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    Photos of Mexican drug lord's home after raid

    I found this quite interesting - from another forum - (btw I can only post 6 images at a time)



    Yes, That is cash piled on that table in the background!





    357 Magnum semi automatic with solid gold grips.





    This guy had a better gun collection that most legitimate museums do





    Just a quaint little villa in the hills - Drug money bought it all!





    Man made cave and hot tub inside the home





    A collection of exotic animals - which were cared for in the grandest fashion by the way


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    Re: Photos of Mexican drug lord's home after raid

    7 Lions were on the property





    A very rare Tiger





    The back yard pool





    Exotic art collection - some of which was illegal to own - some stolen





    They just burned it all down!





    More guns than you could ever imagine


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    Re: Photos of Mexican drug lord's home after raid

    This pile of cash before it was counted was estimated to be approximately 18 Million Dollars!
    After it was counted it turned out to be a little more than 22 Million Dollars!





    From another angle





    Guns were hidden all over the house along with ample Ammo just in case of trouble.





    Stacks of cash were found in every nook and cranny





    This case is filled with 100 dollar Bills estimated to be 1/2 a million dollars and no doubt headed out to make another drug by perhaps from the Columbians





    18 plastic bins filled with 100 dollar bills were found


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    Re: Photos of Mexican drug lord's home after raid

    Another cabinet stack tight with cash - all 100's





    More 100's





    Each of these stacks of 100's holds 250,00 (a quarter of a million dollars)!





    They also had millions in Columbian money and Mexican Pesos although they preferred American dollars for the most part.
    There was even some stacks of Chinese Yen found in one closet.





    More Gold machine guns and pistols - most were never fired, just held for collection value




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    Re: Photos of Mexican drug lord's home after raid

    Just a small collection of guns





    Yes, that is real gold on these guns!





    Gold and Titanium 45 Caliber semi automatic pistols - they found 16 like this





    Go and kill in the name of the Lord my son! There was a matched pair of these found.





    The money and valuables found in this one house alone, would be enough to pay for health insurance for every man woman and child in the U.S.A. for 12 years! There are believed to be approximately 27 more of these houses in Mexico alone not to mention the ones in othercountries who are enriching themselves in the drug trade. These people have so much money, they make the Arab oil sheiks look like welfare recipients.

    Their money can buy the best politicians, the best cops, the best judges, whatever they need they just throw down stacks of cash and it is theirs.
    This is why the drug problem is so difficult to fight.

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    Re: Photos of Mexican drug lord's home after raid

    Its hard to believe that they just burnt it all down

    It makes me wonder how many 'high up' people had some knowledge about this but were either too scared or being bribed not to say anything?

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    Re: Photos of Mexican drug lord's home after raid

    Quote Originally Posted by Phil_dB View Post
    Their money can buy the best politicians, the best cops, the best judges, whatever they need they just throw down stacks of cash and it is theirs.
    This is why the drug problem is so difficult to fight.
    So, who did they cheese off to lose it all this time? I dread to think

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    Re: Photos of Mexican drug lord's home after raid

    Reality check: In 2007 the USA spent $2.26 trillion on health care.

    So, 12 years health insurance for everyone in the USA is going to cost roughly $50 trillion dollars (more, in practice, because lots of people don't currently have it).

    If you had $50 trillion in $100 bills, and piled it up evenly to cover an entire football field, the pile would be roughly

    500 feet high.

    Somehow I don't think the piles in the drug lords house were quite that big.

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    Re: Photos of Mexican drug lord's home after raid

    So, tracking down the details, turns out the raid found roughly $205M in cash. Which is enough for maybe 2 hours of health care, rather than 12 years.

    Still a lot of money, of course...

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    Re: Photos of Mexican drug lord's home after raid

    Quote Originally Posted by David Franklin View Post
    If you had $50 trillion in $100 bills, and piled it up evenly to cover an entire football field,
    You wouldn't be buying politicians, you've by buying countries.

    Rather than ruining countries.

    Still, it must be difficult to say "no" when you're offered $millions to simply look the other way. Especially when the alternative is that you might end up looking at the inside of a coffin.

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    Re: Photos of Mexican drug lord's home after raid

    Quote Originally Posted by Andy McGregor View Post
    Especially when the alternative is that you might end up looking at the inside of a coffin.
    Pah! Andy, you're such an amateur! Couldn't you think of something more imaginative to say? I dunno...something about horses heads, concrete overcoat and wellies, or being part of the support system for the Dartford flyover.

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