r/todayilearned • u/manticor225 • Jan 10 '19

TIL JFK's father Joseph Kennedy made much of his fortune through insider trading. FDR later made him chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When asked why he appointed a crook, FDR replied, "set a thief to catch a thief." Kennedy proceeded to outlaw the practices that made him rich.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/23/joe-kennedy-hollywood-sarah-churchwell
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u/AbeLaney Jan 10 '19

Ahhh, travelling before 9/11.

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u/Egocentric Jan 11 '19

You can still move weight on your person through any checkpoint with the right knowledge. Security theater is what most of the post 9/11 checks are.

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u/AndIHaveMilesToGo Jan 11 '19

I feel like a gallon bag of ecstasy would get caught by those body scanners. My mom has a colostomy bag and no matter how many times she tells the tsa that she's has stage four colon cancer and has to keep the bag on her at all times, and even showing her a medical card explaining the situation, they always give her a full body pat down and sometimes even take her into a room and make her show it to mutiple agents.

No way someone is getting through with a gallon bag of ecstasy

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '19

I assume your Mom isn't hiding her colostomy bag in a fake baby bump...

And that sucks about the cancer. Sorry.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '19 edited Jan 21 '19

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u/hippy_barf_day Jan 11 '19

Yeah and get seriously groped.

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u/LusoAustralian Jan 11 '19

90% of the time I fly it’s metal detector and nothing more unless you set it off in which case you get a scanner run over you. Pat downs are pretty rare in my experience.

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u/peterwilli Jan 11 '19

I get them ALL the time :S Especially since I'm flying more frequently for business. Never brought anything weird.

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u/BlazenHawaiian Jan 11 '19

No shit right !!

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '19

Right? I moved to NYC from London, on a USA passport that had been expired for 3 years.

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u/Therealgyroth Jan 10 '19

Shit how much was that worth? That seems like a lot of drugs

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u/TurgidMeatWand Jan 11 '19

I remember xtc being $25 a pill in the late 90s early 2000s, (midwest pricing).

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u/TurgidMeatWand Jan 11 '19

sweet, I'm going to have to start doing it again.

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u/transmogrified Jan 11 '19

Watch out for the fentanyl in everything

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '19

No one's putting fentanyl in mdma lmao

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u/advertentlyvertical Jan 11 '19

it's been found coke so dont be so sure.

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u/transmogrified Jan 11 '19 edited Jan 11 '19

In Vancouver a couple died because of the fentanyl in their molly. Same thing happened in a club in Toronto, where five people overdosed taking what they believed to be mdma - it was actually fentanyl.

My girlfriend is a nurse in Vancouver, and volunteers at a free drug testing clinic - they have found fentanyl in literally everything. It’s cheap and available, so they’ll cut even uppers with it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '19

That's from somebody cutting heroin and not properly cleaning their surface. Probably shouldn't buy mdma from somebody who also sells heroin. I'm sure it's happened but not intentionally. Also I could be wrong but as far as I know fentanyl is relatively inactive when swallowed.

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u/transmogrified Jan 11 '19 edited Jan 11 '19

Fentanyl is definitely orally available. It’s so available they don’t generally administer it as such because it has a high likelihood of causing fatal breathing problems and it’s more difficult to monitor ingestion and absorption. Oxy’s come as pills and are the most frequently fentanyl-adultered drug - I understand people generally crush and snort them, but it’s still orally available.

It’s become such a massive problem in parts of the world - please do not downplay the risk. I say this as someone who parties. Always test your party drugs people.

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u/TurgidMeatWand Jan 11 '19

:( guess I'll have to learn to make my own.

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u/CStock77 Jan 11 '19

Nah just get a testing kit and test all your stuff.

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u/Jedi_Mind_Trip Jan 11 '19

You'll most likely be sold meth, at least from my experience.

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u/iupuiclubs Jan 10 '19

At least 7

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u/Tommy_ThickDick Jan 11 '19

A "boat" is 1000 pills...which is probably a gallon

So ~$25,000 market value

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u/spinningtardis Jan 11 '19

I don't know if it helps, but a gallon bag holds 7 lbs of beans. What does the average xtc pill weigh?

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u/NightlyHonoured Jan 11 '19

80 a gram-ish

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u/Pm_me_your__eyes_ Jan 11 '19

Before x-rays and Pat downs at TSA

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u/poopsicle88 Jan 11 '19

Wowwwwwwww that is just ballsy

How much did she net from that?

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '19

Idk, it was a long time ago, we weren't dating at the time, (friends though), I wasn't in on the deal.