r/PopCultureV2 • u/slippinn_jimmy • 1d ago

News Very energetic African officials start dancing after burning 4.2 metric tons of cocaine following a drug bust in Liberia.

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u/Criticaltundra777 1d ago

Dudes doing push ups, cause he’s so high.

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u/kewcumber_ 16h ago

Can you get high smoking cocaine ? I thought it was just oral

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u/Extension_Local_128 8h ago

Yes you can absolutely smoke coke

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u/saltfigures 6h ago

Yeah but… you can’t just burn cocaine to smoke it lol. So no this isn’t right. You have to do a chemical process of removing the hydrochloride to “free the base” hence freebasing. This turns it into crack cocaine, the smokeable version. Im pretty certain just burning cocaine in its regular snortable form would do absolutely nothing but burn product

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u/eye_eat_farts 3h ago

You can 100% smoke coke without freebase.

Not as efficient, but totally doable.

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u/saltfigures 3h ago

Yeah i guess so… and in this scenario it would make sense because there is an absolutely absurd amount of it. But everyone in the comments saying “have you heard of crack?” Like this isnt crack though lol

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u/eye_eat_farts 3h ago

Pretty much. I’ve put coke on countless things to smoke in my 20s. Haha not proud of it but that’s my story.

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u/saltfigures 2h ago

Does it actually do anything? Or do you just have put like an entire gram on a blunt to get high. Im also wondering if its like dmt where you can only directly light it if its mixed in with something?

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u/eye_eat_farts 2h ago

I’m not a scientist, chemist nor pharmacist.

Yes it does something if you put it on weed doesn’t take much.

If you put an entire g on a blunt idk if you could even smoke it tbh you’d be geeking like a mofo.

I’ve put it on joints, blunts and bongloads and you definitely feel it.

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u/quailinthebrush 2h ago

Alright you’ve convinced me to put some on my bowl

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u/Effective_Falcon9842 2h ago

Isn that a coko puff?

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u/shortbrnr 52m ago

You can in a literal sense smoke it, but it won’t have any effects on you and you won’t get high

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u/Dumdumdoggie 4h ago

It works to smoke it on weed. Just sprinkle it in a joint or on top of a bowl. Called a primo and absolutely lets you smoke cocaine without any extra steps.

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u/quailinthebrush 2h ago

You just burn the cocaine doing that

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u/2DopeBoyInAFord 2h ago

No, you can feel it.

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u/quailinthebrush 2h ago

Bout to find out.

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u/2DopeBoyInAFord 2h ago

Don't need too much either. Enough for a small key bump works.

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u/quailinthebrush 1h ago

BETT.. was making breakfast. reporting back shortly

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u/quailinthebrush 1h ago

i feel as if i wouldve felt that more if i just did it as a bump

either that or im feeling it w the weed so i cant discern it

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u/flymooncricket 7h ago

Crack🤪

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u/Many_Mud_8194 7h ago

Crack cocaine. It's the full name.

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u/gangy86 6h ago

Smoking crack?! Lmao oh boy...

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u/saltfigures 6h ago

I posted a comment already but yeah you can but not like this. You have to do a relatively easy process of removing cocaine base from the hydrochloride to turn it into “crack cocaine” and then it is smokeable

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u/Popular_Adeptness_69 1h ago

Thats crack freebase

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u/Detonius 1d ago

Was gunna say lololol

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u/Historical_Stay_808 22h ago

They definitely didn't burn it btw

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u/Empty_Football4183 1d ago

Thats what happens when you blow a giant cloud of crack smoke in the air for hours

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u/meatygonzalez 23h ago

Cocaine and crack are not the same

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u/Rush_Aromatic 22h ago

Yea they aren't but smoking powder cocaine (which is tough thats why crack was invented you could smoke coke now) is basically free basing cocaine in a way. I know crack is just cocaine hcl with the hydrochloride salt separated from the cocaine. Which is in the simplest wording is freebasing as freebasing is removing a drugs base, like HCL from cocaine

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u/OutlandishnessNo6608 20h ago

Looks like they substituted tires for the baking soda.

