When 2000lbs of Cocaine Washed Up in a Small Town

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  • @RareEarthSeries
    @RareEarthSeries  2 ปีที่แล้ว +165

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    • @takipsizad
      @takipsizad 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      just like cocaine

    • @alarsonious2071
      @alarsonious2071 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Dude. This is the best channel on TH-cam.

    • @GuntherRommel
      @GuntherRommel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh yeah. This is the content I'm supporting. Never once regretted that receipt.

    • @pacoperez1012
      @pacoperez1012 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice video, although you sound like you wish you were there.

    • @rockets4kids
      @rockets4kids 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      When the first 1000 hits are free...

  • @asphene4754
    @asphene4754 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1098

    Portuguese here. Some "fun" stories from the time period:
    -It is said that there was so much coke that a few youths made the lines of their football field with it without knowing what it was.(real)
    -Some where using it as flour on their food.(debated)
    -Others were selling it in small plastic cups.(real)
    -Antonio was found in a town called "Achadinha" which means "found" in portuguese.(real)

    • @raebsen
      @raebsen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I guess their first thought wasn't to put in up their nose lol

    • @vysharra
      @vysharra 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      There is zero chance you would cook with cocaine more than once. High grade coke is a _powerful anesthetic_ , it would make your whole mouth and face numb, so you wouldn’t be able to swallow or chew without making a huge mess (or injuring yourself). You also would taint the food with incredibly bitter compounds.

    • @LoneWanderer905
      @LoneWanderer905 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      This is one of those rare situations where Portugal feels like Brazil.

    • @DAndyLord
      @DAndyLord 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I'm super opposed to decrim. Legalize or criminalize, half measures only make things worse.
      In my ideal world drugs would be legal, dispensed by a pharmacist and every dose (like beer) would be the same as the last.
      Decrim reduces the risk for dealers, but does not make the supply safer.

    • @tommapar
      @tommapar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@DAndyLord Completely agreed. Drugs being illegal only gives a reason to cartels and other criminal organizations form around the whole in that particular market. Besides, making it legal would make its effects easier to study and the warnings signs to curios people even clearer.
      Truth is, drugs have been a part of society since time immemorial.
      The Romans, and probably the Greeks by extension, drank wine spiked with cannabis, opium, even small amounts of nightshade and who knows what else. And they somehow made one of the most advanced, organized, and biggest societies of their time.
      Bill Hicks the comedian jokes about the possibility of a chimp evolving laughter out of eating a shroom off of a cow's feces. Stephen Hawking talked about the moment where speech materialized, and it's a fun notion to entertain. I mean, if a chimp started to make weird never before heard sounds it was either looking to communicate something terribly important, it was probably depredators/some amazing food/how to make a tool maybe or it was just straight up tripping balls haha!
      Whilst I don't think that happened, I find the possibility hilarious. But besides all that, I find important to take a mature approach to the issue of drugs. Prohibition was once a thing in the US and it spawned guys like Al Capone, I think we should look to history to see that it doesn't repeat itself. Teach people properly about this stuff and they will surely at least approach the subject in a more informed manner.

  • @ZeSnark
    @ZeSnark 2 ปีที่แล้ว +471

    These sorts of bizzarro stories are the reason I will keep supporting this channel.

    • @DanHaiduc
      @DanHaiduc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am new here. Feels like the Twilight Zone.

    • @jackpoggioreale6264
      @jackpoggioreale6264 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s the voice and tone for me

    • @Alexander-cg1ey
      @Alexander-cg1ey 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Because this channel tells the story of humanity struggling with any kind of power structure. Not just communism or capitalism, but all human struggle.

    • @TransRoofKorean
      @TransRoofKorean 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wonder if OP is related to ZeFrank

    • @louism9790
      @louism9790 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The sorts of buzzard are stories are the reason i check out anything that could possibly be a brick of coke floating

  • @808v1
    @808v1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Appreciate the content flowing again!

