Cocaine

philstar

If any of you are heading down cork way, especially around mizen head, keep an eye out for two English wide boys;)

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0703/drugs.html

BTW the dolphins and whales must be out of they're heads

FunkZ

Fcukin' junkies. *snorts a line*

I read it was 45 million though earlier, unlucky people, they could've been rich!

ScumLord

I wonder did they really find all the bails, one of them must be worth at least €20,000.

Femelade

the fact that they found out about the boat by complete accident is ridiculus!
Customs have been scaled down way too much in that area, the government are totally to blame for this.
A fisherman gets penailised if he brings more fish than is on his quota back to shore, customs are always breathing down their backs, but at night time, customs boats are anchored up for the night.

philstar

ScumLord wrote:

I wonder did they really find all the bails, one of them must be worth at least €20,000.

thinkin about doing some "sea -fishin" r ya;)

layke

€105M is about €10M to these boys. The €105M is a guess as to how much money it would make on the street, not the actual cost of said nose candy.

thebaz

i predict some more feuds and executions

Duggy747

Well, there's go my weekend! *sniff*

FunkZ

layke wrote:

€105M is about €10M to these boys. The €105M is a guess as to how much money it would make on the street, not the actual cost of said nose candy.

Somebody is a bit of a dealer? :cool:

Get 'em boys!

Orange69

layke wrote:

€105M is about €10M to these boys. The €105M is a guess as to how much money it would make on the street, not the actual cost of said nose candy.

Ya and i would say that the "estimated street value" is exaggerated out of all proportion by the guards...

Apparently cocaine is big in Ireland now.. has anyone experienced this?

ScumLord

To true, they at least quadrubile the price.

philstar wrote:

thinkin about doing some "sea -fishin" r ya;)

Oh ya, there's probably a lot of "fishermen" down there already using a rolled up 50 for bait.

Spud83

think a trip to cork is in order. wonder if this guy will keep me any.

Orange69

alanmurphy83 wrote:

think a trip to cork is in order. wonder if this guy will keep me any.

is that a cfl bulb he is using there!?!

Spud83

Orange69 wrote:

is that a cfl bulb he is using there!?!

If it works who cares.

Winters

Orange69 wrote:

is that a cfl bulb he is using there!?!

Looks like it.

All the work these guys did making it is gone to waste.

Degsy

ScumLord wrote:

To true, they at least quadrubile the price.

And the rest,they work out what it'd be worth at street level when bagged up into one gram deals @60 a pop.Its much,much cheaper to buy in quantity.Lets say between 20,000-40,000 a kilo.Mix that up with filler and you get two kilos for that price,hit it again and you've got four kilos.By the time its at one-ounce levels its probably no more than 20% pure and an ounce costs about a grand and each ounce contains about 30 grams.At 60 euro a gram you can make double your money if you sell it as it is but you can make three or four times that if you step on the product again to increase its weight.When cops talk of 60 million worth of stuff it might well be worth no more than two million at wholesale prices.Also anybody who says they've had good cociane in ireland is deluding themselves,its usually about 10% or less actaul coke,and in order to get good stuff you need to buy it by the kilo.

Blackpitts

The UN World Drug Report yesterday placed Ireland on a global drugs map among the world’s top five with “large increases” in cocaine use.

http://www.examiner.ie/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=ireland-qqqm=ireland-qqqa=ireland-qqqid=35940-qqqx=1.asp

humanji

Blackpitts wrote:

The UN World Drug Report yesterday placed Ireland on a global drugs map among the world’s top five with “large increases” in cocaine use.

http://www.examiner.ie/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg=ireland-qqqm=ireland-qqqa=ireland-qqqid=35940-qqqx=1.asp

Shouldn't that now be lowered since all that cocaine isn't going to be used?

Spud83

humanji wrote:

Shouldn't that now be lowered since all that cocaine isn't going to be used?

isn't it?????

Thrill

alanmurphy83 wrote:

think a trip to cork is in order.

It might be worth having a nose around.

alanmurphy83 wrote:

wonder if this guy will keep me any.

:D

Great pic. He looks determined to sniff the lot up.

