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[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 224 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Federal police are still investigating whether the aircraft was involved in drug trafficking

Um....

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 109 points 2 weeks ago

finally an article that's oniony beyond the headline

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 85 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Maybe it was just for personal use

[–] Kraiden@piefed.social 46 points 2 weeks ago

Musk's personal stash

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 24 points 2 weeks ago
  • Kash Patel on Epstein trafficking girls
[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Looks like a whole weeks supply. He’ll be devastated

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 17 points 2 weeks ago

It was headed to a Coca-Cola factory. They are adding it back along with real cane sugar.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 106 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well there goes Elon's Doordash. Definitely not getting that $10 tip now.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 77 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is ridiculous.

Elon never tips.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Not entirely true, he'll tip if you carry his baby to term. Sometimes he'll even tip in horses.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 57 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Phew, at least the SpaceX branded ketamine got through.

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 55 points 2 weeks ago

Guess Elon's weekly shipment will be late. Probably scrambling to replace it off the streets like some kind of nose-mounted vacuum cleaner.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago

oh no, Elon's weekly supply!!

[–] Jojowski@sopuli.xyz 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow! I wonder what will happen to those 178kgs of cocaine they found!

[–] ne0phyte@feddit.org 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It wouldn't even surprise me if some of the 150kg of cocaine went missing.

[–] frittoBee@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone really ought to take care of the 120 kg of cocaine.

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

80 kilos of cocaine is quite a lot, it really should be disposed of safely.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

good thing 40 kilos is exactly what fits in the evidence room

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Now, to find out who was going to receive those 20kg of cocaine

[–] admin@lemmy.today 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

All got burned with the plane on crashsite

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[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I wonder if it's a joke label or not

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 59 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Some drug traffickers use existing brands to "market" themselves.

Here's some Afghan heroin seized and destroyed by the international coalition on the Arabian Sea in 2021:

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Id ride in a bently, I wouldnt ride in a spacex or tesler

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[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Any other company and I'd probably go yeah, the dealers did that, but I wholeheartedly believe Tesla has a cocaine manufacturing department.

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[–] 69420@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I only get that Johnny Chimpo branded stuff. It's Afghanistanimation!

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[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago

It's real. I used to buy Nike brand ecstasy all the time.

If you have a Nike store in your town, I recommend you go in and ask for the triple stacks.

[–] hogmomma@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s this cursed timeline’s equivalent of Mitsubishi MDMA pills

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck yeah my guy! You brought back memories...

[–] Blackdoomax@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 weeks ago

How do they know it's a fake spaceX packaging? Seems legit to me.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 26 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

It can be one of three scenarios IMO:

A: Elon is being particularly dumb and actually produced and distributed drugs with his logo.

B: The Trump Regime created and planted these drugs to manufacture a reason to prosecute Elon.

C: Some drug distributor is a huge fan of SpaceX, or wants to deflect investigation away from their other operations.

...the world being the way it is, all three seems pretty damn plausible to me. 😕

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

D: They're branding their coke the same way that MDMA pill pressers will stamp real logos on their product to market it (without permission, of course). They usually don't do this with coke, but it's not unheard of.

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[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

definitely c. you ever seen shitty weed packaging thats an obvious reference to Rick and Morty, trump, etc? looks like that culture has made its way to cocaine now

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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I figure it's a bit more like option C, with a bit of knockoff mentality going on. You know how you can find pictures online of super cheap knockoff merch from like China or some African countries? That's what I'm thinking is going on here.

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[–] Envy@fedia.io 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Musk ain't getting shit done anytime soon

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[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Plane full of drugs crashes. Police are still investigating if it was involved in drug trafficking... what?

[–] Friendlybirdseggs@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

MDMA pills are often branded with various logos from all sorts of companies and IPs (without permission, of course), so I imagine it was something similar to that.

a pile of "Orange Teslas" MDMA pills

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Musk switching away from Ketamine?

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[–] npcknapsack@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

I thought I was clicking through to a satire site. Da fuq is this.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

How much of the product was in the pilot's system?

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