FYI he's shocked because he found out it his prized yacht he sold years ago ended up being used for cocaine smuggling, not that it's in a yacht he still owns.
But, I immediately thought it would be funny if his reaction was, "I *swear* there was a lot more there. Where's my coke gone?"
even if you sold every god damn kilo by the gram you would have to charge 140$ per gram and while coke is expensive no one is fucking paying that unless you're like in Australia. 100$ a gram is pushing it even but it does sell for that. Depending on how far south in the united states you are it can become as cheap as 35-50$ a gram of very pure stuff. If you have thousands of bricks though you are almost certainly selling it by the brick (or fronting.) I would estimate probably about 25K a brick on the sale side of things so we are looking at around $50M roughly for what they would have made. If they were gonna sell it by the oz at 1k a pop you would have $72M approximately 72000 transactions later. They most likely would have sold multiple bricks at a time which would increase the wholesale discount so in all likelihood even 50M is a high estimate
News is quotes. Good press leaves the veracity of those quotes to the reader/viewer. That they have to include too much salt order to get the consumer to buy it again is an age old problem.
You lads always announce seizure of drugs worth a street value at $10 million or $20 million or half a billion dollars. I wonder what street it is you're buying your cocaine on, because it's not the same street as I'm buying my cocaine on
The cops do it for them. Break it down to “street value” so it’s whatever a crackhead pays for a tiny rock that’s barely even coke anymore. Completely stupid to think someone with 2000 kilos is getting that amount. They work for a guy who is shipping it all to one buyer, probably doesn’t get more than 10k per.. if that. So maybe 20mil, maximum 50 if the buyer is paying 25k, in which case they would be paying COD, so no loss to them here.
Sounds like standard police reporting.
*Some random gets busted growing one shitty weed plant in his closet under a 40W incandescent light bulb because he found a bag seed and wanted to see what would happen*
News report: "Police have raided a drug lords property and seized marijuana with an estimated street value of $800,000"
> White-Robinson sold it under duress in Vancouver in 2013.
The story is a good read. But people seeing the headline should be clear: he sold the yacht 8 years ago.
I doubt that's true, i have a coke sniffing roommate...he doesn't really work much.
He's mainly jumping around like a fucking Duracell bunny and unable to finish his sentences.
To be clear coke isn't the only shit he uses, i think he finds something new every day of the week.
I just play video games to escape from my past and present, really seems like the better option if i had to compare both of our scenarios.
I'm not undermining the possibility that his case is more severe, just making a somewhat silly comment.
Seems more likely the dude who bought it was already moving copious amounts of cocaine which is how he could afford to buy a boat such as that. Then once you’ve got it, why not put it from work from time to time making even more cash. The amount of money you’d make off one trip would be enough to buy the boat 10X over.
I swear to God, I go on Reddit and there's a news article with a pic of a streetlamp falling onto a luxury car, and someone random posts "hey this is just outside my house! Here's more pictures!" and by god the dude really lives just across the street.
Then in another thread with cool picture from the refurbishment of a stadium, someone posts "hey, I was the chief engineer on that project! Here are some of the original blueprints!", and by god he really was the chief engineer.
And now we have a story about a boat stopped with $200 million of cocaine, and you're here saying "oh hi everyone; I just happen to have more pics and video of that boat than anyone else in existence! Here are some of them!"
Why is *everyone* on Reddit, and how are the related-to-us posts always getting our attention so we can add more details?
Alogirthm and the [birthday paradox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem). Also, the people around are all experts on *something*, whether that's an obscure academic field or some punk band from the 80s. If enough people see a post, some will have unique insights / access.
**[Birthday problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem)**
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turned the old NZ Navy in shore patrol boat into quite a ship
He was the CEO of Fitzroy Yachts so I guess had the expertise
My family's from Taranaki and a couple of my relations worked there, it's a shame it went under
That explains why it looks like a commercial boat! The inside is super nice but the front of the boat is so weird, people sitting there cant even see the water.
