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Post by mom on Oct 23, 2017 15:59:52 GMT
A Florida couple ordered storage totes from Amazon, but when the package arrived, they found 65 pounds of marijuana inside. When a woman and her fiance, neither of whom wished to be identified, needed to put some things in storage, they placed an order on Amazon for four 27-gallon storage totes. But as soon as they received the package, they knew something didn’t feel right. "They were extremely heavy, more heavy than you would think from ordering four empty bins,” the woman said. After opening the box, the two were hit with a strong odor, and under layers of packaging, they found 65 pounds of marijuana. The couple immediately called the police. "When the first officer got there, she was actually in disbelief,” the woman said. Police seized the drugs and launched an investigation. The package had been shipped by Amazon’s Warehouse Deals via UPS from a facility in Massachusetts. It weighed 93.5 pounds. The couple says after going back and forth with Amazon – mostly by email – for more than a month, they never spoke to a supervisor. Finally, they received an email, giving them a $150 gift card with the message: “I am unable to do anything else at this time.” The woman says what she and her fiance wanted was an apology and an explanation about how this could happen. "There was no concern for a customer's safety. I mean this could have turned into a worst-case scenario,” the woman said. "We were… pretty fearful our home would be broken into, and we didn't sleep there for a few days.” Police have yet to make an arrest in the case, but they say the investigation is ongoing. Amazon said in a statement its customer service team worked directly with the customer to address concerns, and the company will work with law enforcement to investigate the case. www.newschannel10.com/story/36656970/65-pounds-of-marijuana-arrive-with-couples-amazon-order?utm_content=buffer1b734&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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MizIndependent
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Post by MizIndependent on Oct 23, 2017 16:03:26 GMT
Well that's just unsettling.
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Post by compwalla on Oct 23, 2017 16:07:56 GMT
Well, I'm jealous.
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Post by MDscrapaholic on Oct 23, 2017 16:10:24 GMT
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Post by Basket1lady on Oct 23, 2017 16:14:21 GMT
Can you imagine! I can understand why the couple was afraid to stay in their home. I would imagine that someone would come looking for that! I'm guessing the smuggler planned to grab the box before the buyer got to it?
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Post by mom on Oct 23, 2017 16:14:56 GMT
The first thing that came to mind while reading the article was that I was certain a few Peas would have loved to have gotten that shipment. SaveSave
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Post by mom on Oct 23, 2017 16:16:40 GMT
Can you imagine! I can understand why the couple was afraid to stay in their home. I would imagine that someone would come looking for that! I'm guessing the smuggler planned to grab the box before the buyer got to it?Thats what I am thinking. Now it has me wondering if something else was in some of my Amazon packages that disappeared from my doorstep before I could grab them. Hmmm. SaveSave
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 16:30:10 GMT
Some warehouse employee is probably freaking out that 1) his stash is gone and 2) his gig is up.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 16:33:23 GMT
Now is this a Prime benefit I am unaware of?
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Oct 23, 2017 16:34:40 GMT
Now is this a Prime benefit I am unaware of?
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Post by destined2bmom on Oct 23, 2017 16:41:41 GMT
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Post by River on Oct 23, 2017 17:00:30 GMT
Yikes! I know a teeny tiny bit of what they felt when DH brought home a small dresser from a flea market type place. He wanted to refinish it and use it in our bedroom. He took the 3 drawers out and started sanding, when he turned it upside down to do the bottom, he saw a large bag taped to the back side panel. We assumed it was marijuana, neither of us have ever tried it or been around it. It's kind of funny now because we both just froze and stunned stupid looking down at it. Neither of us wanted to touch it! Then of course, DS came into the room and saw what we were looking at. He got a different impression and said "umm dad, why are you hiding a bag of pot?" That broke the silence and we burst out laughing. The pot got flushed down the toilet. Now I kinda regret not trying it when we had the chance.
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Post by compwalla on Oct 23, 2017 17:09:40 GMT
Sixty-five pounds of weed is a LOT of weed. It is 29,120 grams of weed. A very heavy user can go through maybe 14 grams a day and that is a LOT to use in a day. Even at that level, 65 lbs of weed is a five and a half year supply of weed. It is over $400,000 worth of cannabis at retail price and would be about a 280 year supply of weed for a casual user.
