Opinions - What would you do if you found 30Kg of cocaine

[bertiebasset]

Ok, hypothetical question. You are wallking along the beach one day, it's a nice spring day and nobody else is around. You notice something bobbing on the shore. You walk up to the object and soon realise you have stumbled across 30 Kg of pure cocaine. That would have a street value of more than a million pounds here in the UK. What do you do next ? I have been thinking about this a lot recently. Part of me says "Hand it over to the police, they would probably give you a relatively small cash reward and your concience would be clear. But then there is this other part of me that says "There is a lifetimes supply of coke there" "You could have the party of your life" Initially I thought if I took it home I would just chip myself off a line like once a week for the rest of my life (I have only ever tried coke once years ago and I only had about half a line) and keep absolutely quiet about it, not tell anyone. However, after reading through the posts in this forum I realise this kind of self control would be impossible. I would quickly become a massive coke head! What do you think? What would the alternatives be? What would you do ?

[jilola]

Having read the opening someone might dump the entire lot into the sea?

[bertiebasset]

This kind of thing does happen.

[jilola]

Not to anyone swim might know.
Should something like this happen to someone it could be either boon or doom. Swim would immediately dump such find.

[bertiebasset]

Why? What are you scared of exactly ? If you want to take the moral route then the best thing to do would be to call the police and let them know. You have your car parked up on the cliff top. You don't live nearby.. You could just take a 1Kg brick if you liked..

[Clif]

I would have to agree with jilola. I wouldn't be afraid of the cops so much as the owners of the coke coming to find their product.

[bertiebasset]

Would you really be that scared ? Like I said, in my hypothetical situation there is no one around, you can take as much as you feel comfortable with and you can make a quick getaway.. Surely you wouldn't be in that much danger? I mean, they lost the stuff in the first place, so it's unlikely they are going to be nearby isn't it ?

[RaverHippie]

Too much trouble to deal with. IF a single buyer were to be found for the whole lot it is possible that it is an undercover buyer, or they are big enough to rough you up and take it at gun point. If attempted to sell that much on your own then there is a huge opportunity to get caught. Keeping a life-destroying addictive substance is out of the question.

That's why SWIM would just leave it.

[jilola]

Originally Posted by bertiebasset

Why? What are you scared of exactly ? If you want to take the moral route then the best thing to do would be to call the police and let them know. You have your car parked up on the cliff top. You don't live nearby.. You could just take a 1Kg brick if you liked..

Cos swim would probably not feel he could trust himself to keep things under control. Nothing to do with morals or legalities.

[Benga]

last time i hear of a story like this it was a man who found a bale of a few kilos of cocaine a beach on France's atlantic coast. apparently happens often since the trade routes have been partly redirected.
the man apparently took the thing home, and then reported it to the police the next day. The police said they could see the bale had been opened and a few grams taken.
as for swim, no clue, this is a "cross the bridge when you get to it and find 30kg of cocaine" kind of situation.

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[The_Tortured_Soul]

SWIM would just become a coke head with no financial responsiblities for a while then eventually get tired of the lifestyle and sell the remainder of it dirt cheap to somebody trustworthy. You only live once, it is hypothetical, no one is around, the situation is perfect, and life is about taking chances and risk anyway. SWIM would definitely take it.

[chinpokomaster]

Originally Posted by bertiebasset

What would you do ?

Let's just say, I don't think SWIM's heart could take that kind of "surprise".

[Aar0n]

This happened pretty recently in the UK. A parish clerk found two huge bales of it, and the article states two 50lb packs were confirmed to be cocaine, with THREE MORE awaiting to be testing. Link here.

Originally Posted by The_Tortured_Soul

SWIM would just become a coke head with no financial responsiblities for a while

Thats what SWIM'd do. Have massive cocaine parties etc. etc.