  • @davegibiko8533
    @davegibiko8533 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This type of incident is usually common on the south west of the Philippines near surigao and Davao regions. Fishermen alwasy find these things.

  • @roidkaro
    @roidkaro 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Congrats Kata on the gold medal!

  • @ikeswp4959
    @ikeswp4959 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They wash up on the beach all the time here in Florida we call that white lobster 🇺🇸

  • @yassinmotii1547
    @yassinmotii1547 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bruh I'm watching this and thinking why can't I ever find a bird in the sand

  • @garretlanglois6645
    @garretlanglois6645 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing video 👌

  • @MrRickjitsu
    @MrRickjitsu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ...just ... wow.

  • @kalrandom7387
    @kalrandom7387 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Back in the mid 80s a small engine plane come across this country area I live in with the DEA plane right and he was steadily chucking duffel bags full out the plane, of course the DEA claim they got it all but I know they didn't. Everybody had cocaine couldn't find a joint to save your life but you could find cocaine, yeah I tried a little bit of it and then once it was all gone I tried it again never touched it since. Once you have real there's no substitution. It's been over 30 years

  • @oluwaseunajia
    @oluwaseunajia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1627

    By the way, Portugal decriminalized the use, purchase, and possession of all narcotic in 2000, taking a stance that was more concerned with public health than with issues of public order. In Portugal, drug-use is a medical issue and not a crime so there's safe drug use, counseling and free treatment. It's been mostly a success story as such it's puzzling why more countries aren't adopting this model.

    • @vappyreon1176
      @vappyreon1176 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Racism is a big factor tbh

    • @JermStone
      @JermStone 2 ปีที่แล้ว +276

      Certain people profit off of the criminalization of drugs through use of private prisons. It's that simple.

    • @shifty1927
      @shifty1927 2 ปีที่แล้ว +185

      Its not puzzling... the countries that don't take that approach would rather profit from the suffering of their citizens than to spend some to help.

    • @josiahhockenberry9846
      @josiahhockenberry9846 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      ​@@shifty1927 I was just about to say that. It always boils down to money.

    • @louiscypher4186
      @louiscypher4186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      Because we're not Portugese. In my country there are areas where liquor is heavily restricted due to the devastating effects it had on some ethnic groups. To many Portugese and other europeans this no doubt comes across as barbaric and discriminatory.
      But they were not here when the booze flowed freely, they didn't see the kids in hospitals vomiting up their stomach lining, 30 year olds with failing livers, they didn't see the beating, the rapes and everything else.
      So we introduced frameworks, we restricted sales, we restricted consumption, even in some places possession and not just fines but prison sentences for violators, even in the big cities where liquor is liberalised and embraced our laws on public drunkenness, drink driving and supplying to minors are much much harsher then european countries.
      All of this worked, we saw massive reductions in consumption and alcoholism and all the negative things that come with it. We tried your European way with alcohol and it was a disaster and considering the most vocal advocates of the portugese model for drugs are drug users themselves i see no reason to view it any differently then a Spanish, French or Englishmen offering a drink.

  • @beeclair480
    @beeclair480 2 ปีที่แล้ว +340

    When I was in uni I had a teacher tell this story. Aparently he was there for work and people there had more cocaine than what they knew what to do with. Acording to him, when you ordered a coffee they have you a side of cocaine with it for free.
    Anywho, I'm glad you told this story. While in uni I accidentally told this story to a friend of mine... Well she got massively insulted because apparently she was specifically from Rabo de Peixe.. Let's just say it got awekard real fast... turns out... I was right! and my teacher was right!! and there is no way she wouldn't have known it... XDD

    • @dearhunter7206
      @dearhunter7206 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      How can she get insulted by something that is true??

    • @scottcantdance804
      @scottcantdance804 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Yes hello, police? I need to report that it looks like around 1900 lbs of cocaine have washed up... Sorry, did I say 1900? I meant 1800 lbs. You should come pick up this 1700 lbs of coke before bad guys come looking for their missing 1600 lbs...

