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30m Long Sub Was Built To Carry 8 Tons Of Colombian Cocaine

When you need to transport eight tons of cocaine across international waters, you can’t exactly just pay an extra baggage fee. So Colombian drug lords did the sensible – and trendy – thing: they spent 4000 million pesos (approx $2.2 million) to build their own drug-trafficktacular submersible.

Colombian authorities seized the vessel before it could make its way to Mexico. And then posed for lots, and lots, and lots of pictures, because wouldn’t you? [MSNBC via BoingBoing; Photo credit: REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga]

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    Aliasalpha

    Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 3:22 PM

    Woah, do they do police sized property auctions in columbia? I want that!

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      Aliasalpha

      Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 3:27 PM

      Bah, siezed, not sized. I wouldn’t want a submarine the size of a policeman unless he was an extremely large policeman

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        Aliasalpha

        Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 4:51 PM

        Oh! I’m such a twat!! SEIZED

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    Dougally

    Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 11:19 PM

    Looks like it was a leftover from the set of McHale’s Navy, ;-)

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