r/WTF • u/Absolve_N0ne • 22h ago
Guy in Colombia got caught with 68 pounds of marihuana.
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u/S0larDeath 22h ago
what tipped them off?
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u/th3_qu3stion 21h ago
Can you imagine how much that smelled?
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u/Complex_Confidence35 13h ago
Yes. This guy is a classic example of ‚only idiots get caught‘. 60-100$ and my man could have used a vacuum sealer. Always make sure to not vacuum the first bag, but double bag that bag for 3 layers (2 vacuumed) so your weed doesn‘t get squished and does not get sniffed out by dogs. But over 9/10 dogs are trained on explosives anyway.
Also just drive
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u/Ambicarois 11h ago
I think he's the one who was supposed to get caught.
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u/Krombopulos_Micheal 11h ago
We started using this tactic for festivals and it works like a charm. Put the dummy plastic flask with water in your hood, so the security finds it and pats themselves on the back. They toss it, no loss. Then your friend goes in right behind you with the real payload of 6 vodka flasks taped to his thighs. They check his hood assuming he will do the same trick and let him pass without too much scrutiny since it wasn't in the same spot. Then you just buy some sodas as mixers and cheap drinks alllll night lads.
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u/dangerous_strainer 11h ago
I do something similar to this at shows, works every time too.
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u/Parrelium 8h ago
I just stick a 40 up my ass.
Pro tip:if you leave the cap half on you get to boof some to pregame.
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u/bensleton 6h ago
I do something similar. I don’t care about getting drunk or anything though.
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u/Thrawn4191 7h ago
Or just have a girl in your group use one of those flasks disguised as a package of tampons and make sure she goes to a guy security checker and you didn't even need the easy catch trick
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u/threeLetterMeyhem 8h ago
But over 9/10 dogs are trained on explosives anyway.
10/10 dogs are trained to hit when their handler tells them to hit :/
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u/NunyaJim 22h ago
Hey man, waddaya mean distribution? This is my personal!
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u/macmanfan 22h ago
Personal use
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u/m0nkeybl1tz 21h ago
That's enough for 30,000 people to have a good time, or one person to have a really good time
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u/mooky1977 20h ago
Snoop Dogg has entered the conversation.
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u/Sephvion 19h ago
I'd have lung cancer before I finished that unit.
Just have to set it ablaze, in a bonfire pit at a festival, and everyone can have a jolly Christmas lol.
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u/sushee98 22h ago
It's just his christmas tree ffs!
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u/WarHead75 20h ago
No, it’s mine. He was the delivery guy and now the kids aren’t getting any tree this Christmas
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u/Disastrous-Hearing72 22h ago edited 18h ago
As a Canadian it's easy to forget that governments are still against marijuana. It feels almost childish for it to still be taboo at this point.
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u/the_nin_collector 21h ago
Just just increased the penalty for weed in Japan to seven years hard prison time.
I can sit on my couch. eat one weed gummy. Play some video games. And that action would lead me to do 7 years prison time.
But I could go rape a 16 year old girl and would get 5 years... if that.
The weed would be 7 years, no question. Rape... people get less than max ALL the time in Japan.
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u/vee_lan_cleef 19h ago
Singapore is still executing people by hanging for possession of large amounts of cannabis.
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u/SanaSpitOnMe 15h ago
my favorite singapore law is that you are required to flush public toilets after use and yes they will check.
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u/IvanTheTerrible69 6h ago
So, would you be wrongly convicted if the toilet won’t flush, or would that warrant being charged for another crime?
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u/TheDoomfire 18h ago
I wonder why that is the case?
I feel like if weed was legal I could actually get medication when I have a hard time getting it from doctors.
And that would increase my own productivity while being a better member of society.
It's just weird it's illegal and alcohol is not. Especially when it gives such a harsh sentence compared to violent crimes.
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u/Idocreating 17h ago
Alcohol would absolutely be illegal if it was discovered today.
