(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Wiping the egg off their face is harder when it's rotten egg. [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-25 This story has meaning to me because this happened just about 10 miles from me. Well the police in Riverside, California have some egg on their face today. They tried a sting operation to catch a drug trafficking suspect and it went wrong. Apparently after selling the person 60 pounds of methamphetamine the suspect took off and they lost him. Woops. But not to worry, the police estimated that the drugs that were only worth about $35,000.00 so it wasn’t like they were helping to put a bunch of drugs on the street. Read more here www.rawstory.com/... What? — Wait a second! Something just doesn’t add up here. Every time you hear about a drug bust they always say the value of the drugs. Of course they want to make themselves look good. They want to say see, we took all this money away from drug dealers and made the community safer. So, let’s look at that for a second. A story in published by ABC 7 says that 300 pounds of meth is worth $4,000,000.00 that works out to be $13,333.33 per pound. abc7.com/… Another story published by the DEA says that 50 pounds is worth about $2,000,000.00 that works out to be $40,000.00 per pound. www.dea.gov/… And a story published by WAFB news puts 5 pounds of meth at a value of $60,000.00 or $12,000.00 per pound. www.wafb.com/... And yet another story from The Lagrange Daily News puts 20 pounds of meth worth $461,000.00 or $23,050 per pound. www.lagrangenews.com/… The article in RawStory www.rawstory.com/… States that the police estimated the value of the 60 pounds of meth at about $35,000 or $583.33 per pound. FUNNY how when the police and arresting authorities place a value on the amount of drugs they take off the streets they place a WILDLY higher number it. But when they lose the drugs and put them on the streets themselves they place the value at pennies on the dollar. Seems to me that someone is trying to say it’s not that bad, see it was only worth a little bit of money not like it was worth millions…. Right! But truth be told, lets take the best number from the above examples and see where that puts us, and we will even use the DEA’s Numbers, so that is $40,000 per pound, times 60, equals…. wait for it….. $2,400,000.00 worth of meth that the police put into my back yard. Well I hope the cops had some good shit man…. I’d hate for them to be putting out Fentenal laced crap. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/25/2165776/-Wiping-the-egg-off-their-face-is-harder-when-it-s-rotten-egg Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/