What would you do if you found a kilo of cocaine on the beach? Take it? Sell it? Return it? Ignore it? Go wild?
Hopefully this isn’t one of the weird hypotheticals you thought about when you were a kid, but one dude on Reddit got to answer that same question in real life when he and his bros came across a very large amount of cocaine.
Here’s the full story from Reddit:
Maybe I should elaborate: This happened in 2013 my freshman year of college when a group of friends and myself decided to go surfing. As we were heading out a friend came across a black saran wrapped square of substance. They figured it was trash, but I knew due to the fact that my father is a federal agent for ATF that this was most likely something more.
We unwrapped the black saran wrap to find this white material, that smelled like ether, and had a “Lexus” symbol on it. (The drug cartels use these symbols to organize batches / trace origins.) The guys I was with were absolutely clueless what to do, and thought the best Idea would be to bury it for now, go surf, and deal with it after… I explained to them that they were idiots and we needed to take it to the police right this second.
Once I convinced them this was cocaine we went back to the car, and I called my father to find out what we should do. (we got it to the car by sticking it in one of the guys swim trucks…)
He then called the local police station who was alerted that a group of surfers were driving to them with a kilo.
We dropped off the cocaine to the police who ignorantly responded: “Wow I’ve never seen one of these before. I bet you could of sold this for like $100,000.” (going rate for a kilo in FL is more like $25,000)
Then we asked if we were going to receive a reward? He told us we could call crime stoppers but we probably wouldn’t get a reward. He said “I bet our chief will take you to McDonalds if you want?“
When we were leaving I asked if he would take a photo of us with it which he did, and these photos, and the look on peoples face when we tell them we found a kilo of cocaine are about the only reward we received so far.
The craziest part isn’t what he did with it, but that he had the balls to post a photo of it on the internet with his real face and identifying marks about the cocaine. Don’t you know that dealers have killed for less?