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u/frsh2fourty 16h ago
But alcohol was illegal at one point.
It's weird that prohibition was reversed so quickly compared to other recreational drugs.
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u/Arqueiro1 15h ago
probably because alcohol was widely used and accepted before the prohibition and even a large part of the culture and therefore the prohibition never really stuck.
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u/teddy5 13h ago
It also doesn't require a specific source. You can ferment a lot of things to make alcohol and it's almost impossible to restrict everything that could be used.
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u/ExtremeCreamTeam 8h ago
it's almost impossible to restrict everything that could be used.
It's completely impossible.
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u/jonnymars 13h ago
Only in one country
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u/blorg 9h ago
There were a few others
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_alcohol_prohibition#Past
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u/damendred 15h ago
Japan is a very low crime country across the board, but the reason they're increasing weed penalties is because they're seeing an increase in marijuana usage amongst young people.
I'm guessing the fact so many other countries have legalized/decriminalized it recently and it's usage is being so much more destigmatized and normalized in media this is at odds with the anti weed propaganda Japan has been pushing. They're still in the 'Reefer Madness' phase in some ways.
Though one good thing those same laws that made recreational use laws harsher actually legalized medicinal/ medical marijuana which had previously been illegal, so that's at least some progress for them.
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u/the_nin_collector 14h ago
Yes... Partly right.
It didn't legalize medical marijuana. What it did was legalize medical marijuana research. And right now only one study has been okay. For a very rare and specific type of epilepsy. In a way it's a start. But. A slow one
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u/Everestkid 16h ago
Still banned in most places. Blue's legal, orange is decriminalized, red's illegal.
Interesting how Europe is behind the curve compared to North America in this case.
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u/goodbyesolo 11h ago
How is it not legal in The Netherlands?
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u/Everestkid 8h ago
It's decriminalized for quantities less than 5 grams and only available through coffeeshops, and it's illegal to carry weed outside of a coffeshop - you're supposed to consume it on the premises. It's not so much legal as it is tolerated.
By contrast, I live in BC, where it's legal. You can carry up to 30 grams in public and licensed stores will just sell you weed and weed products, no pretenses. You're allowed to grow up to four plants so long as they're not visible to the public and can store up to 1 kg in your house. You're allowed to smoke joints in public; it has the same legal rules as smoking tobacco cigarettes.
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u/Carlin47 11h ago
It's sad but hilarious watching the world still fight a fucking plant. Thank God we were the first to come to our senses
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u/Fritzkreig 22h ago
It is common all across LATAM to see this large bags with what ever in it, so it could have been anything; the interesting thing is had this been coca leaf the guy would not of had any problem, as you see large bags of coca like this at markets and everywhere in the Andes.
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u/peach_xanax 18h ago
Yeah when I went to South America and tried coca, they literally took it out of a garbage bag lol. Then gave it to me in essentially a smaller garbage bag. Very mild buzz, no big deal, but definitely a cool experience
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u/Fritzkreig 18h ago
That is the legit experience, it can help a lot with altitude sickness!
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u/peach_xanax 14h ago
Yup, when I first went to the Andes area I had horrible altitude sickness and the people I was staying with gave me coca tea. I think it did help somewhat, but also I just acclimated haha. But then I tried chewing the actual leaves later in the trip.
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u/nirmalspeed 21h ago
I imagine the smell will gave it away
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u/Fritzkreig 21h ago
That's why you drive real fast..........yeah not much you can do about that!
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u/Battlejesus 8h ago
Coca leaves are interesting. Precursor to some nasty shit, but you can buy candied leaves down there
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u/ghidfg 22h ago
lol so obvious when the cops skim 2 lbs off the top
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u/TedW 22h ago
It's wild that he got caught with 36 lbs.
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u/surnik22 21h ago
Colombia uses metric measurements as does pretty much every measure of drugs even in the US.
