More roasty toasty drug runners

[justoffal]

My maritime law knowledge extends to boats driving on the left. If I was a smart smuggler, I'd apply for a charter. I always speed to my next favorite fishing spot. Doesn't everyone?

Yep ...... The fish might escape

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Whether you're fishing or running dope, being blown to smithereens can really mess up your day.

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You'd think after 20 boats, they'd learn.


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[d0gbreath]

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You'd think after 20 boats, they'd learn.


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Maybe they didn't hear about the other 19. The problem with the annihilation attack is that it destroys all of the evidence, so we have to go on someone's word.

 

[WEATHER53]

But…but…blubber but…what about their families and future generation of doctors???? Sniff for the snuffed.

 

[justoffal]

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You'd think after 20 boats, they'd learn.


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The runners are each offered 500 bucks for the run. More money than they would make in an entire year. They come from ultra poverty in the SA slums....favelas...they call them. Still though....knowing they could be torched en route has to make them think.

 

[el midgetron]

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

We need to cut off the head of the snake, not just target practice on speed boats.

As soon as he gets on a drug boat, we'll take him out!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

When my brother was in the AF he was a radar operator and said they would track the drug planes coming north but were forbidden from telling the DEA or state cops where to intercept the drugs. That changed recently, so the air traffic is stopped, the sea routes are stopped, and the wall stopped the land mules. Getting drugs thru the ports of entry is the only game in town, and the CBP is intercepting tons of drugs there, but probably not all.

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Bullshit! I ran counter-narcotic ops in 1990 in the Navy. Our radars covered most of the South American coastline and all the info was sent north. Planes flying out of Puerto Rico would intercept. Aerostat radar blimps covered the areas we couldn't. We seized boats full of drugs. Actually our Coast Guard detachment did with Navy assistance.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

My maritime law knowledge extends to boats driving on the left. If I was a smart smuggler, I'd apply for a charter. I always speed to my next favorite fishing spot. Doesn't everyone?

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Just curious!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Maybe they didn't hear about the other 19. The problem with the annihilation attack is that it destroys all of the evidence, so we have to go on someone's word.

Shhhhh! Don't tell White 6 that!

 

[dudmuck]

We need to cut off the head of the snake, not just target practice on speed boats.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

They were in boats used by drug runners, not fishing boats.

Some were in submarines.

Make it make sense that they aren't smugglers.

Don't all fishing boats do 60 knots? To catch speedy fish.

 

[Seymour Flops]

I'm actually shocked that these guys keep trying even though they know there's a pretty good chance of getting offed.

Probably sending the youngest/dumbest in the worst speedboats and spreading out the loads.

Or maybe the strikes are just scratching the surface.

Either way, it's great that we aren't taking the drug invasion lying down anymore.

 

[bdtex]

This is gonna put a real dent in the cartel money flow....

No it isn't....a drop in the bucket.

 

[justoffal]

No it isn't....a drop in the bucket.

Geez... You're probably right

 

[Leo123]

Here's what I don't get..... I am continuously being told that the sea route accounts for less than 1% of Total drug traffic. I have a hard time believing that. If it's so easy to do it by land and so difficult to do it by sea why are these guys continually risking getting killed doing it?

Could be that or getting whacked maybe.

 

[el midgetron]

No it isn't....a drop in the bucket.

Gotta start somewhere.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Don't all fishing boats do 60 knots? To catch speedy fish.

Simple fisherman, just trying to make a living have $100,000 worth of motors on their $40,000 boats, too...lol

 

[skye]

They were in boats used by drug runners, not fishing boats.

Some were in submarines.

Make it make sense that they aren't smugglers.

Yup! ^

 

[OODA_Loop]

How much does a 250hp Mercury outboard motor rigged cost?

X 4 or 5 motors ?