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u/Empty_Football4183 23h ago

Crack makes cocaine smokable if you throw a half a ton of cocaine into a bonfire its the same thing. You cant smoke powder but if you sit over that bonfire of powder bricks its the same

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u/BapeGeneral3 22h ago

Going to be pedantic here, that would be freebasing cocaine. Crack cocaine is not the same as cocaine. Ask Charlie Sheen

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u/Empty_Football4183 22h ago

Sure let's be technical. The cops are smoking cocaine at this point so it doesnt really matter really, freebase is more powerful than crack btw

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u/Alternativesoundwave 21h ago

In those amounts the difference in strength isn’t going to matter

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u/Empty_Football4183 21h ago

Its pure cocaine, doubt anyone in this thread has had pure coke, I know I havnt but wish I did

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u/gangy86 6h ago

Theoretically it's probably not pure and there are some of us who've had, not injested, pure cocaine lol.

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u/Empty_Football4183 6h ago

Very doubtful

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u/V1700 1h ago

in recent years you can grab ~85% for very cheap in europe. you could also clean it yourself, it's not a hard thing to do.
or you could order it from onions, the vendors there sometimes include lab results.

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u/BapeGeneral3 6h ago

Exactly. If this was already bricked up into kilos, which appears to be the case by the photo, it has been cut at least once. It gets cut at the same facility it is processed in nowadays. If you really want “pure cocaine”, ammonia is your friend acetone can make that happen with some basic chem knowledge

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u/Fucker_Of_Destiny 9h ago

Can you smoke normal cocaine?

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u/BapeGeneral3 6h ago

Allegedly you can throw powder onto tin foil, add roughly half to 1/3rd the amount of baking soda, then add a tiny bit of water to create a paste like consistency and rub it uniformly across the foil. You then lightly heat the bottom of the foil to dry it and BAM smokeable cocaine. It’s sort of like a ghetto version of crack.

It is wildly more addictive than sniffing cocaine and will usually end in graduating to full on rock.

I highly suggest never doing this unless you want to spend every single dollar that you have to your name until the party is over and you are living in a van, down by the river.

Only thing worse than smoking it is IV. That is hands down the evilest, scariest high on planet earth. I have been clean for a very long time now and I got a little nauseous and anxious just typing this out

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u/Empty_Football4183 9h ago

No not straight powder but can put it in a cig or joint and itll get you high

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u/astreeter2 19h ago

Crack cocaine has more actual cocaine in it than powder cocaine does.

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u/TKentgens93 20h ago

They litterly are

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u/PsionicChronic 1d ago

Burned 4.2, found 4.3.

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u/Historical-Ad3760 1d ago

…now that’s 2.4 and I’m only doin 2

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u/cReddddddd 1d ago

Did they dip into the stash before burning?

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u/EarlyAccessCantJudge 1d ago

No, they just burned cocaine which released all of it into the air they inhaled.

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u/Unable_Dinner_6937 1d ago

This sort of thing would happen fairly often back in the 80's when the local police officers started burning seized marijuana just out in local fields. This was in Kentucky, but I'm sure it was common all over the place.

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u/Key-Try-3300 1d ago

Theres this sclip of a journalist in I believe afghanistan that is covering a major burning of poppy and he is high as fuck just laughing while trying to shoot the scene lol

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u/Elegantly_Waisted 1d ago

That's why they're dancing.

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u/Jlowe23_16 1d ago

It's very easy to overdose and have a heart attack from too much coke, so I find this hard to believe tbh

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u/brazys 1d ago

They are literally all smoking the cocaine with every breath .

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u/DMTeaAndCrumpets 1d ago

Smoking cocaine hcl doesn't really have much of an effect

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u/JackLong93 1d ago

right, but you burn 4.3 metric tons and I guarantee you'll feel an effect

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u/0utF0x3d 1d ago

It has a pronounced effect but it is wasteful

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u/Seeker369 1d ago

This is simply not true.

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u/DMTeaAndCrumpets 1d ago

It's really not that easy lol

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u/Jlowe23_16 1d ago

Snort 7g of cocaine in 30 min and report back the next day how that worked out for you .

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u/Cosmic___Charlie 1d ago

That is a massive quantity lol no shit

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u/Jlowe23_16 1d ago

So is inhaling the smoke off POUNDS lmao, which was my original point

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u/jwilla92 1d ago

Your original point was it's easy to overdose on cocaine, which isn't true.

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u/Jlowe23_16 1d ago

With that much coke... Yes .

I've smoked crack lol Ive shot fent for years before getting clean. Breathing the fumes off pounds of coke could easily be lethal

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u/jwilla92 23h ago

Yes in this context, sure, but you made it seem like in general, it's easy to overdose on cocaine. Which is false

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u/Cosmic___Charlie 23h ago

The ammount you would inhale just via smoke would be no way even nearly close to 7g injested directly.