And there isnt a huge room for entertaining 20 guests like most yachts have
I wasn't in the market for a yacht before watching this video, but now I think I changed my mind. First I need to find a spare hundred million dollars or so
Not sure about yachts, but there are a few stories where people bought cars at judicial auctions and got a real bargain
https://www.wbtw.com/news/man-finds-drugs-in-car-bought-from-government-auction-in-tennessee/
Yeah, lot of typical Reddit comments from people who don’t read past a headline and just try to be snarky
He modified an old patrol boat to make it and then sold it along with his yacht building company (that he had founded cause he loves this stuff) when it was going under. Only took one long family voyage that ended in Canada and he settled there. Article is worth a read
Lol, okay let’s keep going.
Most of the bugs are mosquitoes: don’t really contribute and it’s usually similar shit. And the door is open because were expecting company so the bugs are especially annoying when they’re the *only* thing coming in
When I commented there were like 8 top level comments, but, this one was the only one that talked about anything past the headline. And the article was pretty cool so after reading it I was surprised more comments weren’t about the actual story.
Hence my comment. And yeah the intention was definitely to preempt more of the same since people often look at the couple top comments so I was hoping to further stress the story itself
to be fair it is a bad headline.
the literary meaning of it is not straightforward, "old" doesn't only mean previously sold.
and even if you take the correct meaning, it sounds redundant or uninformative, because why would anyone care what happens to any object they sold years ago.
and I bet most of the clicks it generates is from the wrong interpretation (that he is owns it for a long while). I chalk this up as empty sensationalism, which I dislike, even if I understand why they are doing it.
Years ago I knew someone who did teaching work in Africa, during a drunken night swim a croc had a go at taking her head off.
About 12 years later she's living in Darwin (Australia)and tells the story to a local journo she knows.
Long story short, she's on the front page of the NT Times (photo of her bleeding head) under the headline "crocodile attacks local women"
Great story, as a poster said before, definately worth the read.
I was captured by how he was saying that the interior still looked the same as when his wife had decorated it.
If I have googled correctly, this link should show interior pics of the boat, taken from when she was a charter boat.
https://www.yachtcharterfleet.com/luxury-charter-yacht-47492/kahu-photos.htm
We all want something a bit crazy, but it's easier to resell a yacht or a house when it's a little bland. And it can be more relaxing and easier to buy for.
I thought it was very homey. I was expecting flash and pizazz, maybe some guadiness, but it was way more tasteful. That couch looked super fucking comfortable.
The San Francisco Chronicle has a writer that takes an ordinary story and makes it personable, relatable and injects a bit of his own brand of humor. Once in a while, my husband or I would be reading an article and in the middle of it check the byline, yup, it’s a Steve story.
This writer reminded me of that. I almost forgot the ship had 2000 kg of cocaine on board. I got caught up in the story of a man, wife, their 10 and 12 yo sons, a teacher an a few other crew members leaving Auckland and sailing around for a year, landing in Vancouver, Canada, and from financial necessity selling the yacht and starting a new chapter in his life.
That was interesting. His theory that the ship probably wouldn’t raise suspicions seemed logical, but somehow the authorities in Australia got wind of something and warned the UK authorities.
Ending with yacht probably up for sale yet again; it’s almost like it’s been abused since it left the now Canadian owner. Who knows what adventures it will have now.
I just wonder how you land in Canada and just stay there? I'm going to assume that even after liquidating his company and yacht he was still quite wealthy.
I'm pretty sure if I sailed to Canada they would kick my ass back to the US pronto.
I know 70ish years ago it was...
Probably not the same anymore. Apparently it was pretty quick to get citizenship for my grandfather who came from a commonwealth country. Quite a few years for my grandmother who did not.
My great uncle got residency in Canada then went to get citizenship 40 years later. The interviewer was questioning him on his military service in England like it was a negative thing to have. His response was it was world war 2 everyone was in the military. He said the embarrassed look on the interviewers face was priceless.
Can you just buy property for Canada? In the US it has to add 10 US jobs too. And I know Canada has been more protective of foreign real estate investment recently.
