Crashing a plane full of cocaine into the ocean sounds insane until you price the plane against what was inside it.
A used DC-3, the workhorse of that run, cost about $150,000. It carried roughly three tons of cocaine. At the start of the 1980s a kilo wholesaled for $40,000 to $50,000 in Miami. One load was worth north of $120 million.
Run the ratio. The entire airplane was worth about four kilos out of the three thousand it was hauling. Sinking it cost them one-tenth of one percent of the cargo.
Once the plane is that cheap, ditching it is the smartest move on the board.
Landing solved nothing. South Bimini's airstrip was watched, closed at sunset, and had a single road in. Put the plane down intact and you still own the most traceable object in the whole operation: a tail number the DEA could walk straight back to whoever bought it. Smugglers got so paranoid about this they ran Convairs with duplicate tail numbers, swapping a "derelict" decoy for the loaded one in the dark.
Ditching erased that the moment it touched down. The plane slides into thirty feet of gin-clear water, a flotilla of cigarette boats strips the bales off the wing before it settles, and the one thing that could convict anyone becomes a reef.
The drugs floated. The receipt sank.
That's why the seabed off Bimini is still littered with airframes. Each one was a $150,000 line item on a $120 million delivery. The cheapest part of the whole operation was the part they were happy to throw away.
A man that goes by ‘The Spider-Man of Yemen’ falls to his d*ath into a volcano!
Anything for clicks.
Nobody said these people were the smartest people in the world.
I wonder what his IQ is.
Brasil x Marrocos:
- os laterais direitos são os piores da história do Brasil em Copas do Mundo;
- os esquerdos também;
- Paquetá não arma e não marca. Mas dança bem;
- Casemiro mais lento que internet na década de 90;
- Vini Jr fez o golaço e errou o resto;
- Raphinha “porrada neles” só deu porrada na bola;
- Igor Thiago é um bom zagueiro;
- Endrick, que deveria ser titular, nem entrou. Ou seja, absurdo;
- Carlo Ancelotti: o torcedor esperava bem mais.
Resumindo: Marrocos é muito mais time que o Brasil, por incrível que pareça.
“Ah, mas você só sabe criticar?”
Beleza, então vendo pelo lado positivo, jogando mal assim, podemos dizer que o empate da Seleção Brasileira foi heroico!! 😂😂😂
📸 Rafael Ribeiro/CBF
@OutwestLock I still went crazy having gone through this.
I had severe intrusive thoughts, dream like movies of extreme violence playing in my mind I couldn't get out of my head for years.
Atleast ill never put myself in such a postion ever again lol
1st time having somebody fuck yo bitch is a very instrumental moment to the development of a young man
The younger it happens to u, the better… I was 17 when it happened to me… You don’t wanna be 30 yrs old experiencing that shit for the 1st time… That’s how niggas go crazy
It is interesting and informative to compare Europe’s two predominantly Muslim peoples: Bosniaks and Albanians.
Bosniaks today often retain a strong sense of Muslim identity and have a feeling of solidarity with the wider Muslim world. Albanians, by contrast, tend to have a much weaker attachment to Islam as a marker of collective identity, with both Albania and Kosovo operating more clearly as secular European nation-states.
A large part of the difference can be traced to divergent historical experiences in the late 20th century. The Yugoslav wars hardened Serbian, Croatian, and Bosniak national identities, crystallizing them into distinct peoples in ways that obscured how closely integrated they had become by the late Yugoslav period.
It is easy to forget that these three groups shared a common language and a broadly similar culture, while decades of socialist rule had significantly reduced the public salience of religion. In many respects, the differences between them were arguably less pronounced than those between Lebanon’s Christian and Muslim communities, or between Syria’s Sunnis, Alawites, and Druze.
For Bosniaks in particular, the smallest and most vulnerable of the three groups, the experience of mass violence and ethnic cleansing in the 1990s, targeted solely for their religious identity by Serbian nationalist forces, must have been deeply traumatic. It transformed that identity into a central reference point for their survival and later political self-definition. This is why they tend to identify closely with their Ottoman legacy today and chant for Palestine.
Albanians, on the other hand, followed a different trajectory. They entered the modern era as a clearly distinct ethnolinguistic group, separate from the South Slavs around them. Even in Kosovo, Serbian repression was directed primarily at Albanians as an ethnic group rather than at Muslims as such. Both Muslim and Catholic Albanians were affected, and this shared experience of being targeted as Albanians reinforced national identity over religious identity.
🚨| BREAKING: Speed just met Zlatan Ibrahimović and Thierry Henry and immediately got roasted by Zlatan for wearing a Nigerian shirt with a USA jersey 😭😭😭
🇸🇴 Nunca vi algo así. En Somalia hoy se llenó un estadio para recibir como héroe nacional a Omar Artan, el árbitro al que Estados Unidos le negó la entrada al Mundial. Increíble.