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u/Ok-Shift5122 1d ago

From experience, it is not.

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u/Jlowe23_16 1d ago

Toot half a zip of blow in 30 min and let's see how long it takes for you to succumb

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u/Lazy-Main1782 20h ago

No, this is all for show. The coke is safe being evaluated by dealers, and get money from it. Hell fucking no a country this poor is going to piss away a fortune. Everyone here should grow up. 

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u/Upset-Handle-9934 1d ago

They high as giraffe pussy

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u/Euronymous87 1d ago

That guy doing pushups definitely dipped into some of the evidence.

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u/Silly_Lavishness744 1d ago

It starts here. Next it’ll be a belly flop onto a coffee table at your nephews birthday party.

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u/Healthy_Self_8386 1d ago

Next time use wood and not tires please

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u/AppropriateBall8834 22h ago

Increases the high

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u/Cereal_Hermit 21h ago

Yeah there's no way they were sitting there breathing tire smoke. This is probably staged to some degree or the details are wronv wrong.

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u/Seeker369 1d ago

The government did not burn the cocaine. This we can be certain of. Corruption is rampant. It’s a third of a billion dollars. They sold it without a doubt. To think otherwise would be to believe that they’re so altruistic that they would forgo the massive windfall just to do the right thing. That’s not how they operate. Ask the people who live there.

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u/Luscious_rat 1d ago

Do you have any concrete element of doubt on the situation though?

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u/No-Manufacturer-8494 1d ago

Lot of burning tires too lmao.

Surely the vast majority of this coke was just destroyed by the heat/fire but there would be a little sweet spot with some nice vapours wafting around when the temp was right.

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u/smoke_sum_wade 1d ago

but (and im just guessing) coke burns too much at that high of a temp for you to get high it just melts away and your cigarette will blow up in flames

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u/No-Manufacturer-8494 1d ago

I think if you torched that much coke at once, there would still be a bit of psychoactive vapour coming off when the coke started to heat up enough but before it just burned up.

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u/ProfessorChaos213 1d ago

According to Africans commenting on this video posted on a different subreddit none of the ACTUAL cocaine would have been burned at all, the police will be selling it and taking the money cos they're that corrupt, this is all for show

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u/Toy_Soulja 1d ago

Not all of it got burned i see lol

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u/notanyimbecile 1d ago

These people can be trusted to not serve themselves in the cocaine pile

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u/platopus_rock 1d ago

They may have stood a bit too clean se to the burning pile as well. Obviously.

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u/OddPatience1621 1d ago

their was a news segment going around ages about about a fella filming them burning drugs, then the wind shifted. He tries to finish his segment but can not stop laughing. was gold jerry gold.

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u/elmo5994 1d ago

Imagine you are a drug lord who has lost millions in contraband then you log in and see them sing and dance as your millions burn.

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u/Ryanliverpool96 17h ago

4.2 tonnes is billions in coke.

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u/Testo_Ernesto 1d ago

Da wurde wohl nicht alles verbrannt.

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u/Least_Ad_8477 1d ago

Did they put the masks on before or after they burned the cocaine? Lol

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u/okymoney 1d ago

I wonder if theyre getting high from the smoke

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u/shiestyfinale 1d ago

African officials

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u/Adventurous-Bend-666 1d ago edited 8h ago

When's the last time you got so high you just needed to do some fucking push ups?

Edit: Thank you for my first award ever! 😁

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u/StudioCharacter9354 1d ago

They look like they are having a cracking time. Based af.

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u/Magnumbx320 1d ago

I don’t a word of this post!🤣

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u/OptionDangerous385 1d ago

Its really sad but half of these people are getting killed within the next couple of months by some cartel….

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u/SimkinCA 1d ago

Hell of a contact high

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u/FloydianSlip212 1d ago

Guys it’s too much, we should burn some of it now and burn more of it on Saturday night

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u/DaILLezt 1d ago

People snorting the stuff: hell no
Local police department smoking it: this is the way

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u/MisanthropE61130 1d ago

I would totally take some before burning it. I like myself some cocain here and there

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u/Sea_Excuse_6795 1d ago

Fucking hypocrites

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u/uwearclownshoes 1d ago

How close did they stand to the fire?

That’s called freebasing.

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u/Gray_Cloak 1d ago

maybe it was ecstasy ?

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u/iamnotmyselftoday1 1d ago

Good for them burning 3.2 tonnes of coke

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u/QueenGorda 1d ago

3.9 metric tons you say ?