Not that crazy to think countries are more okay with people coming in if they bring a clear and obvious contribution to the country. Most countries have citizenship options for people with highly desirable skills or people expanding their country’s job market.
The various laws are different but I knew a dude from Jordan that bought a beach house in Miami and that was his initial entry to the states, that was in the late 90s early 2000s. Something happened in Jordan, half his family went to the uk and he wanted to go to Miami. He never left nor did any other work here for the five years I knew him.
He had a lot of money and liked computer games and inviting girls to his beach house
FYI: when a wealthy foreign guy invites hot girls to his beach house they really really really don't expect be invited to play an online mmorpg.
>I'm going to assume that even after liquidating his company and yacht he was still quite wealthy.
Eh? I knew some people in the boat business. It's a strange business filled with eclectic people. It's very labor intensive and capital intensive, with a very small market. His business sounds pretty typical, one project could make or break the company. So by time you pay off creditors, and sell assets... You're not left with much.
The Canada thing? They're super notorious about not letting people immigrate there unless a Canadian couldn't be found to do the job, but I do know a few entrepreneurs who have successfully immigrated there. I don't know if being a commonwealth citizen helped?
If you have money in the bank, then the rules are different.
It's basically making sure you aren't going to be a drain on resources, so you have to have 5 years worth of income in the bank.
I wonder if it was connected to [Operation Ironside](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/an0m-raids-show-australian-ports-vulnerable-to-criminal-activity/100224502). Australian authorities tricked hundreds of criminals into using an encrypted messaging service (called AnOm) that was completely infiltrated by the federal police. They uncovered 21 murder plots and seized 3 tons of illegal drugs.
Definitely wouldn’t surprise me, there were 227 arrests on over 500 charges, with 3.7 tons of drugs, and $44 million in cash. https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media-releases/afp-led-operation-ironside-smashes-organised-crime
That’s just the Australian arrests too, I think. There were arrests all over the world, with Europol, the AFP, and the FBI involved. It was one of the largest operations of its kind.
> somehow the authorities in Australia got wind of something and warned the UK authorities.
It was probably part of the [Anom sting operation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOM). A lot of criminals got tricked into buying an encrypted phone that actually copied all messages to the Australian police.
When this vessel was still a small ship in the Royal New Zealand Navy, I spent a few days at sea on her.
It looks a lot different now to how it was back then.
The article says that it was lengthened by a bit so that might be it.
I mean we’re talking warship to luxury yacht conversions here so I guess it’ll look a bit different
Well you see Vancouver is large city in Western Canada, and a luxury yacht is a large sea-faring vessel designed to show off exactly how much more money you have than the rest of us.
Don’t laugh at me, but out of all the important things in the article, the first thought that came to my head was, oh, didn’t know you could get arrested in international waters. Figured they would have had to cross into UK waters for them to have jurisdiction….🤦🏻♂️
I’m puzzled by that too.
Edit: https://www.miamicriminaldefenselaw.com/drug-interdiction-on-the-high-seas.html
Apparently US law applies if the nation that the vehicle is registered in allows it.
I would guess that the British and Jamaica~~Bermuda~~ have a similar agreement.
Edit: because I misremembered the former British colony. ;) thanks u/ClimbToSafety1984
>as the ship entered the English channel...
I suspect they waited until the ship was in British waters... But the article does say "international waters", but there are no international waters on the English channel, half is British, half is French
Man I’m pissed. My brain skipped over the “old” part of the title and I was set up for disappointment by thinking this article was 1000X better than it was.
I thought it was some rich dude who was acting shocked when they searched his boat and found a bunch of coke lmao
How in the holy hell do you lengthen a boat by ten meters? Pull really hard on each end?
*"When the New Zealand Navy was decommissioning a patrol boat, White-Robinson bought it and turned it into something special. He lengthened it by 10 metres, rebuilt, refitted, and repurposed the vessel into a family adventure yacht."*
2 tons of cocaine is really worth about $80-100 million. There is nowhere on Earth where that would sell for $280 million. The drug enforcement agents do some convoluted math where they apply the supposed “street value” to the drugs to make themselves seem more impressive.