GhostInTheRuins

What I find ironic is that the two guys that survived their boat sinking will probably be murdered for ****ing up and losing somebody a hell of a lot of money.

ScumLord

I'm surprised anyone went for help, I doubt all these guys where the best of friends considering the buisness their in and then there's the law finding all that coke and then there's the crims that you lost all the coke on. I guess drug dealers aren't as bad people as the media lets on.

Slow Motion

Have to say when I heard this on the news I "Snorted" with laughter !



Alright ! Alright I'm gettin me coat

Agamemnon

That was baaaaaaaad. You must feel like a proper charlie now.





That's my coat on the left there, the brown one. Thanks. Bye...

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4

The drugs were found after a dinghy capsized.

a dinghy:eek:

Slow Motion

agamemnon wrote:

That was baaaaaaaad. You must feel like a proper charlie now.

Hardly a great line !:D


Getting my other coat

Wertz

It just shows the cowboy eejits that are taking this stuff in, when they'll try and load a ton on to an inflatable in rough seas and then call the f*cking coastguard when they end up in the water. Whoever rang them would be better off drowned, if his boss ever get's a grip of him..
Imagine the amount of these that don't get caught...

Dudess

agamemnon and Slow Motion, some fantastic punnery there. Can I join in? *starts a long think to come up with some killer material*

Agamemnon

You're more than welcome, Dudess. Just don't blow it.





I'll get Dudess's coat, just to save the lady the embarrassment later. Gentleman I am.

Robbo

Well that's the Deep Purple reunion ruined. There'll be no Coke on the Water...

Ithankyou.

stovelid

Thankfully, it's the summer holidays. The Famous Five can be sent down to camp on that stretch of coast.

Thrill

The secret seven are already there, drinking lemonade, eating cakes and getting high on whatever they can get their hands on.

stovelid

thrill wrote:

The secret seven are already there, drinking lemonade, eating cakes and getting high on whatever they can get their hands on.

sssh! What is it Timmy? Cocaine smugglers in an common, overloaded dinghy? Come on everyone!

Tha Gopher

Orange69 wrote:

Ya and i would say that the "estimated street value" is exaggerated out of all proportion by the guards...

Apparently cocaine is big in Ireland now.. has anyone experienced this?

Massive, although despite the news articles where the journo seemingly gets a massive horn about talking about 17 year old girls in coked up orgies in Foxrock, from my experience its far bigger in working class areas. Most well heeled UCD types I know (girls at least) either wouldnt touch the stuff or have never tried it more than once out of curiousity. In my view from parties Ive been at over the last while its declining in popularity in Dublin (presumably everyone realised its sh1te), and E`s are making somewhat of a comeback in both popularity and availabillity, but down the country, where even as late as last year it was something with a very intermittent supply, coke is all over the place. Wouldnt be surprised if more of your average northside large scale distributors profits come from the north facing counties like Louth and Cavan rather than local dealers.

As said the street value thing isnt how much the lads would have made. 1.5 tonnes equals 1500 kilos (cheers Google, I bet you even know the secret of life and where the Holy Grail is hidden ). 1 kilo, broke into 1000 60 euro 1 gram deals, is therefore regarded as a kilo being worth 60,000 euro. And that doesnt take into account cutting it, and most in Ireland is cut to pieces. A kilo can be bought for 2000 in Colombia, so its possible there is no more than a 3 million investment here. Alot to lose, but if the same guys have managed to pull this off before its not a huge loss.

Thrill

Tha Gopher wrote:

Alot to lose, but if the same guys have managed to pull this off before its not a huge loss.

True. this may have been just a routine delivery gone wrong. Who knows how many successful shipments have been made using that route before coming a cropper now.

That said, it may be awhile before another route can replace that one and that loss could end up being a lot more expensive for the drug dealers in the long run than the loss of the cocaine on this shipment.

Tha Gopher

http://www.unodc.org/pdf/research/wdr07/WDR_2007_3.5.1_annual_prevalence.pdf

Why are these surveys always so far off the mark? Every drug bar Cannabis in Ireland is 2.5% of below. More than 2.5% are off their tits on a Tuesday sitting at home, never mind the weekend. And the East European figures, nearly all zero point something for speed and ecstasy? ffs Poland has the lowest on the list for e use Presumably its because the government deported the thousands of the raver minority to Ireland

Mossy Monk

Tha Gopher wrote:

Why are these surveys always so far off the mark?