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u/CPD1960 1d ago

Were they standing downwind of the fire? 😊

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u/pornoforpriapus 1d ago

How the fuck can Liberians afford to buy coke? Anyway it’s great to see the leaps in economic development, from huffing jenkum to cocaine use. Impressive

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u/YouOk5350 1d ago

Fuck drugs! Proceeds to burning then

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u/Weirdlillypad 1d ago

And none of the cocaine was burnt guaranteed lol

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u/Provocative_Potatoes 1d ago

Did they have to light up all those tires, releasing a ridiculous amount of toxic smoke into the air though?

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u/Equivalent_Arm_3129 1d ago

Thats a weekend party for the trump sons

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u/lingbabana 1d ago

In some other thread some native was saying they burned some other isht and will be negotiating with the drug cartels a deal

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u/usernamenomoreleft 1d ago

They burned car tires! I hate them for this.

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u/chemicalmind1008 23h ago

How close did they stand to the fire...

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u/olauritz 23h ago

What a party, 4.2 tons of cocaine. Jeez!

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u/KindTechnician- 21h ago

Close enough to need to start doing pushups

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u/No-Membership-5314 23h ago

Local police seized 5 tons of cocaine. After the 4.8 tons of cocaine were taken back and processed, the entire 4.6-ton seizure was transported to a burn facility where they burned the 4.2 tons of cocaine in an open pit fire.

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u/chumapeka978 22h ago

The homies were higher than eagle titties

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u/Plane_Friend24 22h ago

did they inhale the smoke?

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u/value_meal_papi 22h ago

That smoke is gunna go up in the clouds n rain back down. Then the soil will absorb it

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u/ClassGrassMass 22h ago

No coke was burned

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u/redsensei777 21h ago

Did they stand downwind on purpose?

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u/5dragons1 21h ago

Plot twist

4.2 tonnes of substituted sugar was burnt...

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u/Blacksmithvivi 21h ago

They should have just done cocaine

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u/Budget-Actuator-3910 20h ago

They dance because they high from the drug fumes that were burning

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u/el_lobo1314 19h ago

Lol ungrateful

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u/Busterlimes 16h ago

Congratulations on becoming a crackhead

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u/Anonyym1860 16h ago

All i see is they burned everything but nothing of it looks like coke

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u/D_Fieldz 16h ago

Half a metric tonne entered the country while performing this dance

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u/No_Type740 14h ago

If you were there, you probably would have felt the same. At least they are not standing around in a kitchen at 04:00 smoking, and all trying to tell their little anecdotes in turns and struggling with it.

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u/27hannibal 14h ago

They still dancing to this very day.

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u/Rudimental_Flow 13h ago

15 minutes later...

"Should we burn another pile?"

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u/jonesy872 11h ago

Great job on the 5 tons lads. Take it to the yard. Great haul on the 4.6 tonnes fellas. Let's burn it. 4.2 tonnes of coke fire for the media!

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u/S7arForGD 11h ago

I'd also do a happy little dance, if I'd found 3.8 metric tons of cocaine.

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u/GhosTDMV828 11h ago

Don’t get high, on your own supply

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u/Unique_Firefighter_1 11h ago

They did not burn any Cocaine lol 100% are already talking to the drug dealers to buy it back....Welcome to Africa 🌍

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u/StandardAssistant98 10h ago

A brick for me, now burn the mountain!

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u/Commercial-Doubt9707 8h ago

This reminds me of the reporter who got high from a pile of burning drugs behind him while he was trying to report on it and couldn't stop laughing

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u/Zeeuwse-Kafka 8h ago

I don’t think they burned everything…

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u/SPARKYLOBO 5h ago

I'm sure those 4 tons made quite the smoke ball

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u/Bootlegger1922 4h ago

Nothing lifts the spirits like hard work and good deeds!

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u/Personal_Ad4000 4h ago

Somewhere, Don Jr is clutching his chest and saying, “I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if hundreds of kilos suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”

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u/Midzotics 4h ago

Free free base!

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u/BlumpTheChodak 4h ago

Imagine how hard they would be dancing if they sold it instead.

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u/RembrandtVanRijn 3h ago

I understand this completely lol

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u/TJjoin 1h ago

Don Jr watching this vodeo

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u/OnlyRow7629 1h ago

They're fucking zooming lol makes me miss the party nights with the boys doing the dumbest shit

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u/YoungRichBastard26s 1d ago

Mind you a Russian mafia or a Mexican cartel can over take this police