there's no reason to store it, weighed and certified, samples taken, done, destroy the rest
Posted on 07/21/2019 8:53:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In a report released Friday, the Homeland Security Department's Inspector General said the amount of fentanyl seized by agents and stored in vaults has skyrocketed -- from 70 pounds in 2015 to 3,500 pounds so far in this budget year.
In a response letter, CBP said it concurred with the findings and promised that by the end of September all its vaults storing fentanyl will have Narcan kits and that its agents will be trained in how to use them.
CBP said it has trained more than 4,500 officers in how to recognize the signs of an overdose, deployed 3,300 dual-use Narcan kits in the field and outfitted its storage vaults with safety equipment such as gloves, masks and Tyvek suits.
"Canine units are particularly at risk of immediate death from inhaling fentanyl. In August 2015, law enforcement officers in New Jersey doing a narcotics field test on a substance that later turned out to be a mix of heroin, cocaine and fentanyl, were exposed to the mixture and experienced dizziness, shortness of breath and respiratory problems."
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I bet forensic chemistry would prove majority came from China.
How do they destroy all of this??
Very carefully
They just had a bust this last month 20 20 TONS of coke on a single ship.
At that point I asked - how much does a nuke weigh?
Use it on Death Row prisoners. That should take a load off both problems. No drugs that take time or don’t work completely. Save the CBP.
there's no reason to store it, weighed and certified, samples taken, done, destroy the rest
You can’t exactly dump it in the garbage. If it gets on your skin, it’ll kill you. That’s how lethal this stuff is.
When you catch a smuggler, just offer to let him go after he eats his entire shipment. Cannot leave the table until it is all gone.
Can’t we just aerial disperse it over Cartel HQ’s?
Besides, the Border Patrol are all raciss, anyway.
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Oh, gee. How did that picture of Sandy the beer wench, get on that post? I don’t believe she ever said anything quite like that.
Oh, my!
Can it be loaded in a spray plane? I have some suggestions on wher to spray.
Not always lethal when used in an approved medical setting - I burned off the skin of my right hand awhile back and the first thing they gave me was a shot of fentanyl for the pain. Dont know why people get addicted to that stuff, it didnt do a thing for me.
“Off” my hand, not “of”.
“How do they destroy all of this??”
The better question to be asked is “why are they storing any of it?” Fentayl in those quantities is more like a chemical weapon than a drug. Furthermore, we should make non-prescription possession of it a capital crime.
My wife’s a chemist ( Not I) I would assume anything can be neutralized chemically. I would Take a lot of chemicals I suppose. OR
Dump it in a weighed down cage into the deepest part of the ocean where there is no or little life. Mariana’s trench. Let it tea bag out until the parts-per billion make it safe. OR. Get Elon Musk to shoot it into the sun. OR
Incineration probably might be the best or it could kill everyone down wind?
A few well placed devices and a cloud of death could blow across miles of America.
Cheap to make. Just just let the authorities catch it, transport it and pile it up.
Then blow it up.
Seems I may have seen a movie like that back in the day.
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