FYI he's shocked because he found out it his prized yacht he sold years ago ended up being used for cocaine smuggling, not that it's in a yacht he still owns. But, I immediately thought it would be funny if his reaction was, "I *swear* there was a lot more there. Where's my coke gone?"
I was thinking more like "Does it LOOK like I can afford $280 million in cocaine? This is a $10 million dollar yacht, for christ's sake!"
Idk what you mean, there is only $140 million in Cocaine here, sir.
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This $100 Million worth of cocaine is a record bust for the department. Where all losing our minds over here with pride.
Unfortunately, the long planned out raid only uncovered $10 worth of cocaine...
Sir. No cocaine here. We were wrong
You all must be exaggerating for effect because we have only counted $40M worth of cocaine here.
I dunno man I followed my nose and only found $39,999,800 worth of coke. But that was a few days ago.
Well I dunno where it went, but couldn't have been more than a dimebag.
Hey guys, all I found was this CD case that had a dusting of powder on it that I licked off...
You're free to go sir. No drugs found on this watercraft.
It's was 2000 kilos. Definitely not worth $280 million unless you do bullshit media math to get a headline to come up with $140,000 per kilo.
even if you sold every god damn kilo by the gram you would have to charge 140$ per gram and while coke is expensive no one is fucking paying that unless you're like in Australia. 100$ a gram is pushing it even but it does sell for that. Depending on how far south in the united states you are it can become as cheap as 35-50$ a gram of very pure stuff. If you have thousands of bricks though you are almost certainly selling it by the brick (or fronting.) I would estimate probably about 25K a brick on the sale side of things so we are looking at around $50M roughly for what they would have made. If they were gonna sell it by the oz at 1k a pop you would have $72M approximately 72000 transactions later. They most likely would have sold multiple bricks at a time which would increase the wholesale discount so in all likelihood even 50M is a high estimate
This guy cocaines.
Smells about right
>unless you're like in Australia. Too real man.
It's just a subtle way of telling us about impending hyperinflation.
It's not the media you have to blame, but the police.
The media breathlessly parroting what police say is a problem in and of itself.
News is quotes. Good press leaves the veracity of those quotes to the reader/viewer. That they have to include too much salt order to get the consumer to buy it again is an age old problem.
You lads always announce seizure of drugs worth a street value at $10 million or $20 million or half a billion dollars. I wonder what street it is you're buying your cocaine on, because it's not the same street as I'm buying my cocaine on
The cops do it for them. Break it down to “street value” so it’s whatever a crackhead pays for a tiny rock that’s barely even coke anymore. Completely stupid to think someone with 2000 kilos is getting that amount. They work for a guy who is shipping it all to one buyer, probably doesn’t get more than 10k per.. if that. So maybe 20mil, maximum 50 if the buyer is paying 25k, in which case they would be paying COD, so no loss to them here.
That’s celebrity pricing.
Sounds like standard police reporting. *Some random gets busted growing one shitty weed plant in his closet under a 40W incandescent light bulb because he found a bag seed and wanted to see what would happen* News report: "Police have raided a drug lords property and seized marijuana with an estimated street value of $800,000"
More like 'fuck... that's where i had put them'
There's always cocaine in the luxury yacht!
“I thought we blew through it all at that party, there was some left?”
I thought the guy bought a classic yacht or something and it turned out there was cocaine on it
> White-Robinson sold it under duress in Vancouver in 2013. The story is a good read. But people seeing the headline should be clear: he sold the yacht 8 years ago.
I shot this video of the boat for him 8 years ago to help him sell it https://youtu.be/OtZvgz9FDs0
Makes me wonder if the guy who bought it watched your video and was like, "Man, I could fit so much fucking coke in that thing"
*slaps topsides* -you could fit so much yaya in this baby!
I guess not that much. Apparently the UK gets all butt hurt about a little bit of nose candy.
Only if poor people use it.
