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June 11, 2010 2:34 PM   Subscribe

"The money and valuables found in this one house alone, would be enough to pay for health insurance for every man woman and child in the U.S.A. for 12 years. There are believed to be approximately 27 more of these houses." Scenes from the domestic life of a Mexican drug lord.
posted by william_boot (34 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This appears to be scenes from the forum life of a random internet crank mostly. -- cortex



 
Seems like kind of overstatement - $22M in cash and maybe a few M more in blinged-out guns? I dunno how much insurance that's going to buy.
posted by GuyZero at 2:39 PM on June 11, 2010


Wow, $27 trillion dollars in one house! That's a lot!
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 2:39 PM on June 11, 2010 [6 favorites]


If it only cost $100/year to insure someone, then it would cost $360 billion ensure the USA's 300 million residents for 12 years. It costs more than $100/year.

Crackpot pro-drug war loon is crackpot.
posted by hincandenza at 2:40 PM on June 11, 2010 [7 favorites]


Wow! This looks like a profitable business. How can I get involved?
posted by Mental Wimp at 2:41 PM on June 11, 2010 [7 favorites]


So why isn't this money funnelled directly into the areas that need the most funding?
posted by Fizz at 2:41 PM on June 11, 2010


Or what everyone else is saying. That end line about "this is why the drug war is so hard to fight" pretty much tells you what you need to know.
posted by hincandenza at 2:42 PM on June 11, 2010 [1 favorite]


So, if we legalized, regulated and taxed recreational drugs we could actually pay for health care? What a concept!
posted by loquacious at 2:42 PM on June 11, 2010 [19 favorites]


The only thing I found truly disturbing was the fact that they burned down the entire house after the raid. Is that common practice??
posted by bahama mama at 2:43 PM on June 11, 2010


Wow, $27 trillion dollars in one house! That's a lot!
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 2:39 PM on June 11 [+] [!]


And yet, they BURNED IT ALL DOWN! I think some better forensic financial techniques could have been used.
posted by helmutdog at 2:45 PM on June 11, 2010 [1 favorite]


Flagged as batshitmistaken. Nice cats!
posted by finite at 2:47 PM on June 11, 2010


The only thing I found truly disturbing was the fact that they burned down the entire house after the raid. Is that common practice??

I think it's more likely that someone making an unattributed post on a comment board would not feel too bad about inserting some unrelated images for effect.
posted by Think_Long at 2:48 PM on June 11, 2010


I knew a lower middle level coke dealer for awhile. Once I went over to his house and he's counting out 50K in twenty dollar bills. He's not having a good time at this, and he mutters, "I hate fucking twenties!" more than once.

Handling cash is work, but I guess when it's YOURS, then that would be different.
posted by Danf at 2:48 PM on June 11, 2010


This would be like the government sending paramilitary strike forces to shut down every website except metafilter, then bemoaning the fact that Mathowie owns 39 mansions, bathes in caviar, and operates a cocaine-frosted Doritos cartel for fun.

The drug war makes drug lords rich (the ones that are still alive, that is).
posted by Salvor Hardin at 2:49 PM on June 11, 2010 [4 favorites]


So, if we legalized, regulated and taxed recreational drugs we could actually pay for health care? What a concept!

Man I love this because it is the opposite of what this guy would say.
posted by shakespeherian at 2:49 PM on June 11, 2010 [3 favorites]


"I hate fucking twenties!"

Not enough margin to buy a machine to do that?
posted by GuyZero at 2:49 PM on June 11, 2010 [2 favorites]


This frankly smacks of utter bullshit. It appears to be a bunch of photos cobbled together from different sources in order to attempt (and fail) to create a narrative with some sort of lesson. Additionally, the completely inaccurate claims about the cost of health-care do not lend any credibility to the rest of the "story."
posted by Nothing... and like it at 2:51 PM on June 11, 2010


This pile of cash before it was counted was estimated to be approximately 18 Million Dollars!
After it was counted it turned out to be a little more than 22 Million Dollars!

The second exclamation mark is the best part of that post.

Also the part where I was like, "strange...what odd, tube-shaped handgun is tha OMG ITS A STREET SWEEPER"
posted by circular at 2:51 PM on June 11, 2010


Additionally, the completely inaccurate claims about the cost of health-care do not lend any credibility to the rest of the "story."

