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Pilot dies after plane carrying nearly 200kg of SpaceX-branded cocaine crashes in remote Brazil
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2025
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Some drug traffickers use existing brands to "market" themselves.
Here's some Afghan heroin seized and destroyed by the international coalition on the Arabian Sea in 2021:
I was about to say, who would ever brand their cocaine, whether it was actually SpaceX or some random cartel? I would get the "brand identification" argument at the end user stage, but marking your bulk shipment of drugs just seems dumb.
Any other company and I'd probably go yeah, the dealers did that, but I wholeheartedly believe Tesla has a cocaine manufacturing department.
This one being fake doesn't prevent a real one from existing.
I only get that Johnny Chimpo branded stuff. It's Afghanistanimation!
Id ride in a bently, I wouldnt ride in a spacex or tesler