If a windfall like this were to be delivered to my door, I'd report the package stolen, hustle the weed out of my house in vacuum sealed bags and into a safe location, change my name to Nancy Botwin, and start a new career. And I'd have to personally test for quality just to ensure that I'm not risking jail for schwag.
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Post by lemondrop on Oct 23, 2017 17:15:00 GMT
Sixty-five pounds of weed is a LOT of weed. It is 29,120 grams of weed. A very heavy user can go through maybe 14 grams a day and that is a LOT to use in a day. Even at that level, 65 lbs of weed is a five and a half year supply of weed. It is over $400,000 worth of cannabis at retail price and would be about a 280 year supply of weed for a casual user. If a windfall like this were to be delivered to my door, I'd report the package stolen, hustle the weed out of my house in vacuum sealed bags and into a safe location, change my name to Nancy Botwin, and start a new career. And I'd have to personally test for quality just to ensure that I'm not risking jail for schwag.
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Post by bc2ca on Oct 23, 2017 17:20:53 GMT
Sixty-five pounds of weed is a LOT of weed. It is 29,120 grams of weed. A very heavy user can go through maybe 14 grams a day and that is a LOT to use in a day. Even at that level, 65 lbs of weed is a five and a half year supply of weed. It is over $400,000 worth of cannabis at retail price and would be about a 280 year supply of weed for a casual user. If a windfall like this were to be delivered to my door, I'd report the package stolen, hustle the weed out of my house in vacuum sealed bags and into a safe location, change my name to Nancy Botwin, and start a new career. And I'd have to personally test for quality just to ensure that I'm not risking jail for schwag. Thanks for doing the math. Sounds like someone in the supply chain is in trouble.
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Post by compwalla on Oct 23, 2017 17:42:48 GMT
Thanks for doing the math. You're welcome. I'm a nerd; it's what I do.
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Post by imsirius on Oct 23, 2017 17:51:12 GMT
Sixty-five pounds of weed is a LOT of weed. It is 29,120 grams of weed. A very heavy user can go through maybe 14 grams a day and that is a LOT to use in a day. Even at that level, 65 lbs of weed is a five and a half year supply of weed. It is over $400,000 worth of cannabis at retail price and would be about a 280 year supply of weed for a casual user. If a windfall like this were to be delivered to my door, I'd report the package stolen, hustle the weed out of my house in vacuum sealed bags and into a safe location, change my name to Nancy Botwin, and start a new career. And I'd have to personally test for quality just to ensure that I'm not risking jail for schwag. Lol! You crack me up! 🤣
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Post by MichyM on Oct 23, 2017 17:54:29 GMT
Sixty-five pounds of weed is a LOT of weed. It is 29,120 grams of weed. A very heavy user can go through maybe 14 grams a day and that is a LOT to use in a day. Even at that level, 65 lbs of weed is a five and a half year supply of weed. It is over $400,000 worth of cannabis at retail price and would be about a 280 year supply of weed for a casual user. If a windfall like this were to be delivered to my door, I'd report the package stolen, hustle the weed out of my house in vacuum sealed bags and into a safe location, change my name to Nancy Botwin, and start a new career. And I'd have to personally test for quality just to ensure that I'm not risking jail for schwag. I'll preface this by saying that I live in WA state where weed is legal. 14 grams in a day?!? A half ounce....one person?!? Holy hell that is a lot of weed. I mean a LOT. Either they're smoking really bad weed 24/7 or they have a very very very ridiculously high tolerance (and are still toking pretty much 24/7).
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Post by compwalla on Oct 23, 2017 17:56:57 GMT
Sixty-five pounds of weed is a LOT of weed. It is 29,120 grams of weed. A very heavy user can go through maybe 14 grams a day and that is a LOT to use in a day. Even at that level, 65 lbs of weed is a five and a half year supply of weed. It is over $400,000 worth of cannabis at retail price and would be about a 280 year supply of weed for a casual user. If a windfall like this were to be delivered to my door, I'd report the package stolen, hustle the weed out of my house in vacuum sealed bags and into a safe location, change my name to Nancy Botwin, and start a new career. And I'd have to personally test for quality just to ensure that I'm not risking jail for schwag. I'll preface this by saying that I live in WA state where weed is legal. 14 grams in a day?!? A half ounce....one person?!? Holy hell that is a lot of weed. I mean a LOT. Either they're smoking really bad weed 24/7 or they have a very very very ridiculously high tolerance (and are still toking pretty much 24/7). Yes, indeed. 14 grams a day is an insanely high amount of daily intake. But there are ents who use that much a day and that's why I picked that amount to illustrate that even the heaviest of users would end up with a many-year supply if they happened upon 65 lbs of it.