They should use your accurate survey results.

Tha Gopher

Mossy Monk wrote:

They should use your accurate survey results.

Common sense would say its more accurate.

You think only one in 20 people in the mentioned age group has smoked hash in Ireland in the past year? From skangers to students I would be hard pressed to think of more than a handful of people under their mid 30s who wouldnt have the odd toke.

Cool_CM

Haha, reminds me of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBccqoJ2LDs
Except instead of Cork it's Scotland and Coke its heroin

StephenC_IRL

those guys who almost drowned will wish they did or want to be sent to prison, whoevers drugs they were, those lads are going to be shot no matter what they do

dermo88

Makes you think about that little smoking ban we have. We were better off with dangerous legal stuff that we knew was bad for us. So as you sew, so shall you reap.

Ireland and its smoking ban can go take a running jump!!!!

ixoy

Having a look at the headlines, the value was €50m in the Metro, €100m in the Irish Times, revving up to about €170m or so in the Irish Independent and into the upper atmosphere with €315m in the Sun. What a wide range of calculating street value..

sonners

ixoy wrote:

Having a look at the headlines, the value was €50m in the Metro, €100m in the Irish Times, revving up to about €170m or so in the Irish Independent and into the upper atmosphere with €315m in the Sun. What a wide range of calculating street value..

glad I'm not buying coke off the Sun :rolleyes:

rain on

woman i work with lives down the road from where this happened. apparently the place was completely crawling with helicopters this morning. cue many hints about how no-one minds if she's late to work as long as she goes fishing first.

Schlemm

If the bags had ripped and some unsuspecting fish had swallowed some coke and then got caught by an unsuspecitng fisherman and then consumed by an unsuspecting member of the general public, would there be any ill effects???

sonners

Schlemm wrote:

If the bags had ripped and some unsuspecting fish had swallowed some coke and then got caught by an unsuspecitng fisherman and then consumed by an unsuspecting member of the general public, would there be any ill effects???

Or better yet, if you were to be caught with cocaine in your system, could you just say you had fish fingers for dinner??

Orange69

dermo88 wrote:

Makes you think about that little smoking ban we have. We were better off with dangerous legal stuff that we knew was bad for us. So as you sew, so shall you reap.

Ireland and its smoking ban can go take a running jump!!!!

Cigarettes are still legal man..:rolleyes: You just cant smoke in public establishments..

Its not like the minute the smoking ban took effect everyone ran out looking for cocaine and heroin..

Imo the prohibition of any drugs is doomed to failure..people love the stuff!

workaccount

StephenC_IRL wrote:

those guys who almost drowned will wish they did or want to be sent to prison, whoevers drugs they were, those lads are going to be shot no matter what they do

Your not the first person to have said this but I don't believe people are killed for this kind of thing. They messed up and they will go to prison. If they don't talk why would the leaders kill them.

People only get killed from internal feuds, turf wars and if they disrespect the gang or damage the business intentionally unless the gang is being run by complete wackos. A good gang will be business orientated so decisions should be taken from a business POV. Killing these guys would be illogical...imagine the media coverage!!!

Kinetic^

dermo88 wrote:

Makes you think about that little smoking ban we have. We were better off with dangerous legal stuff that we knew was bad for us. So as you sew, so shall you reap.

Ireland and its smoking ban can go take a running jump!!!!

LMFAO, man you need to lay of the cocaine!!!!!!!!!:rolleyes:

melekalikimaka

Tha Gopher wrote:

Massive, although despite the news articles where the journo seemingly gets a massive horn about talking about 17 year old girls in coked up orgies in Foxrock,

LMAO

but yes i agree with you, I blame J1's to the US, i think they get spoilt over there come back with the addiction and get sh1te shoved up their snot

whiskeyman

So will there be another big replacement shipment due in for *that festival* this weekend or what? Babyshambles are playing ya know...