It doesn't help when there's a photo of a bunch of twenties and the caption says 'Each of these stacks of $100 bills is worth a quarter million dollars.' Which is especially odd after the briefcase filled with $100s is declared to be a half million.
posted by shakespeherian at 2:53 PM on June 11, 2010 [1 favorite]


Not to mention the (not pictured) piles of "Chinese yen."
posted by Nothing... and like it at 2:55 PM on June 11, 2010 [1 favorite]


The link seems to lack credibility.

It's weird that the OP in that forum sees all of those pictures and says "the drug war is worth fighting," and I see all of those pictures and say "look at the way that the drug war directs all of this money, that's an insane waste."
posted by codacorolla at 2:55 PM on June 11, 2010 [1 favorite]


Well, I went to Snopes and verified it's true. Anxiously awaiting this email from my right wing father in law.
posted by uaudio at 2:57 PM on June 11, 2010


Now this Forum is Pro Gun for Hunters Target Shooters and Legal Collectors . You can Log in and see are Outdoors Section to Prove it .

Don't know if this is true - that these photos are published as gun porn - but it kinda looks that way. Hmmm.
posted by kozad at 2:59 PM on June 11, 2010


It has a man cave. No mention of barracudas.
posted by stbalbach at 3:06 PM on June 11, 2010


Tango's posts at "Ultimate Hot Rod House" are always the best. I guess that's why he's the administrator.
posted by xod at 3:11 PM on June 11, 2010 [3 favorites]


"Handling cash is work, but I guess when it's YOURS, then that would be different."

I guess they can't just use a bank. But when you've got 22 million dollars in cash just laying around the house, how do keep your servants and criminal associates from pilfering it left and right? I mean, the guys wrapping the money say there's 22 million, but how do you know it wasn't originally 23? Heck, anybody could walk by the table and steal a few thousand and you'd never know.
posted by Kevin Street at 3:12 PM on June 11, 2010


This post is an interesting collary to the recent "Collapsitarian" thread... living proof that no matter how many guns and ammo you have stored, or how much money you have, there is little to stop armed men from taking it away.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 3:16 PM on June 11, 2010


Wow, and to think, if drugs were legal, all that money would be spent on taxable goods and services.

Nah, fuck it, let's keep drugs illegal and let the criminals have all the money. I mean, we'd only use it to pay for roads and healthcare and shit. Who would be left to buy panthers and gold-plated guns?
posted by Afroblanco at 3:19 PM on June 11, 2010


Drug lords have money bins. Scrooge McDuck has a money bin. Therefore, Scrooge McDuck is a drug lord.
posted by quadog at 3:20 PM on June 11, 2010 [2 favorites]


Scrooge McDuck is a drug lord.

I can't believe the DEA missed this. I mean he was swimming around in a big pile of coins right in the intro.
posted by tuck_nroll at 3:24 PM on June 11, 2010


Although I have to say, this picture threw me, mostly because of the caption, "7 Lions were on the property"

What I want to know is, how does someone arrive at the decision to buy a 7th lion?

"Honey, I know we said that we'd stop at six. And I fully well intended on doing so. But the kids are growing up, we've got a third one on the way, business is doing well, and we ain't getting any younger. Honey, I think it's time for a seventh lion."
posted by Afroblanco at 3:30 PM on June 11, 2010 [2 favorites]


Holy crap! The Snopes link says the ring started in 2004, and was busted in early 2007. So 3 years from becoming a drug lord to having $207 million in cash stuffed in the walls of your house. I'm in the wrong business.
posted by bakerybob at 3:33 PM on June 11, 2010


I guess you need an odd number of lions (even number plus one chairlion) to make sure there's no ties.
posted by Kevin Street at 3:34 PM on June 11, 2010 [2 favorites]


Yeah, well, being a drug lord is like being a software startup: a few make it big, most languish in obscurity or fail. And a handful get shot by their suppliers.
posted by GuyZero at 3:41 PM on June 11, 2010 [1 favorite]


Related.

I didn't know those scum actually attacked and killed people in rehab centres. That's fucking low.
posted by Anything at 3:48 PM on June 11, 2010


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