    • @marceloantunes998
      @marceloantunes998 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@dearhunter7206 Have you never interected with a black person?

    • @timcross2510
      @timcross2510 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@scottcantdance804 , that is a great bit! I'm going to steal it...

    • @pipeline8554
      @pipeline8554 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@marceloantunes998 bahahahaha

  • @AsiniusNaso
    @AsiniusNaso 2 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    This sounds like a morality tale you’d see on the Twilight Zone. What a tragic story of innocence lost.

    • @sparklesparklesparkle6318
      @sparklesparklesparkle6318 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      yeah watching drugs ruin lives and families is a real bummer. I've seen it over and over again. I'm glad I'm not about that life.

    • @toomanydonuts
      @toomanydonuts ปีที่แล้ว

      Pure evil stuff cocaine can be. Too bad it is so addictive and consequential because it does have a good buzz.

  • @VitorHugo-rj6uf
    @VitorHugo-rj6uf ปีที่แล้ว +63

    For those wondering, Netflix just released a series about this case.

    • @ivoferreira7711
      @ivoferreira7711 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      In english it is called turn of the tide if anyone is wondering 👍

    • @mulsenhfk
      @mulsenhfk ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Rabo de peixe

  • @wingshad0w00982
    @wingshad0w00982 2 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    Fun fact, while not as extreme, something like this has happened before (likely multiple times to be fair). Where I grew up a rum-runner ran aground in the 20’s one winter. The crew ‘vanished’ and everyone in town had at least one bottle.

    • @fastinradfordable
      @fastinradfordable 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      One bottle of booze gets you exactly nowhere

    • @chrisb.7787
      @chrisb.7787 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@fastinradfordable my car gets around 34mpg so I could get 10miles or so If it was high enough proof.

    • @yoymate6316
      @yoymate6316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yeah, brazil had their own version of it in the 1980s with the wreck of solana star, a panamanian boat carrying multiple thousands of cans of premium quality weed. for quite some time after that, “da lata” (lit. from the can) became slang for “good” or “cool”

    • @herzogsbuick
      @herzogsbuick ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounds like Bootlegger's Cove in Anchorage!

  • @duh_tch
    @duh_tch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    One of the things I love most about Rare Earth is how erratic the upload schedule is. Well go three months of radio silence, then a trip gets filming and bam, 5 videos in short order. But there’s no channel covering topics as simple and human, so the second I see a new upload I drop everything to watch it. Cheers on the awesome work Evan

    • @ender7278
      @ender7278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's great cuz that way every video feels like a welcome surprise. It's not a weekly service, it's a gift.

  • @omeyehead7436
    @omeyehead7436 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Really glad to see the regular posts again. Always great content

  • @tfcooks
    @tfcooks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    This reminds me of the plane full of weed that crashed in the mountains above Yosemite. Apparently the park workers had a great summer that year. Also the story of a barge full of hash that half sank in the Sacramento delta and many of the locals used it to buy their houses and finance new local business around the area. I even used to get some of that hash.

    • @newperve
      @newperve 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Didn't they go through the trail mix though.

    • @LadyAnuB
      @LadyAnuB 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I never heard about this hash barge. Do you remember the year? It was 1985 when my family houseboated on the Delta.

    • @tfcooks
      @tfcooks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@LadyAnuB Hi. I think it got stranded in the late 70s. I was getting it in the early/mid 80s but by then it was getting old and crumbly and had some mold in some if it. But it still worked.

    • @LadyAnuB
      @LadyAnuB 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tfcooks So it grounded when I was a kid

    • @westho7314
      @westho7314 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember that plane crash in Yosemite having lived in the area back then. Knew a few rock climbers that scaled the walls to get rich quick, or so they thought. Most the bundles were completely saturated by plane's fuel making it useless. Dumbasses smoked it anyway was street bunk quality likely laced with the chemical called paraquat/

  • @_41V4R0
    @_41V4R0 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Turn of the tide. Is a new netflix series based on that facts

  • @filipetavares1902
    @filipetavares1902 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    There is a new netflix show that uses this event as the main plot.
    "Turn the Tide", it´s the second Portuguese netflix show!