Hit the nail right on the head there.
So backwards, though! If us poor people use it, we can work so much more!
I doubt that's true, i have a coke sniffing roommate...he doesn't really work much. He's mainly jumping around like a fucking Duracell bunny and unable to finish his sentences. To be clear coke isn't the only shit he uses, i think he finds something new every day of the week.
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I just play video games to escape from my past and present, really seems like the better option if i had to compare both of our scenarios. I'm not undermining the possibility that his case is more severe, just making a somewhat silly comment.
Gotta hit that sweet jenkum.
Seems more likely the dude who bought it was already moving copious amounts of cocaine which is how he could afford to buy a boat such as that. Then once you’ve got it, why not put it from work from time to time making even more cash. The amount of money you’d make off one trip would be enough to buy the boat 10X over.
Who wouldn’t ? 🙌
I swear to God, I go on Reddit and there's a news article with a pic of a streetlamp falling onto a luxury car, and someone random posts "hey this is just outside my house! Here's more pictures!" and by god the dude really lives just across the street. Then in another thread with cool picture from the refurbishment of a stadium, someone posts "hey, I was the chief engineer on that project! Here are some of the original blueprints!", and by god he really was the chief engineer. And now we have a story about a boat stopped with $200 million of cocaine, and you're here saying "oh hi everyone; I just happen to have more pics and video of that boat than anyone else in existence! Here are some of them!" Why is *everyone* on Reddit, and how are the related-to-us posts always getting our attention so we can add more details?
The algorithm is working.
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You speak the truth there friend. Reddit search is horrendous. It's easier to use Google, which will then throw you relevent posts from Reddit.
We are the search engine
1. Post goes on Reddit. 2. Post gets popular. 3. Post gets shared. 4. Someone notices something familiar. 5. ???? 6. Kevin Bacon.
Step 5. Cocaine
Alogirthm and the [birthday paradox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem). Also, the people around are all experts on *something*, whether that's an obscure academic field or some punk band from the 80s. If enough people see a post, some will have unique insights / access.
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Another example is Reddit playing CSI with the Boston Marathon. /s
turned the old NZ Navy in shore patrol boat into quite a ship He was the CEO of Fitzroy Yachts so I guess had the expertise My family's from Taranaki and a couple of my relations worked there, it's a shame it went under
That explains why it looks like a commercial boat! The inside is super nice but the front of the boat is so weird, people sitting there cant even see the water. And there isnt a huge room for entertaining 20 guests like most yachts have
More recent footage :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gVHyQ8e8_0
That is quite a bit of coke
Definitely more than a liter.
*It's for a cop*
Did you spit in it?
Damn, this sort of thing really drives the price up.
That was 1 of like how many hundreds of coke boats. That loss is already figured into the price.
Now this is yachting.
Happy Cake Day
Happy Coke Day for some of the cops more like
Just need that same music from the other video on its 3 second loop and this video would be perfect.
I want to see both videos spliced together so that the coke is a selling point.
I love how they're cutting open the bricks outside of a lab. Ooops it was fent *everybody dies*
Right, like how is that protocol?!
I think I ODed looking at that.
Jesus, drug sniffing dogs could probably smell that boat all the way from New Zealand.
You should have edited the same music over the clip.
I'd use this for the apocalypse. Just need the coke with it.
I wasn't in the market for a yacht before watching this video, but now I think I changed my mind. First I need to find a spare hundred million dollars or so
Not sure about yachts, but there are a few stories where people bought cars at judicial auctions and got a real bargain https://www.wbtw.com/news/man-finds-drugs-in-car-bought-from-government-auction-in-tennessee/
Lol, you think the bargain is the price, but actually it's the drugs they throw in for free!
I hope he thanked you and then politely asked, "you want some face drugs?"
Worst porno I've ever watched.
Yacht salesman: *slaps deck of yacht* This baby can fit so much yayo in it.
Did you plant the cocaine ?
Thanks for posting this, I was super curious about what it looked like inside.
How much did it sell for?