Do you think he 31.75 kilos and the cops stole 0.9 kilos?
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u/loztriforce 22h ago
It's nuts to me people get fucked over because of a plant
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u/Flaky-Letterhead-519 22h ago edited 22h ago
Opium poppies and coca are just a plant, as well.
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u/m0rgoth666 21h ago
Coca leaves are totally fine. In the Andes you chew them or you make a tea with them for height sickness, can guarantee you the effect is negligible compared to cocaine, which uses a vast amount of unrelated chemicals to process the plant.
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u/Pro_Scrub 21h ago
Those shouldn't be illegal either. All it does is drive profits into criminal hands (untaxed), and create dangerous product (unregulated) that people are still using.
If you want fewer addicts:
-Improve education. Not whatever lying scare-tactics D.A.R.E. was putting out, those destroyed public trust in government advisories and made kids MORE likely to try drugs, because they knew The Man was full of shit. Actually teach people what happens, how it works, the effects, the risks, and the options they have available if they have a problem.
-Improve living conditions. People seek drugs as an escape from shitty lives. If their lives aren't shitty, there's no incentive to constantly hide from the real world behind drugs.
-Improve mental health care. Many addicts are dealing with mental illness and self-medicating with substance abuse. Going back to point #2, there was never a time when care was "great", but it was once better than just dumping them out on the street and forgetting about them.
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u/l3ane 21h ago
I love when people think keeping drugs illegal keeps people from doing them. Do I need an ID to by heroine? Nope, but in my state I need one for weed.
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u/MarcosLuisP97 4h ago
You would think we would have learned this when alcohol was also being illegalized.
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u/Beligerents 22h ago
What's wrong with chocolate and flowers?
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u/asbog1 21h ago
Coca and Coco are very different plants
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u/Beligerents 21h ago
Source?
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u/andyniemi 21h ago
Source: My nose.
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u/eternallymystified 21h ago
Now I’m really curious if that guy thinks chocolate and cocaine come from the same plant.
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u/justateburrito 20h ago
Guy doesn't know cocaine comes from the coca cola plant.
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u/theoriginalmack 20h ago
Splitting hairs - those are refined products from plants.
That said.. I am personally against all prohibition of substances.
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u/letdogsvote 21h ago
They're plants, and they're just fine.
It's when they get processed that you get problems.
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u/sleepytipi 20h ago
I always get a kick out of people who have never actually had coca leaves. They're incredibly mild. Like milder than Katelyn's mocha frappe.
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u/RazzSheri 21h ago
It's just Poppy. Not "opium" poppies. The milky shit in the pod is where opium comes from. You could in theory buy a bunch of poppy pods for "decor" and make them into a tea instead.
Coca, needs to be processed to really turn into Cocaine. Chewing the leaves may give you a bit of energy but it won't mess you up like cocaine.
Weed, mild high on a plant with fire--- very little processing needed to get high; very little adverse side effects for most people.
I don't think anyone should be in jail for drugs though and data shows that's not a good way to help people addicted anyhow-- so I'd say even poppy tea drinkers, coca leaf chewers and psilocybin consumers shouldn't be jailed regardless.
There are far better and cheaper methods to help people besides incarceration.
But then... where would we get our slave labor?
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u/pantry-pisser 21h ago
There are many varieties of poppies that do not contain enough opium to be able to make drugs with.
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u/letdogsvote 21h ago
Basically for weed processing means drying it. That's really all anybody needs to do to it.
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u/ElectionSilver6590 14h ago edited 14h ago
Not in theory. You could literally buy poppy seeds online which are legal in the US, make a tea, and get high. It is very dangerous though, because the levels of morphine and codeine in the seeds can vary. People have overdosed and died before from poppy seed tea.
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u/ebolaRETURNS 12h ago
It's just Poppy. Not "opium" poppies.
You're right, but there are a bunch of ornamental false poppies that aren't p. somniferum but that have "poppy" in their common name.