[drab4]

Yeah I was about to mention the above news story. Happened in Cornwall very recently

I have a good friend who lives close to where this happened, and he said that at the time of the event, there were many hundreds of people out in little boats and roaming the coast in a vain attempt to get in on the find. Even people from quite far afield went out on day trips. There was also a large police presence just in case anyone did find anything

Unlike the masses, my good friend did not bother going out on searches. The chances of getting lucky would have been minimal to say the least

As for the original question, I read in a book that if someone was to somehow find a large amount of any drug, he would sell it. The guy in the book wants the money more than he wants the drugs

[fnord]

Turning it over to the police is equivilent to support for the drug war,at the very least it should be given away freely at clubs/festivals or to friends,starting a cocaine habit with that much cocaine sitting around is also out of the quuestion, Maybe even a mass mailing of "free cocaine samples" Some money would fund grandmas habitual alcoholism, to do this she would get in contact with several local brewers she knows and offer them piles of cocaine to produce grandma 100's of gallons of moonshine and beer. Other money would probably go towards some sort of weird street theter involing animal costumes. Alternativly someone could easily fill the needs of the internet black market with so much cocaine.

Bales of cocaine are found all the time,some towns/vilages along trade routes where smuglers are known for dropping bales over the boat when being chased are funded by people finding what they call "the white lobster" selling it then becoming rich and donating money to there comunity. Nobody cares that the money came from drugs because they see the positive progress that is made in there town due to the new library books or clean drinking water,or medications for children.

Centuries of troubles have bobbed on the waves off the Mosquito Coast: Christopher Columbus, the Spanish conquest, pirates, slave ships. For the fishing villages scattered across these remote central American shores there was seldom reason to welcome visits from the outside world.
But that was before the "white lobster", and before everything changed. Now the villagers rise at first light to scan the horizon in hope of seeing a very different type of intruder.

What they are looking for, and what they have coyly euphemised, are big, bulging bags of Colombian cocaine. A combination of law enforcement, geography and ocean currents has washed tonnes of the drug, and millions of dollars, into what was one of the Caribbean's most desolate and isolated regions. Villages that once eked an existence on shrimp and red-tinged lobster have been transformed. In place of thatched wooden huts there are brick houses, mansions and satellite dishes.

"They consider it a blessing from God. You see people all day just walking up and down the beaches keeping a lookout to sea," said Louis Perez, the police chief in Bluefields, the main port on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast.

Colombian speedboats hug the coastline so closely that this narco-route to the US is known as the "country road". With 800-horsepower outboard motors, the so-called "go fasts" can usually outrun US and Nicaraguan patrols. But on occasion they are intercepted, not least when US snipers hit their engines. "Then they throw the coke overboard to get rid of the evidence," said a European drug enforcement official based in the region. "Other times it's because they run out of fuel or have an accident."

Currents carry the bales towards the shore. A decade ago many of the indigenous Miskito people had not even heard of cocaine. Some 15 people in the village of Karpwala are said to have died after mistaking the contents of a bale for baking powder.

That innocence is long gone. Colombian traffickers and Nicaraguan middlemen trawl villages offering finders $4,000 (£1,960) a kilo, said Major Perez - seven times less than the US street value but a fortune to a fisherman.

Tasbapauni, a sleepy hamlet a three-hour motorboat ride from Bluefields, is a cocaine version of Whisky Galore!, the 1940s tale of a Hebridean island which salvages a shipwrecked cargo of booze and plays cat-and-mouse with the authorities to keep it.

Posh hotels

Some locals who used to be in rags live it up at posh hotels in Bluefields and Managua, others stock up on wide-screen TVs and expensive beer. With its creole English and African slave descendants, the community feels more Jamaican than Nicaraguan. Its high-rolling reputation has earned Tasbapauni the nickname Little Miami. That's an exaggeration. There is still plenty of poverty and barefoot children and there are no roads or vehicles and little to break the silence except lapping surf, clucking chickens and the occasional thud of a falling coconut. But things are different. "Today the toiling is easier. Life is plenty better than before," said Percival Hebbert, 84, a Moravian Church pastor and village leader. "The community is like this: you find drugs, this one find drugs, the next one find drugs - that money is stirring right here in the community, going round and round."

The white lobster was a blessing, he said, as long as the bonanza was spent wisely. "Almost all you see with a good home, a good cement home, those are the ones who find them things."

The church had just installed a shiny white floor thanks to a donation from a fisherman, Ted Hayman, who reputedly hauled in 220kg (485lb). Mr Hayman chose the colours and tiles himself. "He's a kind man," said Mr Hebbert.

