News Forum - Meth bust in northeast Thailand, pills worth about 20 million baht

[Thaiger]

There’s been another meth bust in northeast Thailand last night, this time in Nakhon Phanom province. Rangers had been patrolling along the Mekong river, when they noticed a group of men on a long-tail boat. The men took a sack out of the boat and left it on the riverbank before they drove off in their boat. In the sack, the rangers found 180,000 meth pills, with a street value of about 20 million baht. The pills were divided into 90 plastic packages. They are believed to have been smuggled from Thailand into Laos, and then back into Thailand. Police […]

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[Chatogaster]

1 hour ago, Thaiger said:

The pills were divided into 90 plastic packages. They are believed to have been smuggled from Thailand into Laos, and then back into Thailand. 

That's a baffling statement.

Was it part of some very hard to imagine refund / discrepancy in retail prices (and if so, how can that be determined?) or were the pills smuggled out and then back in again just to get packaged / get a paint job / have a nice holiday visiting abroad?

I'm perplexed.

Edited July 31, 2022 by Chatogaster

[Mandy]

Very confusing, but meth is a life changer for all that take it, there's alot of places in west Australia where its wrecked whole community's, I'm all for extreme punishment for these smugglers.

[Mandy]

Off subject, but is anyone else having trouble with reading comments, either nobody is commenting these days or something is wrong with my page, I really miss my morning entertainment reading everyone's opinions. Any help out there would be great

[Havana]

1 hour ago, Mandy said:

Off subject, but is anyone else having trouble with reading comments, either nobody is commenting these days or something is wrong with my page, I really miss my morning entertainment reading everyone's opinions. Any help out there would be great

Could be your page, I'm experiencing no problems (not yet anyway).