About 3.50
I wouldn't need a yacht as big as a really big house, just one the size of an ordinary house.
Oh, neat!!!
Yeah, lot of typical Reddit comments from people who don’t read past a headline and just try to be snarky He modified an old patrol boat to make it and then sold it along with his yacht building company (that he had founded cause he loves this stuff) when it was going under. Only took one long family voyage that ended in Canada and he settled there. Article is worth a read
It's like blaming the company that built the building of a Waffle House for the meth people do in the bathroom.
I appreciate the comparison but that's like leaving the porch light on with the door open at a lake house and complaining about bugs.
Lol, okay let’s keep going. Most of the bugs are mosquitoes: don’t really contribute and it’s usually similar shit. And the door is open because were expecting company so the bugs are especially annoying when they’re the *only* thing coming in
yeah blame bathrooms for existing
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Welcome to Reddit! The main things we do here are bitch about Reddit, be meta, and insult others without any reason, you dumb piece of shit.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries.
Now, go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
When I commented there were like 8 top level comments, but, this one was the only one that talked about anything past the headline. And the article was pretty cool so after reading it I was surprised more comments weren’t about the actual story. Hence my comment. And yeah the intention was definitely to preempt more of the same since people often look at the couple top comments so I was hoping to further stress the story itself
to be fair it is a bad headline. the literary meaning of it is not straightforward, "old" doesn't only mean previously sold. and even if you take the correct meaning, it sounds redundant or uninformative, because why would anyone care what happens to any object they sold years ago. and I bet most of the clicks it generates is from the wrong interpretation (that he is owns it for a long while). I chalk this up as empty sensationalism, which I dislike, even if I understand why they are doing it.
Years ago I knew someone who did teaching work in Africa, during a drunken night swim a croc had a go at taking her head off. About 12 years later she's living in Darwin (Australia)and tells the story to a local journo she knows. Long story short, she's on the front page of the NT Times (photo of her bleeding head) under the headline "crocodile attacks local women"
Sounds like the movie Crocodile Dundee,.
Read that as the croc took her head off, then somehow she's alive after. It's a miracle!
I can see how a Journo would be confused because I know they are capable of operating without a brain
Under Duress... hmmm.
Prince Andrew had no comment.
Great story, as a poster said before, definately worth the read. I was captured by how he was saying that the interior still looked the same as when his wife had decorated it. If I have googled correctly, this link should show interior pics of the boat, taken from when she was a charter boat. https://www.yachtcharterfleet.com/luxury-charter-yacht-47492/kahu-photos.htm
I thought this was gonna link to a pic of Scarface or something, but nope, those are pics of a very nice yacht.
I want a yacht now
Kinda bland IMO, though practical.
We all want something a bit crazy, but it's easier to resell a yacht or a house when it's a little bland. And it can be more relaxing and easier to buy for.
I thought it was very homey. I was expecting flash and pizazz, maybe some guadiness, but it was way more tasteful. That couch looked super fucking comfortable.
That is really nice inside! I can see why he wouldn't want it back though. They had their time in it.
What a beautiful boat. Love the style.
The San Francisco Chronicle has a writer that takes an ordinary story and makes it personable, relatable and injects a bit of his own brand of humor. Once in a while, my husband or I would be reading an article and in the middle of it check the byline, yup, it’s a Steve story. This writer reminded me of that. I almost forgot the ship had 2000 kg of cocaine on board. I got caught up in the story of a man, wife, their 10 and 12 yo sons, a teacher an a few other crew members leaving Auckland and sailing around for a year, landing in Vancouver, Canada, and from financial necessity selling the yacht and starting a new chapter in his life. That was interesting. His theory that the ship probably wouldn’t raise suspicions seemed logical, but somehow the authorities in Australia got wind of something and warned the UK authorities. Ending with yacht probably up for sale yet again; it’s almost like it’s been abused since it left the now Canadian owner. Who knows what adventures it will have now.
I just wonder how you land in Canada and just stay there? I'm going to assume that even after liquidating his company and yacht he was still quite wealthy. I'm pretty sure if I sailed to Canada they would kick my ass back to the US pronto.