  • @goncaloloureiro7958
    @goncaloloureiro7958 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Netflix now has a new portuguese tv show about this story, called "Rabo de peixe" or "Turn of the tide"

  • @briangarrow448
    @briangarrow448 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    My father worked on the docks at a large pulp and paper mill complex on the Pacific coast. One day a group of Coast Guard, DEA and local police showed up to the docks and wanted access. Of course the bosses and the gang members were helpful. (Remember that on west coast docks, groups of longshoremen are called gangs.)
    The agents and Coasties thoroughly searched and inspected the entire area. They didn’t find anything, so they left empty handed.
    When my father got home after work, he joked that he wasn’t going to be able to retire early. He said his secondary income program had just imploded. We kids, all of us teens, busted out laughing. We all knew my dad was as straight line and square as a marine corps drill sergeant. We spent days afterwards joking about our lost chances to own new cars, take fancy vacations and light cigars with 100$ bills.

    • @LadyAnuB
      @LadyAnuB 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This would've made for an interesting story amongst the summers spent in Reedsport, OR with my grandmother's sister and her husband fishing and going around the dunes along the coast.

  • @dionthorn
    @dionthorn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I'm so glad your back bro. I always look forward to the next video.

  • @PoCrl
    @PoCrl ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "Eu não vou chorar... Esta vida... Não era para mim... Eu não vou chorar"

  • @paulozhan
    @paulozhan ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Who's here after Netflix made a show about this?

  • @rexmann1984
    @rexmann1984 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I wouldn't tell a soul.

    • @fishsmell3939
      @fishsmell3939 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I would retire

    • @k20nutz
      @k20nutz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Unless you used it, then you'd get paranoid and or not shut up about it.

    • @rexmann1984
      @rexmann1984 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@fishsmell3939 I can't believe people actually turned it in. WTF we're they thinking.

    • @rexmann1984
      @rexmann1984 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I would turn over a suitcase of money. Or try to find the owner. But coke? I ain't saying shit to nobody but the dude I'm selling it to.

    • @fishsmell3939
      @fishsmell3939 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rexmann1984 lol

  • @marcoruizcalva9704
    @marcoruizcalva9704 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    as long as you post videos im going to watch them

    • @oluwaseunajia
      @oluwaseunajia 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I like before watching 😁

  • @michaelcherry8952
    @michaelcherry8952 2 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    It drives me crazy how this one incident changed the whole island so negatively. The falling dominoes went from a yacht in trouble to the Cosa Nostra funneling drugs through an area that they never even considered before. I swear, every time I think there's hope for the human race, we end up running of a cliff again. It's very discouraging, but it's important that we know these things. Hopefully, at some point, we will learn from these mistakes. I'm not holding my breath but I'm not giving up either.
    P.S. Congratulations Kata! Gold in the triathlon is an amazing achievement. You can't hear me all the way from Alberta, but believe me I'm clapping very hard. Well Done You!😄

    • @DarkHarlequin
      @DarkHarlequin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The very fact that this happened so quickly on such a little impulse shows though that the system was already in place. Demand for drugs, poverty, unhappiness of the future users, naivitee towards drugs were already there. All that was missing was the link to a suply.
      That's why the 'war on drugs' doesn't really work. You're fighting the symptom not the disease. As long as demand for drugs exists there will be a market and as long as the economic structures to fuel the system exists removing supliers is just swapping parts. And the brutal truth of it all is that yes we find the victims and fallout of drugs horrible but we're not actually willing to chip away at the whole system we live in just to prevent it. Generally we prefer to just treat the symptoms a bit and pat ourselves on the back simply cause its much easier.

