REPORT: GERMANS SEIZE COCAINE ADDRESSED TO VATICAN

[GeorgeGist]

Source: AP

BERLIN (AP) — The drug haul was unremarkable, but the destination raised eyebrows.

German weekly Bild am Sonntag reported Sunday that customs officials intercepted a cocaine shipment destined for the Vatican in January.

Officers at Leipzig airport found 340 grams (12 ounces) of the drug packed into 14 condoms inside a shipment of cushions coming from South America.

The paper says the package was simply addressed to the Vatican postal office, meaning any of the Catholic mini-state's 800 residents could have picked it up.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/report-germans-seize-cocaine-addressed-vatican

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[Champion Jack]

1. Gee thanks Germans…

Way to harsh the Popes buzz...

[HereSince1628]

2. Cocaine? That's a cover...for serious smuggling of CONDOMS!!!

into the Vatican.

[okaawhatever]

19. Brilliant. lolz. nt

[JudyM]

24. Good one! Still smiling... nt

[aquart]

34. Brilliant.

[L0oniX]

3. What was that old religious song with "white as snow" in it? ...and

ya got to wonder about the OMG condoms! Oh ...and I guess the Vatican postal office knows who its users are.


On the other hand this might be a prank? Hmmm If it is then it is an expensive one. 12 Oz of good cocaine is a lot of money. Isn't the street level price still about $80 a gram?

[bigworld]

4. You don't have to be a citizen of the Vatican

to get a package addressed to Poste Restante (General Delivery). Anyone travelling through could claim it.

[sabbat hunter]

7. Or it could be

for someone in the Italy customs office that was expecting the item, knew to pull it.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. The only problem I see with this is that condoms are forbidden.

[Gore1FL]

6. I wonder what that transubstantiates into n/t

[Indi Guy]

28. Maybe...

...one of your "Cardinals" can tell you.

[Orrex]

33. That would lead to a host of problems.

[dflprincess]

36. Well done

[Orrex]

8. That explains the flying nun.

[JudyM]

25. Now that's a classic. Excellent! nt

[Fozzledick]

9. Vin Mariani?

Vin Mariani (French: Mariani's wine) was a tonic and patent medicine created circa 1863 by Angelo Mariani, a French chemist who became intrigued with coca and its economic potential after reading Paolo Mantegazza’s paper on coca's effects. In 1863,[1][2] Mariani started marketing a wine called Vin Tonique Mariani (à la Coca du Pérou)[1] which was made from Bordeaux wine treated with coca leaves.[3]

The ethanol in the wine acted as a solvent and extracted the cocaine from the coca leaves, altering the drink’s effect. It originally contained 6 mg of cocaine per fluid ounce of wine, but Vin Mariani that was to be exported contained 7.2 mg per ounce, in order to compete with the higher cocaine content of similar drinks in the United States. Advertisements for Vin Mariani claimed that it would restore health, strength, energy, and vitality.

Vin Mariani was very popular in its day, even among royalty such as Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland. Pope Leo XIII and later Pope Saint Pius X were both Vin Mariani drinkers. Pope Leo awarded a Vatican gold medal to the wine, and also appeared on a poster endorsing it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Mariani

[dhill926]

10. ah…those were the days….

[tofuandbeer]

17. Wow!

[Beacool]

39. That just proves it, there's nothing new under the sun.

[Arugula Latte]

11. They need it to perform that little magic trick with the crackers.

[Sunlei]

12. so who ordered the shipment of cushions?

"inside a shipment of cushions"

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. Sex and drugs and rock 'n roll

condoms, blow, and nice cushions for rock 'n and rolling!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. This is outrageous! Who in the Vatican is buying ...

... condoms?

[kickysnana]

15. Anybody can send anything to anyone to smear them. Waiting for the rest of this story before posting

[Feral Child]

20. Expensive prank.

12 ounces is a lot of blow.

[Jesus Malverde]

22. They make that shit by the ton

12 ounces isn't that much for traffickers.

[Ken Burch]

23. I'm thinking "Ratzi" ordered it...

...after all, he's got to find SOME way of augmenting his pension...

[Feral Child]

31. Who have a specific grudge against the Pope.

Really, you believe that someone would go to those lengths to discredit the Catholic Church?

What reward is there? What would be accomplished?

Why is it easier for you to believe in a convoluted plot than the simpler likelihood that some priest likes to get his blow on?

There are lots of priests and nuns with substance abuse problems.

[dogknob]

16. Holy Septum!

This is not going to contribute in any significant way to eradicating the stereotype that Germans are no fun.

[dogknob]

18. [Genesis 2:7]:

"The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being."

[AAO]

21. Should be easy to tell who it's for

Either look on the label in the delivery address, or if it only says "Deliver to the Vatican", it's obviously someone in the mail-room working as the drug dealer for someone (or many) in the Vatican.

[gopiscrap]

26. Hs nose does look a little messed up.

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[burrowowl]

27. Witty Comments on this Thread!

[Indi Guy]

29. I have it on good authority that...

...the narc who reported the stash to the German officials is a descendant of Martin Luther.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

30. The Pope loves God. God created heaven and earth. God created everything on heaven and Earth

So God created cocaine. . .so the Pope should love cocaine.

And I have no problems with it. Everyone must get stoned!

[Bossy Monkey]

32. Everybody says the Pope is a rock star... (n/t)

[KamaAina]

35. Did we ever find out why Ratz resigned?

[Orsino]

37. That explains those feelings of infallibility. n/t

[Beacool]

38. This Pope is even cooler than I thought.

I guess that he had been missing his regular delivery since he became Pope.