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This 100-ft Long Sub Was Built To Carry 8 Tons of Colombian Cocaine

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When you need to transport eight tons of cocaine across international waters, you can’t exactly just pay an extra baggage fee. So Colombian drug lords did the sensible—and trendy—thing: they spent 4,000 million pesos (approx $2.2 million) to build their own drug-trafficktacular submersible.

Colombian authorities seized the vessel before it could make its way to Mexico. And then posed for lots, and lots, and lots of pictures, because wouldn’t you? [MSNBC via BoingBoing; Photo credit: REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga]

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