    • @kgoblin5084
      @kgoblin5084 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DarkHarlequin "Demand for drugs, poverty, unhappiness of the future users, naivitee towards drugs were already there. " I actually don't fully buy the bit about naiveté towards drugs... if the population was really naïve then I don't think we would have the rapid onset of use, especially with a drug which is a white powder ingested by snorting or injection. People without prior exposure, regardless of ethics, would not have known what to do with it.

    • @MolloyPolloy
      @MolloyPolloy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cocaine has never positively impacted anyone's life. It's an absolute bastard of a drug. Everything it touches turns to shit.

    • @scotttemple7844
      @scotttemple7844 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My 10-year-old son once asked me.
      Dad, why is cocaine illegal ?
      I said..
      Because it's destroys people's lives.
      I hope he took that to ❤️

    • @gordusmaximus4990
      @gordusmaximus4990 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      To this day, the consequences are felt, there are people still around that are still recovering from this (some never did), it destroyed families, and today, despite already existing before this, drug use, skyrocked it and the island has problems with now sythatic drugs, because its cheaper.

  • @NarffetWerlz
    @NarffetWerlz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    And yet, for a brief moment, the town was _very_ productive and exuberant, though quick and sudden to irritate.

  • @scpatl4now
    @scpatl4now 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I always look forward to the graphic at the end. Kata, I clap for you! That is quite the accomplishment!

  • @tjzambonischwartz
    @tjzambonischwartz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If a ton of weed washed up on my shore I'd keep it all for myself. You can keep the coke.

    • @ThisIsATireFire
      @ThisIsATireFire 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Naw, I'd keep a couple pounds and figure out how to sell the rest. You ever had 2 year old weed? Ugh. I do not recommend. But I'd have enough cash to keep buying myself fresh bud every few months.

  • @fernandoalves689
    @fernandoalves689 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    After 5 years watching your videos, it's amazing to see you in my country. Welcome to Portugal! There is a lot of amazing stories here to tell to the world.

  • @tiggercampbell6198
    @tiggercampbell6198 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    thats why we call it more..when us drug addicts are craving " more" and feeling sick and anxious..its because our body thinks it will die without more..that was one of those ah hah moment for me..still struggling to stay clean..but every day that I can go without it is heaven sent ..just my belief..

  • @shmackedmuffins7948
    @shmackedmuffins7948 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I though he was going to say producrivity increased 1000% in town that year.

  • @oluwaseunajia
    @oluwaseunajia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Love Azores. It's one of my best places in the world. Visited Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel - Furnas (Poca Da Dona Beija), Lagoa de Fogo and more. Outstanding splendor, it was the best time of my life.

    • @RareEarthSeries
      @RareEarthSeries  2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm happy to hear you have such positive memories my man!

  • @GrimmDelightsDice
    @GrimmDelightsDice 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It is a kind day when Answer In Progress and Rare Earth both post after rewatching their entire backlogs

  • @marklindsey4668
    @marklindsey4668 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Such an amazing tale of a small fishing village. I'm Born and raised on an island with many small fishing villages, that have curious stories to tell. This story is heavy. I met another fisherman from North Carolina, who told of he and his friends fishing for " Square Grouper" in the early 70's. Giant bales of marijuana washed overboard from boats from Mexico and SA.

    • @ricardopaulino4204
      @ricardopaulino4204 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Estas a falar de mais

    • @trenthink
      @trenthink 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ricardopaulino4204 langosta blanco…

  • @watson9897
    @watson9897 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I live in North Carolina, about 15 years ago My buddy found 3 kilos on the beach. It was an amazing summer.

    • @J.D.Shelnutt
      @J.D.Shelnutt 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      bs

    • @jakedelizioso1434
      @jakedelizioso1434 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It would’ve lasted several summers

  • @TheTomBevis
    @TheTomBevis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I had to comment about the last line of the closing screen. I had thought, several times during the video, that you were trying to teach people how to think for themselves. Thank you!

