$16 Million Worth Of Cocaine At Airport's Lost-And-Found

[matcom]

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It's one lost item that's not likely to be claimed.

Police at the Vienna Airport found 53 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $16 million at a lost-and-found counter. The narcotics were in a suitcase that had been at the counter for almost a month, police said.

The suitcase had been by mistakenly checked in at Mexico City along with the luggage of a 60-year-old Austrian tourist, who left it at the lost-and-found counter.

The drugs were placed in 22 bags wrapped in an oily, foul-smelling paper, in an apparent attempt to irritate police dogs specially trained to detect narcotics, police said.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4774160/detail.html

[mtnester]

1. Oops

[GOPisEvil]

2. *sniff* Yeah, *rubs nose* I'm here to claim my *sniff* bag.

[Tallison]

3. Wonder the value of the bounty

on whomever "misplaced" it...

[hobbit709]

4. Must be some excellent coke

to be worth $665 a gram. I doubt the people that lost it were out mor than about $300K. The figures governments use on the value of drugs they seize is vastly overstated. One time I saw a report saying the coke was worth about $1500/gram. At that price you should be getting off just looking at it.

[Tallison]

5. I consider myself edified

Never had to buy it or what not... :D

[hobbit709]

6. How I wonder

how often one gets to use "edified" in a sentence.

[Tallison]

7. When discussing coke prices

It impresses the dealers. ;-)