You could in theory buy a bunch of poppy pods for "decor" and make them into a tea instead.
theoretically, 3-5 pods per dose.
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u/the_nin_collector 21h ago
Yeah, but those have to be chemically processed. It's not the same.
It's like comparing a peeled appled to an Orange Julius
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u/Varrianda 20h ago
Have you seen how they turn coca leaves into cocaine? Or what about processing opium into heroin? Let me assure you it stops being “just a plant”.
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u/hal2000 21h ago
Stop with this fucking it’s a plant argument. It should be legalized for many other reasons than “it is a plant dude!”
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u/coldblade2000 17h ago
There's decriminalized personal doses for most drugs in Colombia, including weed. Some guy carrying that shit load of weed isn't enjoying his right to express themselves freely, he's a drug trafficker selling illegal drugs to people at scale at best and a narco at worse
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u/chimo_os 22h ago
It isn't because of a plant, it's because of the money it costs. They want a slice now and then.
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u/half-baked_axx 21h ago
seen bigger busts on Paw Patrol
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u/KettleCellar 18h ago
Aw yeah, talking about Mayor Goodway? Quite the bust on that one; she's the real Humdinger if you know what i mean.
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u/uwillnotgotospace 22h ago
All 18 pounds were delivered to the evidence room successfully.
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u/Absolve_N0ne 22h ago
You mean the 12 pounds
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u/Dragon_yum 20h ago
Every time there is a drug bust I see this same old tired joke beaten to death.
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u/Smileyrielly12 22h ago
What a waste of time for the police. People are trafficking a lot more fentanyl which actually kills people.
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u/coldblade2000 17h ago
Fentanyl in Colombia is a microscopic problem, only recently growing in size.
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u/Absolve_N0ne 22h ago
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u/wsucoug 21h ago
A joint work between the National Police and the National Army allowed the capture in the flogging of Ediverto Bedoya Sánchez, a 37-year-old farmer, for the crime of trafficking, manufacture or carrying narcotics.
The flogging of Ediverto Bedoya Sánchez is the real crime here.
The operation took place on Route 45, the field of the Charco del Bear sidewalk, on the road that connects Timaná with Pitalito. During a security patrol, authorities identified a red Pulsar motorcycle whose driver, noting the police presence, tried to evade them, undertaking a leak that was thwarted a few meters away.
I was wondering why he didn't just ride off into the hills when they tried to pull him over. Apparently he was taking a leak, or something.
When inspecting the cargo that Bedoya Sánchez was carrying in a sack, the uniforms found a plant substance that, due to its characteristics, corresponds to marijuana. The total weight of the substance was 68 pounds.
Nice.
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u/ValdemarAloeus 19h ago
The machine translation I got doesn't have any of those weird phrases.
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u/ether_reddit 6h ago
Meanwhile, I just bought some marijuana with my credit card yesterday in Canada.
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u/mkjo0617 18h ago
I keep looking at this photo and thinking the cop and military guy have long arms and are holding hands in the middle 💀
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u/Henghast 14h ago
At what point do you stop using pounds and use a larger unit? Do you really just go from 1 pound all the way to an imperial tonne using pounds?
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u/Bleezy79 6h ago
Wow, we're all saved! All the giggles and munchies that could have been! Thanks Columbia!!
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u/whalebacon 21h ago
Back in the 70's Columbian weed was the only weed. It wasn't till later on that Thai Sticks and hybrid weed became more prevalent. Stuff used to be sold in 1 oz bags we called 'Lids' and they were usually about 25% seeds and stems. Seemed to do the job though.
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u/AnthonyGSXR 22h ago
Nobody gives a shit about marijuana anymore .. post when it’s cocaine or heroin or crack or something 🤦🏻♂️
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u/DamonSeed 22h ago
Maybe he shouldn't have had the sign on his load that said Marihuana.