  • @jhfdhgvnbjm75
    @jhfdhgvnbjm75 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    sounds like whisky galore, but a lot less fun in the end even than the REAL story of whisky galore :(

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Perhaps 25 years ago, I bought a bottle that's branded "Whiskey Galore!" because its packaging recounts the legend, and the tasting sample was quite good. I recall it came from a selected special cask at an unnamed famous distillery; the owner had aged it past 20, and bottled the whisky at cask strength without caramel colouring. It took me a year to finish it, as I only drank a shot with a friend or relative each month.
      Rare Earth should make a video on this legend, and the legend of the Sinister Hand.

  • @seanknecht4075
    @seanknecht4075 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Damn I wish I was there when that happened🤣🙆

  • @matiasguardaredes
    @matiasguardaredes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Yes! I have been living in the Azores for 3 years and ever since I heard this story I thought that it was the perfect story for your channel. I hope you've enjoyed your stay in these beautiful islands

  • @brettkenyon4679
    @brettkenyon4679 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Well done achieving a gold medal Kata Hadfield! Awesome effort. Great video Evan.

  • @9thEdits
    @9thEdits ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There is now a netflix series about this

  • @shawnhuk
    @shawnhuk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Seriously, I’ve spent the past two week watching all 149 episodes of Rare Earth and I’m dumbfounded by how well the whole series was/is. What an amazing perspective. Some episodes I had to gloss over, some episodes I couldn’t look away. I watched while I worked, I fell asleep watching in bed, some times had them on in the background while I drove. I looked forward to having a spare 9-12 minutes to watch an episode… now that I’m at the end, and I see how infrequently episodes come out now, I’m truly lost. Now what? How do I just go on watching … normal TH-cam… 😩

  • @austinpatch7585
    @austinpatch7585 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Freaking great episode Evan!!! Props to Bruno you get to meet the coolest people on your travels Evan, great work

  • @Crowborn
    @Crowborn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    There's a very similar story in south Brazil near Ilha do Mel (Honey Island) where a ship called the Slow Burning jettisoned hundreds of metal cans all over the shore to try and avoid an imminent search. Its been decades but I was surprised to see wall murals with the SB painted on here and there! Definitely a local legend worth investigating more

  • @__alves_
    @__alves_ ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think this is getting recommended because of the new Netflix serie talking exactly about this

  • @davidottley2739
    @davidottley2739 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    👏 -for Kata Hadfield.
    Wild story from the mouth of a brilliant storyteller. Thanks, Evan.

  • @808v1
    @808v1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Bruno!

  • @Ewr42
    @Ewr42 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    There's a similar story about Canned Weed washing up ashore in Brazil
    The story became known as Verão da Lata, or "summer of the can"

  • @grmpEqweer
    @grmpEqweer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Time to pay off your debts, right?

  • @RenayVildhjarta
    @RenayVildhjarta 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    💝CONGRATULATIONS KATA🏃‍♀️🏅👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
    ✌🏽❤🙏

  • @anthonycox3493
    @anthonycox3493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow i remember when kilos washed up on a beach in Norfolk England. A dog walker clocked it .

  • @Nono-hk3is
    @Nono-hk3is 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Congratulations Kata!🥇

  • @marcouellette4671
    @marcouellette4671 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I turn 50 this year and have lost dozens of friends and family to drugs. I hate it.

  • @AwesometownUSA
    @AwesometownUSA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    why can’t this ever happen to MY town?? great now I’m pissed

  • @CaravelClerihew
    @CaravelClerihew 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Anyone who likes this story should check out the The Last Voyage of the Pong Su, a podcast on the true story about how a North Korean ship tried to smuggle heroin into a small Australian seaside town.

  • @BillyT886
    @BillyT886 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    *Colombian Coke coming from Venezuela

  • @placasowuicho967
    @placasowuicho967 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    All I can say is, we would like to thanks drugs for winning the war on drugs.

