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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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This is honestly hilarious to me. Like, is this just a smuggler having a laugh? Was he hoping this would avoid suspicion? or is this actually meant to be a Space-X purchase and Elon's monthly shipment went down in Brazil? The branding on that brick just brings up so many questions.
I have no experience with bricks of cocaine, but for other substances I've seen them branded kind of like this.
Pills with Mitsubishi, playboy, or hello kitty logos pressed on the pill itself. LSD sheets with printed pictures, usually not brand logos. Hashish 100g mini-bricks (this are what I've seen the most) with anything from logos, cartoons, random drawings, even pictures of famous people (some months ago I got a Ronaldinho, lol).
I guess it's like XTC? Just some random branding to differentiate from others?
Also it's not like they have to worry about take down notices or copyright lawsuits