A drugs haul weighing more than an elephant has been seized in the Mexican navy’s biggest ever drugs bust.
The operation saw 23 people arrested off the country’s southwest coast.
The haul weighed some 8,400kg - an elephant can weigh up to 6,000kg on average, according to the WWF.
“This represents the largest quantity of drugs seized in a maritime operation, without precedent in the history of the institution,” the navy said in a statement.
Heavier than an African or an Asian elephant?
Laden or unladen?
I don’t know that!
Well I don’t know that!
Sounds like it was also heavier than a pickup truck and a tardigrade.
“Heavier than” is not an especially good metric. Especially when you’re talking about something that’s 1400 kg heavier.
It’s an average elephant. Maybe there are elephants heavier than the haul
But they had to explain that in the article, which also makes it a bad metric. “This is heavier than X you don’t know the weight of. By the way, this is how much X weighs on average.” Maybe measure it against something people understand the weight of since they’ve been around them much more often. Like a car. Or maybe something they’ve even had experience moving like a fridge or a piano.
What KINDS of drugs though?
An elephants worth of weed is way different from phanty fenty.
How many Olympic-size swimming pools would it fill?
Or how many Eiffel towers long it is when laid out end-to-end
For serious. These guys couldn’t seize an elephant, pfft.
Oh, wait. Is this implying that being seized by this particular squad affects the elephant’s weight?
I’ll tell you if you give me the dimension of the pool in standard banana units.
How many stones?
A large boulder (the sise of a tiny boulder)
More than a pebble, less than an asteroid.
African elephant or Asian elephant?
How much is that in Libraries of Congress?
Wow 300,000 ounces. Talk about a lifetime supply
Not for Charlie Sheen
How many cubic elephants is your refrigerator? Is it 27millielephants?
But where do the Mexican Navy seize the elephant?
This is so sad.
Legalize it already.
It will make most “criminals” become friendly to the police and help them catch actual criminals.
I will need a banana for size reference
No can do, the elephant ate the banana
If you were to lay it put in a football field how much would it cover? As an american having trouble comprehending this elephant comparison.
I thought we agreed to use rhinos as the measuring unit for drugs?
How big an elephant though? Or are we not talking about it?
Depends, is the elephant in the room with us now?
Couldn’t really say.
