Pictures of a Mexican drug lord's house. A LOT of money, and guns and.....

[twinrider1]

$22,000,000,000. That is a staggering amount of money.

You could buy the ten most valuable sports franchises in the world...

2.23 -- Manchester United
1.88 -- Real Madrid
1.85 -- New York Yankees
1.85 -- Dallas Cowboys
1.56 -- Washington Redskins
1.40 -- Los Angeles Dodgers
1.40 -- New England Patriots
1.31 -- Barcelona
1.30 -- New York Giants
1.29 -- Arsenal

...and STILL have $8 billion to spend on hookers and blow.


EDIT: Turns out it's Millions, not Billions. Ok, you could buy really good season tickets for all those teams.

 

[nace186]

I question the amount of money in the pictures.

according to this: http://seanlinnane.blogspot.com/2010/05/gi-normous-drug-bust.html

it's only millions, not billions.

another source said it's millions: http://www.businessinsider.com/hous...-animals-and-weapons-cache-2010-6?op=1#!HYaHW

 

[BladeVenom]

Isn't this a real old story? I remember seeing that pic of money years ago.

 

[Jodell88]

Hey look, American cash being used in illegal activities!

 

[twinrider1]

Stopped reading at 'solid gold .357 magnum 1911.' Jesus fucking christ, article writer, you could at least read the fucking tag on the gun in the picture you posted.

That blurb was for the gun below it actually. Solid gold grips...probably a Coonan.

 

[zanejohnson]

$22,000,000,000. That is a staggering amount of money.

You could buy the ten most valuable sports franchises in the world...

2.23 -- Manchester United
1.88 -- Real Madrid
1.85 -- New York Yankees
1.85 -- Dallas Cowboys
1.56 -- Washington Redskins
1.40 -- Los Angeles Dodgers
1.40 -- New England Patriots
1.31 -- Barcelona
1.30 -- New York Giants
1.29 -- Arsenal

...and STILL have $8 billion to spend on hookers and blow.

except, they also control, the blow and the hoookers.

 

[Rakehellion]

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 USA for 12 years!

But guess what they're actually going to spend it on!

 

[zanejohnson]

But guess what they're actually going to spend it on!

i'd imagine they're spending most of it on mercenary armies to enable this to continue to happen.

 

[KeithTalent]

Anyone else disappointed to see that pile of money? I would have expected over $22 billion to look like a lot more than that. I mean how much was Scrooge McDuck worth? A few billion probably and his vault looked like it held a lot more than that.

KT

 

[zanejohnson]

Anyone else disappointed to see that pile of money? I would have expected over $22 billion to look like a lot more than that. I mean how much was Scrooge McDuck worth? A few billion probably and his vault looked like it held a lot more than that.

KT

when did scrooge mcduck live????


his regime included those such as that dude "elmer fudd"

they hunted wabbits,

had a bunch of kids trying to take them down..

hired ET to help!!

 

[Kaido]

$22B American.

It's probably on Snopes somewhere, but it's a recycled image:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_drug_money.htm

Supposedly $207 million.

 

[olds]

It's probably on Snopes somewhere, but it's a recycled image:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_drug_money.htm

Supposedly $207 million.

Ya, that pic is as old as the internet.

 

[pete6032]

It's not billions it's millions.

 

[alkemyst]

There was some way over estimates on the cash piles there, however; back in 1989 I was at the home of a famous rap group at the time. In the garage was four 50 gallon drums each full of $100 bills.

They called it go-to money.

I am still glad I can say every dollar I have earned has been honest.

 

[phucheneh]

That blurb was for the gun below it actually. Solid gold grips...probably a Coonan.

Interesting...did not know someone actually made a .357 1911.

Utterly stupid (rimmed cartridges have no place in semi-autos; 10mm makes a lot more sense)...but interesting.

I still somehow doubt the grips are carved from solid bricks of gold. Much like I doubt that the bills with Andrew Jackson on them are 100's, as also claimed in the link. But I'm no financial expert.

 

[zanejohnson]

if you wanna know how much they are really worth.......look at carlos slim


you dont have a name like carlos slim unless your part of "them"

the skinny one
the short one
the godfather

watch some mexican concerts where they roll onto stage in lambos and such..

 

[alkemyst]

People don't want to believe this kind of shit happens in reality. Another 'high school' thing I knew was one of my good friend's dad was stopped in an airport with $250,000 in cash. He didn't know that it was illegal to travel with that much cash.

Long story short, they let him and the cash go; but he was banned from the entire state until he could provide a sworn statement/ledger as to how the money was acquired and what it was spent on.

 

[sandorski]

meh, my dog has a nicer house and more cash lying around in it [/ATOT]

 

[bunnyfubbles]

I think they're off by a couple orders of magnitude

if the dimensions of a bill are 6.6294 cm wide by 15.5956 cm long and 0.010922 cm thick, then 22B in denominations of 100 would be just over 248 cubic meters (and this is assuming freshly printed/perfect stacks), nearly one tenth of an olympic swimming pool in total volume

 

[brainhulk]

Seems like a lame version of Brainhulk

Oh yeah, I forgot the ferocious beast

 

[IronWing]

One picture says it is showing 22 billion in cash. That is unpossible. The stack is 10 bills by 34 bills with $100 bills. To be $22 billion the stack would have to be ~71 meters tall.

Who the hell wrote this story? The pic captioned "Each of these stacks of 100′s holds USD 250,000 (a quarter of a million US dollars)!" clearly shows twenties.


Edit: I see bunnyfubbles was typing while I was calculating.

 

[LegendKiller]

I question that site completely. They don't even realize how much is spent on healthcare in this country. They think $22bn would pay for healthcare for every man, woman, and child in America for 12 years.


ROFL.

 

[IronWing]

I'd love to see someone fire a solid gold gun. Twice.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

I question that site completely. They don't even realize how much is spent on healthcare in this country. They think $22bn would pay for healthcare for every man, woman, and child in America for 12 years.


ROFL.

yeah, that's also very laughable, although maybe they're just considering the ~8+ million obamacare signups, and ignoring the remaining 292 million

although there's still no way that would cover 12 years

 

[Sonikku]

Lots of money involved with drug war. How much does the Government think they have to spend to win the drug war?

Uno

15 trillion dollars? Jesus Christ. No wonder we're in so much debt.