He was grateful but lamented the church's cut was not greater. "God says that 10% of whatever you earn is his. But no one do that here." Villages further north oblige finders to give a tenth of the proceeds to the church and at least another tenth to neighbours.

Mr Hayman, 37, Tasbapauni's most "blessed" fisherman, has converted his shack into a three-storey mansion with iron gates, a satellite dish and architecture best described as narc-deco. A sign identifies the residence as Hayman Hi.

Garrison

Mr Hayman's sister, Maria, 40, said cocaine was the source of the wealth - and philanthropy. "Him always try to help the people. Him help the sick, the widows, the church, anybody."

A short stroll from Hayman Hi is a 30-strong army garrison tasked with combating drug trafficking. It is as laid back as the rest of Tasbapauni. You could not prosecute someone for becoming rich, said the commander, Edwin Salmeron. "If we don't capture them with the drugs there's nothing we can do."

Given the poverty and decades of government neglect it was "understandable but not justified" that the cocaine was sold on, said Moises Arana, a former Bluefields mayor. "There is no shame. It's almost an innocence - they don't understand the consequences."

Increasingly, however, a dark side is emerging. Not all the cocaine is shipped north. Some is turned into crack and sold locally, producing the skinny, ragged youths who haunt Bluefields' slums. The town jail is crammed with alleged addicts and pushers awaiting trial.

"With crack you lose your pride, you lose your money, everything," said Randolph Carter, 50, a former addict. In 2004 traffickers shot off his arm while looking for another addict who had reneged on a promise to fuel their boat. "Cocaine is not a blessing. It can destroy you," said Mr Carter.

Corruption allows traffickers to buy their way out of trouble. In 2004 a gang took over Bluefields' police station and cut the throats of four officers. No one has been charged for what is assumed to be a drug-related atrocity.

To many, however, cocaine promises deliverance from poverty. Marvin Hoxton, 37, a lobster diver, once discovered a 72kg bale. Thieves forced him to hand over 70kg at gunpoint but he sold the remainder for $5,000. It lasted two months. "Drinking, dancing, women, the dollars fly," he rued.

Now broke and back living with his mother, Mr Hoxton had a plan: to fill his wooden skiff with supplies and camp out on a remote beach for six months. He will string a hammock between two coconut trees, listen to his transistor radio and keep his eyes on the ocean.

"You can't know when you might get it," he said, staring at his beer, as if mini-bales were floating inside the bottle. "You have to wait. Wait for it to come."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007...l.mainsection2

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	Good read :)
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[Metomni]

That's like asking what SWIM would do if he found a briefcase with a million dollars in it. That's enough to be financially secure for years.

And fnord, that is some awesome information.

[Nahbus]

SWIM would keep at least some, if not all of it, hide it in a very safe place. Never tell a soul.
He doesn't like coke, so every now and then, to trustworthy people he would make a trade for weed, heroin, pills, money, or anything else people are willing to trade for coke.
He would try not to do much, if any of it, because he would just keep going and going (unless he had a speedball every now and then )

He would definitely keep it and hide it, and never tell ANYONE though.

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[sneak2012]

FUCKIN SNIFFFFFF DAT SHIT!

30kg of coke, fuckin ell i cant even imagine the party i would have with that...

[The_Tortured_Soul]

Originally Posted by Aar0n

This happened pretty recently in the UK. A parish clerk found two huge bales of it, and the article states two 50lb packs were confirmed to be cocaine, with THREE MORE awaiting to be testing. Link here.


Thats what SWIM'd do. Have massive cocaine parties etc. etc.

Coke parties!
Hells Yeah!

[sknkv2]

SWIM would keep enough for himself and his friends and just sell the rest off for real cheap as soon as possible.

[chinpokomaster]

I wonder if that Clerk will be serving Vin Mariani as communion wine. Should keep the numbers up at Church.

[mitchellca]

Wow, that'd be a tough one for sure. I think swim would just chip of a few grams and leave the rest perhaps.

[ThizzMonster44]

Nahbus thats a very good idea. SWIM would keep some an also trade for other things.

[The_Tortured_Soul]

SWIM would trade some off for Heroin. I'd have coke parties with my friends and sexy whores. Sell some real cheep, and give some away.

[cyndi]

Make some badly needed money. Swim doesn't see the appeal in blow.