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23-08-2013, 12:01
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Registered User
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Re: Almost 750kg Cocaine on Yacht in Vanuatu
And they say you'll never see snow in Fiji.
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23-08-2013, 12:11
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Armchair Bucketeer
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Re: Almost 750kg Cocaine on Yacht in Vanuatu
Does that mean we have now won the War on Drugs?
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23-08-2013, 13:26
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Vanuatu
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Re: Almost 750kg Cocaine on Yacht in Vanuatu
Was owned by the same guy who owned Friday Freedom (busted with 300kg in Bundy 2011) Crew did a runner and abandoned the boat after FF got busted so yacht was detained & searched by Vanuatu police but nothing found. Nearly 2 years later Oz Federal Police show them a few search tricks and voila. The expat community here is a little depressed we've been so close to the snow slopes for 2 years without knowing it.
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23-08-2013, 14:11
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Cocoa, FL
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Re: Almost 750kg Cocaine on Yacht in Vanuatu
Think about return on your money if you could have bought this boat at a police sale and discovered in your rebuilding that the value of the cargo was a 1000 times your purchase price....
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23-08-2013, 17:19
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Registered User
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Re: Almost 750kg Cocaine on Yacht in Vanuatu
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Originally Posted by David_Old_Jersey
Does that mean we have now won the War on Drugs?
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No, but the War on the Terror of Not Having Enough Drugs is really coming along nicely.
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23-08-2013, 17:25
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Narragansett Bay
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Re: Almost 750kg Cocaine on Yacht in Vanuatu
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Originally Posted by David_Old_Jersey
Does that mean we have now won the War on Drugs?
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No but word has it that this year's Customs Christmas party is going to be HUGE
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23-08-2013, 19:22
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Toronto, Canada
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Posts: 1,787
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Re: Almost 750kg Cocaine on Yacht in Vanuatu
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Originally Posted by karabil
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Classifieds:
For Sale - 55ft Sailing Yacht - Fully Loaded - Price AU$370 million, negotiable.
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23-08-2013, 19:29
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Gig Harbor, WA
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Re: Almost 750kg Cocaine on Yacht in Vanuatu
Man, when the Aussie Feds have their auction, I want to be there. Where do they hold the auctions down under? Nice looking motorsailor! Phil
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23-08-2013, 19:32
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Location: Anacortes, WA
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Re: Almost 750kg Cocaine on Yacht in Vanuatu
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Originally Posted by karabil
Holy ****, australian federal police have just announced they have seized a yacht in Vanuatu that had 750kg imbedded in its keel and concreted into engine compartments. Apparently the yacht was for sale, think it was named "Mirage" anyone follow this boat across the Pacific as probably came that way.
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With that much blow on board, I'm pretty impressed they could find Vanuatu.
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24-08-2013, 03:54
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Pusher of String
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Funny!
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24-08-2013, 05:14
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Re: Almost 750kg Cocaine on Yacht in Vanuatu
if the feds are like most other cops here the real weight will never be known after all funding activities takes money and we all know the Australian government is broke so maybe the feds are going into a self funded regime I mean how ironic using cartels money to catch cartels
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24-08-2013, 05:47
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: gettin naughty on the beach in cornwall
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Re: Almost 750kg Cocaine on Yacht in Vanuatu
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Originally Posted by heres hoping
if the feds are like most other cops here the real weight will never be known after all funding activities takes money and we all know the Australian government is broke so maybe the feds are going into a self funded regime I mean how ironic using cartels money to catch cartels
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personally i think the vanuatu government should take control of it,and sell it legally alongside their hulluciogenic "kava root" products................
it would do wonders for their tourism for a couple of years
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24-08-2013, 08:30
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Re: Almost 750kg Cocaine on Yacht in Vanuatu
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Originally Posted by David_Old_Jersey
Does that mean we have now won the War on Drugs?
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We're not going to win anything if we don't get more DEA agents. So we need to steal people's money and property to fund this.
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24-08-2013, 09:02
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Eastern Tennessee
Boat: Research vessel for a university, retired now.
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Re: Almost 750kg Cocaine on Yacht in Vanuatu
I wonder if we spend more on trying to stop drugs than the value of the drugs that are smuggled. It would be interesting to know. It seems pointless to spend so much money on such an effort in futility.
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25-08-2013, 08:11
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 2,909
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Re: Almost 750kg Cocaine on Yacht in Vanuatu
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Originally Posted by David_Old_Jersey
Does that mean we have now won the War on Drugs?
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We never fought a war on drugs. It has been a mild skirmish at best.
We just had a politician (Nixon) who called it that one time because it sounded strong, and he knew the media would adopt it.
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