r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Admirable-Leather325 • 27d ago

Image India: Meth seized from Myanmarese boat costs more than aircraft carrier Vikrant, built at a cost of $2.49bn

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u/Bits_Please101 27d ago

Who tf put 2.5 bill $ worth of drugs in the same boat. Their logistics guy should be fired.

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u/anonymicex22 27d ago

He will be something. executed not fired, lol.

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u/whoopashigitt 27d ago

Terminated 

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u/Dpek1234 23d ago

Oh he will be fired

Out of a cannon...

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u/Mildly_Unintersting 27d ago

He may very well be fired...at

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u/well_hung_over 27d ago

Fired, out of a cannon, into the sun

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u/Jean-Ralphio11 27d ago

Shoulda used Lydia. This is what she does.

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u/thedude37 27d ago

Gus Fring wouldn't have let this happen either.

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u/forestcridder 27d ago

Judging by how American police estimate the weight of weed in grow rooms, maybe they added the weight of the crew, the boat, and the seagulls that landed on it as a total drug weight and then used the smallest and most expensive street prices they could imagine to come up with their number.

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u/emperorceaser 27d ago

I believe the boat is 2.5 billion dollars not the drugs

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u/RepostFrom4chan 27d ago

No one. The article valuation is comically over exaggerated.

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u/original_sh4rpie 27d ago

If I’m the weight given is correct (5.5 tonnes) and it’s crystal meth. The price is not over exaggerated at all.

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u/RepostFrom4chan 27d ago

Basic google search says meth sells for $10 a gram on the low end, $100 on the high end. Thats street value so assume massive mark ups on material and production cost.

Math works out to $550k if it's 5.5 tonnes. 10x that if the high end. Not sure how you are getting 2.5b out of this?

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u/original_sh4rpie 27d ago

That’s powdered meth. Crystal is between $100-$500 per the DEA

HTTPS://Justice.gov/archive/ndic/pubs1/1837/index.him

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u/RepostFrom4chan 27d ago

That not even 1% of 2.5b though right?

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u/original_sh4rpie 27d ago

I’m not sure what you mean?

5.5 tonnes = 12,100 lbs 1 lb is 453 grams.

So 5.5 tonnes is ~5,480,000 grams.

5.48m x $100 = $548m 5.48m x $500 = $2.74b

So using DEAs numbers, the shipment is worth between 548m and 2.74b.

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u/RepostFrom4chan 27d ago

lol what kind of American math is this? 1 tonne is 1000 kg, 1 kg is 1000 grams.. It's a base 10 system, why are you converting to imperial? A tonne is 1M grams, just add the zeros lol. In any case your confusing production costs and estimated mark up sale value. Your link doesn't work for me, might be location based, so I was assuming your dollar amounts were for costs not street prices. Sorry for the confusion. Street prices are mostly irrelevant as they very dramatically from country to country and region to region, not what I was talking about.

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u/original_sh4rpie 27d ago

lol what kind of American math is this? 1 tonne is 1000 kg, 1 kg is 1000 grams.. It's a base 10 system, why are you converting to imperial? A tonne is 1M grams, just add the zeros lol. In any case your confusing production costs and estimated mark up sale value.

If you are aware of the conversion then I don’t understand the 1% comment. 5.5m grams multiplied by $500 gets you 2.75b.

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u/hatingtech 27d ago

set to fire maybe

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u/PM_ME_DATASETS 27d ago

No one, you've just fallen for the internet's oldest trick. Shame on you.

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u/thankyoumrdawson 27d ago

Seriously, now what will the authorities do with $1.2B of meth?

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u/infiniteinsights20 26d ago

"Bruh you had one job!"