 liters (about 190 gallons) of liquid methamphetamine. But not everyone agrees on the drugs' value.

More than a quarter of the seized meth was found "inside thousands of silicon bra inserts amongst the consignment of 86 boxes," according to the federal police.

Announcing the bust, the Australian Federal Police's Joint Organized Crime Group says that the drugs have "an estimated potential street value of more than a billion dollars."

We'll note that at today's exchange rate, the $1.26 billion in Australian dollars that was cited by police is equal to about $900,000 dollars here in the U.S.

The official figure quickly drew scrutiny from critics, who say the police are valuing the drugs at a much higher rate than they have in the past.

[HassleCat]

1. Our cops do this, too.

The drugs are values according to their value if sold gram by gram on the street.

[Orrex]

2. They backed away from their initial estimate of ten googolplex dollars

[TeeYiYi]

3. What's sad...

...is female drug mules transporting drugs inside breast implants. Are they sincerely willing participants?...or is it a decision made through ownership ie. slavery? I can't imagine the desperation required to cause a woman to cut open her body for some heartless drug cartel.

TYY

[hobbit709]

6. Bra INSERTS, not breast IMPLANTS.

[TeeYiYi]

8. I get that...

...but I'm talking about breast implants.

In Columbia, women from throughout Central and South America are being used to smuggle cocaine inside freshly inserted breast implants. They are then required to undergo surgery again, at the final destination, to remove them.

It's sad.

TYY

[hobbit709]

4. The cops always inflate the value. Usually by a factor of 10 or more

One time here in Austin they had a coke bust they said was worth so many millions. Using my calculator, it came to $1940 a gram. My attitude was that at that price it better get me off for a year just looking at it.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. God damn the push up man.

[WhiteTara]

7. I was waiting for the joke

Funny. THanks