• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    3 months ago

    The Reuters reporters didn’t make fentanyl, had no intention to do so, and arranged for safe destruction of the chemicals and other materials they purchased

    Nerds.

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      3 months ago

      What, did nobody keep the receipt to do a return?

      “Nah, it’s only $3,600… Just throw it in the trash!”

      Yo… Reuters, if you’re just throwing a month’s wages away, I’ve got some bills to pay…

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        3 months ago

        I mean… the article says the seller was located in China and using a pseudonym to communicate over Telegram and accepting payments in cryptocurrency. All to ship precursor chemicals in packages disguised as electronics. I wouldn’t exactly be surprised if the seller didn’t have a return policy.

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    When I worked at a Walmart in college, I literally watched a guy and his girlfriend shoplift an entire meth lab and put it into operation while they were stealing other stuff (to pass the time, I guess?).

    They were busted, obviously, but were able to nearly cook a batch while we were waiting on police and hazmat to arrive.

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    3 months ago

    Great. Now the drop shipping ‘entrepreneurs’ are going to flood the world with Fentanyl. Thanks, Reuters.

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    3 months ago

    It sounds like a lot of the precursors are too generally used to blanket ban them because of fentanyl. Kinda seems like this is just the cost of seamless worldwide shipping, we simply can’t open every bag of cat food being shipped to make sure its not a fentanyl precursor.

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    3 months ago

    Wonder where they ordered all the prerequisite compounds.

    Something tells me it’s just north of the south China sea.