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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Mucho dinero

A reader sends along these photos, which he tells us (and he's always reliable) are "from a drug house raided by Mexico's special organized crime task force":

That ain't hay!

Posted at 12:31 PM | Permalink

Comments (24)

Anybody want to take a guess at how much money that is?

Posted by expdx | June 28, 2007 1:11 PM

Close to a hundred mil?

Posted by Eric | June 28, 2007 1:19 PM

enough to fully fund the Fire & Police Disability Fund's looming liabilities?

maybe?

Posted by rr | June 28, 2007 1:20 PM

You sure that's not George Soros's petty cash box?

Posted by Chris McMullen | June 28, 2007 1:34 PM

Rupert Murdoch's "walkin' around" money.

Posted by PMG | June 28, 2007 1:45 PM

They are here only do do jobs Americans wont do, not sell drugs.

Posted by todd | June 28, 2007 1:55 PM

$205.6 Million US Dollars
200,000 Euros
157,500 Pesos

What do I win?!?

http://www.snopes.com/photos/crime/drugmoney.asp

Posted by Brian Bain | June 28, 2007 1:57 PM

There is about $50M or so there..

And that $50M looks remarkably similar to the $50M that was stolen from my basement not too long ago by drug dealers.. I wonder if they will give it back if I can describe it?

Posted by Anthony | June 28, 2007 2:00 PM

so many Bens, so little time

Posted by tbryan | June 28, 2007 2:17 PM

Anyone can tell that's Paul Allen's bed. Now we know what his "sleep number" is!

Posted by BobM | June 28, 2007 2:25 PM

"They are here only do do jobs Americans wont do, not sell drugs."

Yeah, 'cause NO drugs come in from Canada.

Posted by Hula | June 28, 2007 2:46 PM

Nobody smokes brown mexican weed, its the meth stupid.

Posted by todd | June 28, 2007 3:41 PM

Getting called "stupid" by someone that can't take the time to type apostrophes or commas: priceless.

Posted by Hula | June 28, 2007 4:17 PM

Who do you think is buying all the drugs, todd?
Who is employing the immigrants?
Why are you blaming Mexicans for an American problem?

Posted by Hula | June 28, 2007 4:22 PM

You found Sam's stash for the next tram. This is all the water bills they've diverted.

Posted by Steve | June 28, 2007 4:28 PM

did not know this was english class 101, Hul"a is that better!?

Posted by todd | June 28, 2007 4:32 PM

Wonder what that pile looked like before the photographer and commanding officers arrived...

Posted by Cabbie | June 28, 2007 5:42 PM

Why are you blaming Mexicans for an American problem?
Because the majority of the meth is coming from Mexico.

If you don't believe the DEA stats how about PBS:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/etc/updmexico.html

Posted by Pat | June 28, 2007 8:18 PM

Uh Pat the point was that drugs are a demand problem.

Posted by Eric | June 28, 2007 9:59 PM

Haah, That’s just the increase in profit from when Our Governor outsourced all the meth production to Mexico.

Posted by Lc Scott | June 28, 2007 10:05 PM

In the population study of a sample of 55,322 illegal aliens, researchers found that they were arrested at least a total of 459,614 times, averaging about 8 arrests per illegal alien. Nearly all had more than 1 arrest. Thirty-eight percent (about 21,000) had between 2 and 5 arrests, 32 percent (about 18,000) had between 6 and 10 arrests, and 26 percent (about 15,000) had 11 or more arrests. Most of the arrests occurred after 1990

Posted by todd | June 29, 2007 6:38 AM

Arrested for....? Driving without a license? Murder? Kinda vague.

And I'm not sure how that relates to Americans buying drugs that come from Mexico.

Posted by Hula | June 29, 2007 6:47 AM

Source?

Posted by Allan L. | June 29, 2007 8:37 AM

Since the Mexican military has been compromised & has been observed escorting drugs near the US border, perhaps a bit of turnabout is in order.

Let a few of the SF gentlemen from the Amphib Warfare base at Coronado go for a nightnight stroll south of the border. A few duffle bags, a short helicopter ride & our border fence is paid for.

Posted by HMLA267 | June 29, 2007 2:44 PM

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