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Post by beachbum on Oct 23, 2017 18:03:45 GMT
Obviously I'm ordering the wrong stuff. Damn.
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Post by lesley on Oct 23, 2017 18:08:02 GMT
That would have solved the problem of what to get my DS for Christmas! And his birthday. And Valentine's Day. I would be the most popular mum ever.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Oct 23, 2017 18:25:10 GMT
Wow just wow but I would have been afraid to. Also since so much weed is laced with stuff who knows if this was or not. I have never smoked weed so I would have done the same thing and then been afraid someone would come looking for it.
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Post by KelleeM on Oct 23, 2017 18:28:44 GMT
So, hypothetically speaking, if one were to vacuum seal 65 pounds of pot in say 8 oz packages, would the quality be the same in 5 or 6 years as it is now? Just curious. 😊
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Post by mygigiscraps on Oct 23, 2017 18:37:00 GMT
I am wondering how long it took after the story hit the news for Amazon to sell out of 27 gallon storage containers.
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Post by danor98 on Oct 23, 2017 18:39:56 GMT
Now thats what I call Prime!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 18:48:54 GMT
Sixty-five pounds of weed is a LOT of weed. It is 29,120 grams of weed. A very heavy user can go through maybe 14 grams a day and that is a LOT to use in a day. Even at that level, 65 lbs of weed is a five and a half year supply of weed. It is over $400,000 worth of cannabis at retail price and would be about a 280 year supply of weed for a casual user. If a windfall like this were to be delivered to my door, I'd report the package stolen, hustle the weed out of my house in vacuum sealed bags and into a safe location, change my name to Nancy Botwin, and start a new career. And I'd have to personally test for quality just to ensure that I'm not risking jail for schwag.
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Post by 16joy on Oct 23, 2017 18:52:18 GMT
Compwalla is a prime example of why it's important to pay attention in math class. If kids have this kind of word problem, we would have more kids enjoying math.
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Post by compwalla on Oct 23, 2017 19:03:51 GMT
Wow just wow but I would have been afraid to. Also since so much weed is laced with stuff who knows if this was or not. I have never smoked weed so I would have done the same thing and then been afraid someone would come looking for it. I am curious why you believe "so much weed is laced with stuff?" It is extremely rare to have weed laced with anything since almost anything you'd lace weed with is many times more expensive than just weed. It makes no economic sense. And, if weed *is* laced with anything, it is not credible that it would be done at the wholesale level on 65 lbs of product. You can get buds that have been soaked in resin or coated with kief but this makes the bud extremely expensive and it's a service or feature or whatever that your budtender or hookup would advertise and disclose - even brag about - since they would be upcharging you dearly for this enhanced potency. I would be more worried about trace pesticide/fungicide on a 65 lbs bundle of weed long before I ever worried it was laced with something that was stronger or more dangerous than the weed itself. That's simply not a thing.
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Post by MichyM on Oct 23, 2017 19:36:09 GMT
I'll preface this by saying that I live in WA state where weed is legal. 14 grams in a day?!? A half ounce....one person?!? Holy hell that is a lot of weed. I mean a LOT. Either they're smoking really bad weed 24/7 or they have a very very very ridiculously high tolerance (and are still toking pretty much 24/7). Yes, indeed. 14 grams a day is an insanely high amount of daily intake. But there are ents who use that much a day and that's why I picked that amount to illustrate that even the heaviest of users would end up with a many-year supply if they happened upon 65 lbs of it. Mind boggled. Truly. I cannot imagine someone smoking that much weed in a day. Or even a month. 😲 Even if it's needed for medical reasons. Yikes!
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Post by femalebusiness on Oct 23, 2017 20:39:37 GMT
I would definitely have to try it, you know, to see if it is pot. I may have to smoke quite a bit to make sure that it isn’t oregano.
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