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Fat Dan: Jul 10, 2022; HELLO

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

I feel like some context needs to be attached to these big drug bust stories:

The people who smuggle drugs into Australia now that shipments are going to get caught, they aren't na�ve, it's just a cost of doing business.

If the drug smugglers are so cocky that they are bringing in huge shipments like that they must be doing a roaring trade.

If this is the size of the stuff the police are catching, just imagine what's getting through.

Any dent in supply inevitably leads to an increase in the street price.

Busts like these always quote the street value of the bust (physical weight of the drugs divided by the weight of an average dose sold on the street multiplied by street price) which is misleading in so many different ways.

In Sydney they strip search 13 year old girls based on a suspicion of them having drugs.

Tune in next week for the next edition of Methamphetamine Media Watch.

At least with Heroin the amounts seized in a year pale in comparison to the amounts needed to support the known number of users.

# ? Aug 26, 2022 07:03

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Phy: Jun 27, 2008; Fun Shoe

Tiggum posted:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-26/record-ice-haul-at-sydney-port-botany/101374568

Why would a criminal syndicate organise a police operation?

I liked it better when I thought they meant frozen water. My brain concocted this whole scenario where importing ice chainsawed off the Ross Ice Shelf was becoming a lucrative trade, but it was made illegal to stem the shrinking of the Antarctic ice cap any more than global warming is already doing

# ? Aug 26, 2022 07:19

Splicer: Oct 16, 2006; from hell's heart I cast at thee
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Phy posted:

I liked it better when I thought they meant frozen water. My brain concocted this whole scenario where importing ice chainsawed off the Ross Ice Shelf was becoming a lucrative trade, but it was made illegal to stem the shrinking of the Antarctic ice cap any more than global warming is already doing

100% same

# ? Aug 26, 2022 08:55

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Maria Ohisalo* Startled When Jenni Haukio** Could Not Be Thrown In Sea - "This Summer has been a tragic example"

*) Minister of Environment and Climate (Greens)
**) Poet, wife of President of the Republic Sauli Niinist� (Cock)

3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 14:16 on Aug 26, 2022

# ? Aug 26, 2022 10:06

By popular demand: Jul 17, 2007; IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!

The actual sea is gone?!

# ? Aug 26, 2022 13:12

Fat Dan: Jul 10, 2022; HELLO

By popular demand posted:

The actual sea is gone?!

Yes, the fish are all growing wheels.

And having heaps of accidents because they dont know what to do

Fat Dan has a new favorite as of 16:53 on Aug 26, 2022

# ? Aug 26, 2022 13:20

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

By popular demand posted:

The actual sea is gone?!

It has been replaced with cyanobacteria soup, yes.

Like so:

# ? Aug 26, 2022 14:14

Ichabod Sexbeast: Dec 5, 2011; Giving 'em the old razzle-dazzle

Oh is this the sleepyhead thing, and it's been cancelled due to the baltic being hosed by global warming?

# ? Aug 26, 2022 15:03

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

The baltic has been getting hosed for ages, not just by global warming, but by rivers carrying too many nutrients (mostly from agriculture) leading to heavy algae blooms.

# ? Aug 26, 2022 15:22

Pigsfeet on Rye: Oct 22, 2008; I'm meat on the hoof

Antigravitas posted:

The baltic has been getting hosed for ages, not just by global warming, but by rivers carrying too many nutrients (mostly from agriculture) leading to heavy algae blooms.

And by military dumping

# ? Aug 26, 2022 15:36

By popular demand: Jul 17, 2007; IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!

Forbidden pea soup.

# ? Aug 26, 2022 16:55

Carthag Tuek: Oct 15, 2005; Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
sl�gt skal f�lge sl�gters gang

ugh i can almost smell it

# ? Aug 26, 2022 17:09

Milo and POTUS: Sep 3, 2017; I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Turn on your monitor

# ? Aug 26, 2022 17:36

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

And by military dumping

Sure, that too. If you ever visit a Baltic beach: That's not amber you found, and please don't put it in your pocket.

# ? Aug 26, 2022 17:42

Zero One: Dec 30, 2004; HAIL TO THE VICTORS!

