Posted on 11/03/2009 3:14:12 AM PST by bogusname
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar burnt more than £1million to keep his daughter warm during a single night on the run, it has emerged.
The infamous cocaine baron lit a bonfire using wads of U.S. dollars at a mountain hideout while he was being hunted by authorities, his son has claimed. Sebastian Marroqumn, who has changed his name from Juan Pablo Escobar, said his father burnt the notes when he realized daughter Manuela was suffering from hypothermia...
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I agree. What a piker! He needs a US congressman to show him how it’s REALLY done!
So basically he turned more than a million dollars back over to the US treasury.
That amount of drug money represents one “H” of a lot of screwed up lives I would imagine.
The irony.
Why did he have his daughter while he was on the run? Trying to kill her, too?
Don’t worry, Obama replaces that much every 5 minutes.
Nice that he cared so much about his daughter.
Disgusting that he didn’t give a damn about the children of other people that he destroyed making that money.
The story is that he was on the run from “authorities”, hiding in some mountainous area when he built the “bonfire” to keep his daughter warm.
I surmise it must have been very high up, and above the tree growth line for there not to be combustibles about to burn other than his drug money.
Daughter was probably with him to protect her from the competing cartel that sicced the “authorities” on him in the first place from kidnapping and killing her.
Those sorts aren’t all that bright, but seemingly loyal to their blood kin.
So basically he turned more than a million dollars back over to the US treasury.””
Who then promptly printed it all again, laughed, and re-issued it to some “poor” people with big new cars , color TV, huge fat butts, gold neck chains ....... have you seen them next to you shopping?
Cuz I have.
Their purchases, with FOOD STAMPS, made mine seem tiny and poor by comparison!
Oh well having gone this far might as well tell you more -
She, all 120 kg of her, was buying Live Maine Lobsters @ $29 a pound, with food stamps, !!!!!!!!! while I was buying cornflakes and hamburger meat and normal food for my 3 normal kids.
I cannot tell you the rest.
You can’t stop with the lobsters; tell the rest
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