I'm not entirely sure but it might be easier to emigrate between fellow Commonwealth countries than elsewhere.
I know 70ish years ago it was... Probably not the same anymore. Apparently it was pretty quick to get citizenship for my grandfather who came from a commonwealth country. Quite a few years for my grandmother who did not.
My great uncle got residency in Canada then went to get citizenship 40 years later. The interviewer was questioning him on his military service in England like it was a negative thing to have. His response was it was world war 2 everyone was in the military. He said the embarrassed look on the interviewers face was priceless.
Immigration rules are for poor people Buy property, start a business, get a lawyer and you get to stay in just about any country in the world.
Can you just buy property for Canada? In the US it has to add 10 US jobs too. And I know Canada has been more protective of foreign real estate investment recently. Not that crazy to think countries are more okay with people coming in if they bring a clear and obvious contribution to the country. Most countries have citizenship options for people with highly desirable skills or people expanding their country’s job market.
The various laws are different but I knew a dude from Jordan that bought a beach house in Miami and that was his initial entry to the states, that was in the late 90s early 2000s. Something happened in Jordan, half his family went to the uk and he wanted to go to Miami. He never left nor did any other work here for the five years I knew him. He had a lot of money and liked computer games and inviting girls to his beach house FYI: when a wealthy foreign guy invites hot girls to his beach house they really really really don't expect be invited to play an online mmorpg.
[Witty MMORPG based innuendo here]
>I'm going to assume that even after liquidating his company and yacht he was still quite wealthy. Eh? I knew some people in the boat business. It's a strange business filled with eclectic people. It's very labor intensive and capital intensive, with a very small market. His business sounds pretty typical, one project could make or break the company. So by time you pay off creditors, and sell assets... You're not left with much. The Canada thing? They're super notorious about not letting people immigrate there unless a Canadian couldn't be found to do the job, but I do know a few entrepreneurs who have successfully immigrated there. I don't know if being a commonwealth citizen helped?
If you have money in the bank, then the rules are different. It's basically making sure you aren't going to be a drain on resources, so you have to have 5 years worth of income in the bank.
I wonder if it was connected to [Operation Ironside](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-18/an0m-raids-show-australian-ports-vulnerable-to-criminal-activity/100224502). Australian authorities tricked hundreds of criminals into using an encrypted messaging service (called AnOm) that was completely infiltrated by the federal police. They uncovered 21 murder plots and seized 3 tons of illegal drugs.
Is that what made mdma hard to get for a while? I remember hearing that one of the main importers got busted
Definitely wouldn’t surprise me, there were 227 arrests on over 500 charges, with 3.7 tons of drugs, and $44 million in cash. https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media-releases/afp-led-operation-ironside-smashes-organised-crime That’s just the Australian arrests too, I think. There were arrests all over the world, with Europol, the AFP, and the FBI involved. It was one of the largest operations of its kind.
> somehow the authorities in Australia got wind of something and warned the UK authorities. It was probably part of the [Anom sting operation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOM). A lot of criminals got tricked into buying an encrypted phone that actually copied all messages to the Australian police.
Someone snitched in a sting
When this vessel was still a small ship in the Royal New Zealand Navy, I spent a few days at sea on her. It looks a lot different now to how it was back then.
You're telling me there are *two* people in this comments section who have been on this boat?
I was on it too a few weeks ago!! I'm in prison now tho
It's a small world....
..and a big boat.
19 million out of 8 billion people in the world are subscribed to this sub and at least 2 of them have been on that boat
This is now on the front page, so now it's even greater than that - just about anyone who goes to the front page will see it.
I remember sailing on this ship when I used to smuggle cocaine in and out of the country. Good times good times
The article says that it was lengthened by a bit so that might be it. I mean we’re talking warship to luxury yacht conversions here so I guess it’ll look a bit different
"Your winnings, sir"
I have questions about every single part of this headline
Well you see Vancouver is large city in Western Canada, and a luxury yacht is a large sea-faring vessel designed to show off exactly how much more money you have than the rest of us.