Port Orange man arrested for trying to buy another child, police say

(Yes... another child)

quote:

A registered sex offender who tried to buy a child he saw in a Port Orange Walmart store for $200,000 four years ago is back behind bars, accused of offering to buy another child.

Helmuth Kolb, now 85, was arrested Thursday for violating his probation after he allegedly offered to buy an 8-year-old girl from her mother in a Port Orange Winn-Dixie store last week.

Police say Kolb told the child's mother how pretty the child was, then out in the parking lot yelled at the mother that he would buy the child for $100,000.

https://www.wesh.com/article/man-tries-to-buy-child-port-orange/40995958

# ? Aug 26, 2022 20:10

Inceltown: Aug 6, 2019

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1563275110701621251

# ? Aug 27, 2022 00:05

A Worrying Warlock: Sep 21, 2009

Inceltown posted:

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1563275110701621251

Between a rock and a hard ape

# ? Aug 27, 2022 01:02

GrossMurpel: Apr 8, 2011

Zero One posted:

Port Orange man arrested for trying to buy another child, police say

(Yes... another child)

https://www.wesh.com/article/man-tries-to-buy-child-port-orange/40995958

Huh, is that a crime? Not the buying a child bit, the shouting at a stranger to buy it bit
If he screams at some dude that he wants to hire him for a hit, is that attempted conspiracy to murder?
If he screams at a woman that he wants to pay her for sex, is that attempted prostitution?
I really gotta be more careful what I shout at random strangers in future

# ? Aug 27, 2022 10:37

Le Faye Morgaine: Feb 1, 2022

It was for violating his probation as a sex offender so probably had to do with his previous MO

# ? Aug 27, 2022 13:57

AKA Pseudonym: May 16, 2004; A dashing and sophisticated young man; Doctor Rope

GrossMurpel posted:

Huh, is that a crime? Not the buying a child bit, the shouting at a stranger to buy it bit
If he screams at some dude that he wants to hire him for a hit, is that attempted conspiracy to murder?
If he screams at a woman that he wants to pay her for sex, is that attempted prostitution?
I really gotta be more careful what I shout at random strangers in future

The shouting is the attempt. The things you describe would be solicitation of murder and prostitution respectively. There's some nuances from jurisdiction to jurisdiction I'm sure. But, yes, encouraging somebody else to commit a crime can be a crime even if it's done in an awkward way.

# ? Aug 27, 2022 14:23

Wee Bairns: Feb 10, 2004; Jack Tripper's wingman.

Sobatchja Morda posted:

Between a rock and a hard ape

# ? Aug 27, 2022 16:01

ThisIsJohnWayne: Feb 23, 2007; Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!

GrossMurpel posted:

Huh, is that a crime? Not the buying a child bit, the shouting at a stranger to buy it bit
If he screams at some dude that he wants to hire him for a hit, is that attempted conspiracy to murder?
If he screams at a woman that he wants to pay her for sex, is that attempted prostitution?
I really gotta be more careful what I shout at random strangers in future

# ? Aug 27, 2022 18:11

Rascar Capac: Aug 31, 2016; Surprisingly nice, for an evil Inca mummy.

# ? Aug 28, 2022 11:49

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

# ? Aug 29, 2022 02:33

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

quote:

Federal prosecutors said the plot went like this: Spina bought a Super Bowl LI ring from an unidentified Pats player in 2017. (Spina, who will remain perfectly in character throughout the rest of this story, paid him with a bad check.) From that player, Spina learned that he could purchase smaller rings made for friends and family. After selling the player�s ring to a broker for $63,000, Spina posed as a Patriots player and ordered three more rings with �BRADY� on them. His story was that the rings were for Brady�s baby. He paid about $25K for the three rings. (An auction house later valued one at $29,750.
The broker then got nervous. To quote from the government release:

After agreeing to buy the three rings for $81,500�nearly three times what Spina paid for the rings�the buyer started to believe that Brady did not have nephews, and he tried to withdraw from the deal.

https://defector.com/does-tom-brady-have-nephews-a-defector-investigation/

# ? Aug 31, 2022 11:29