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Bolivia 'Drug Dealers' Throw $1M From Plane
BBC ^ | 2 October 2013

Posted on 10/05/2013 2:27:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Suspected members of a drug trafficking gang in Bolivia have thrown a bag containing more than $1m (£615,000) from a low-flying plane.

The cash was supposed to be collected by other gang members on the ground in eastern Santa Cruz province, said Interior Minister Carlos Romero.

But they missed the target and the bag was seized by Bolivian anti-drugs police, who later made several arrests.

Bolivia is one of the world's top three cocaine producers.

The authorities say the money - in US dollar bills of various denominations - was wrapped with a seal from a bank in neighbouring Paraguay.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 10/05/2013 2:27:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SkyDancer

Ever try this?


2 posted on 10/05/2013 2:27:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway (They should call it a government shut up, not a government shut down)
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To: nickcarraway

This was done a lot in the Mena, Arkansas area when Clinton was governor there.
Unfortunately two teenage boys witnessed a drop and were promptly killed.
I haven’t forgotten stories from the old FR Clinton body count link.
Time to reopen that since Hitlery will be running soon.


3 posted on 10/05/2013 2:33:03 PM PDT by Clump ( the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
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To: Clump

What’s the big deal? Obama and Bernanke have been dropping money from airplanes for many years now.


4 posted on 10/05/2013 2:42:19 PM PDT by heye2monn
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To: nickcarraway

No but we did drop cow plops in bags from about a thousand feet at some bulls-eyes circled on the ground.


5 posted on 10/05/2013 2:42:53 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral)
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To: nickcarraway

No country for old men.


6 posted on 10/05/2013 3:14:56 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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To: nickcarraway

They must have been watching Ben Bernacke.


7 posted on 10/05/2013 4:14:52 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: nickcarraway
Bolivia and the rest of the cocaine-producing countries wouldn't be in this business unless there were a HUGE market.
OH! That's right, there IS a HUGE market: in the United States of America.

What to do? What to do? I was around in the 60's when drugs were made out to be GOOD things. I thought it was a CROCK then. I haven't changed my mind.

8 posted on 10/05/2013 7:05:36 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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