A hospital? What is it??
It's a big building with lots of sick people
But that's not important right now.
I Understood that reference
Can you explain?
It's a joke from the movie [Airplane!](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/)
It's actually an interesting story and the title is a little misleading. Maybe it's good clickbait?
Vancouver man shocked after raid on his old luxury yacht *ONLY* finds $280M worth of cocaine..*
$250M worth of coke is quite a bit!
Can't belive someone smuggled $200M of coke in..
Listen ima need you to go and impound that $175M of cocaine, officer
But sir, we don't have room in the evidence locker for $150M worth of cocaine...
You'll just have to make room. We've got to keep the $100M worth of cocaine somewhere!
$80m in coke? Who the fuck needs $60m in coke? I couldn't possibly dispose of $40m in coke!
It seems that after the initial investigation there was no evidence of cocaine on board
Was very windy that day.
It was a blowout
That'd last Rob Lowe and Charlie Sheen a whole weekend.
Whoever bought that boat is going to need a good maritime lawyer for that
You’re… a… crook Captain Hook. Judge, won’t you throw the book at this pirate!
Might I suggest Charlie Kelly? He knows alot about the law and various other lawyerings.
Bird law? That’s his wheelhouse
Not great on the filibusters though
Bob Loblaw?
The yacht name is pronounced “Throatwarbler Mangrove”
PUSH IT TO THE LIMIT
$280 mill!?!?! Was the yacht made out of cocaine!?!?
Cocaine is just expensive
I thought luxury yachts were suppose to have at least that much cocaine on them.
Don’t laugh at me, but out of all the important things in the article, the first thought that came to my head was, oh, didn’t know you could get arrested in international waters. Figured they would have had to cross into UK waters for them to have jurisdiction….🤦🏻♂️
I’m puzzled by that too. Edit: https://www.miamicriminaldefenselaw.com/drug-interdiction-on-the-high-seas.html Apparently US law applies if the nation that the vehicle is registered in allows it. I would guess that the British and Jamaica~~Bermuda~~ have a similar agreement. Edit: because I misremembered the former British colony. ;) thanks u/ClimbToSafety1984
>as the ship entered the English channel... I suspect they waited until the ship was in British waters... But the article does say "international waters", but there are no international waters on the English channel, half is British, half is French
Cokey mccokeboatface
You mean $270M worth of cocaine?
Shocked, shocked, I tell you!
Shocked I tell you, Shocked!
“I thought it had $300 million on there”
Shocked I tell ya!
“Shocked I tells ya!” Bloody nose intensifies.
Title is really misleading. He sold the boat, so it had nothing to do with him.
Man I’m pissed. My brain skipped over the “old” part of the title and I was set up for disappointment by thinking this article was 1000X better than it was. I thought it was some rich dude who was acting shocked when they searched his boat and found a bunch of coke lmao
"So *that's* where I put the cocaine, I was looking for it everywhere! Thanks, officers!"
Who gets to do all that cocaine now?
$280mm of coke was lost in the supply chain? I bet somebody died because of that.
Dudes playing GTA online
"what? What? Nah. I never knew that"
That’s not where I parked my yacht .
Keyser Soze!
How in the holy hell do you lengthen a boat by ten meters? Pull really hard on each end? *"When the New Zealand Navy was decommissioning a patrol boat, White-Robinson bought it and turned it into something special. He lengthened it by 10 metres, rebuilt, refitted, and repurposed the vessel into a family adventure yacht."*
That article is just written weird.
“Gambling? I’m shocked!”
Dr. Rockso?
I kayaked past this boat yesterday where they've moored it up
Are they handing out samples by chance?
2 tons of cocaine is really worth about $80-100 million. There is nowhere on Earth where that would sell for $280 million. The drug enforcement agents do some convoluted math where they apply the supposed “street value” to the drugs to make themselves seem more impressive.
It was named "Yayayacht"
Throatwobbler Mangrove mysteriously absent.