What $206 million looks like (when it's mostly $100 bills)

A place for anything and everything.
Post Reply
User avatar
bio
Resident Junky
Posts: 6644
Joined: Tue Dec 31, 2002 12:24 pm
Location: Spokane, WA
Has thanked: 26 times
Been thanked: 43 times
Contact:

What $206 million looks like (when it's mostly $100 bills)

Post by bio » Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:57 pm

Check out this story of a Mexican drug raid, centered around trackers in pseudoephedrin -- you knew it as Sudafed, and it's used in making methamphetamine.

Before Sudafed (and other such medications) changed the formula (to something less effective), meth lab people were buying and stealing it in large quantities. When the US cracked down on it, Mexico became the largest producer of it - and thus, the Mexican traffickers of it got rich beyond belief.

Thus, most of the bills there are 100s. From a decongestant that was sold over-the-counter a year ago.

More pics are at the sideshow linked from the story.

Image
"That's What"
- She
Post Reply