  • @americansupervillain4595
    @americansupervillain4595 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The beach where I live needed cleaned up and the local Girl Scotts volunteered, they found several kilos of cocaine. No crap!

  • @MrsLirs
    @MrsLirs ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Update: there is now a series called rabo de peixe based on this occasion xD

  • @Nobe_Oddy
    @Nobe_Oddy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    have ALWAYS wanted to visit the Azores.... but being that I'm only 5 years clean I might end up in a bad situation all over again.... so I think addiction would stop me from going there now... that and a HUGE LACK OF MONEY lol
    THIS WAS EXCELLENT!!! I am SOOOO GLAD I found your channel! You sure do put some class into TH-cam.
    THANK YOU! :D

    • @andrewtheanimenerd
      @andrewtheanimenerd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Congrats on getting clean

    • @cyrustakem7993
      @cyrustakem7993 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think for visiting should be fine, açores is beautiful, you probably won't even be thinking of that while contemplating nature.

  • @S.V.TeFiti
    @S.V.TeFiti 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    same story happen to small atoll in South pacific... locals buried some in the sand before coast guard and then 2 weeks later the whole island of 600 turned to the hood, fights, thefts, and overdoses..

  • @djones6211
    @djones6211 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Congrats Kata! 👏

  • @GuntherRommel
    @GuntherRommel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Evan, Kata, this was a lovely episode. Thank you for making it.

  • @dontquestionjustbelieve5757
    @dontquestionjustbelieve5757 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Your videos are always such a joy to watch, thank you!

  • @alanburns3194
    @alanburns3194 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m Scottish & we have whisky galore when pretty much similar thing happened, they even made a movie. Go look up Scotland drink & drug statistics you maybe surprised

  • @CybershamanX
    @CybershamanX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Congratulations, Kata! 🎉😎🤘🎊🎆🌈🎇☮️❤️😃🥇

  • @PaulTheadra
    @PaulTheadra 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I need a bump like I need a haircut, and I haven't had a haircut in 6 months 😏

  • @pleasejustletmebeanonymous6510
    @pleasejustletmebeanonymous6510 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "The truest wisdom is never found in the binge but on the linoleum floor of the purge."
    A bit dark, but honestly a pretty great quote. 😂

  • @mullac1992
    @mullac1992 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This story is both very funny and very sad

  • @bettyswallocks6411
    @bettyswallocks6411 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In 1941, the SS Politician ran aground on the coast of the Hebridean Island of Eriskay, Scotland, with a cargo of 24,000 bottles of malt whiskey. Much of it was illegally salvaged by islanders and never recovered by the authorities. Bottles made their way across most of the Hebrides and the records of Eriskay suggest that no agricultural production for the following year.
    The event was commemorated in the 1949 movie ‘Whiskey Galore’.

  • @linmonash1244
    @linmonash1244 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Important story >>>
    Addiction studies tell us - the addictive potential is huge. Forces the brain to produce up to 25 times the 'ecstatic neuro chemicals' than would normally be triggered by 'the single best ever experience of your life.' = I want MORE.
    Especially if someone is suffering from: chronic mild anxiety or a low mood, or an actual depressive illness. Particularly dangerous if there is a history of: Bipolar Disorder, Depression or a Psychotic illness , such as Schizophrenia, in the family. Pre-existing vulnerability can trigger being tipped into a life long psychiatric illness - for some even on just one use.
    The problem is the brain then - in an attempt to rebalance this huge deficit - pumps out the downer / depression chemicals. So what you're actually doing is giving yourself a depressive episode - after episode - after episode... You then feel soooo crap, you interpret / misinterpret this mood dump as 'needing another hit'. Pretty soon it's not just hunting for the high - but just 'needing it to 'feel normal'.
    This is the strongest hook - the Psychological addiction. Anyone {most} can go through a detox and work through the physical addiction - but the draw back / relapse trigger is the Psychological 'hook'. You align each hit with the Triple R [ the 'Relief / Relax / Reward ] pathway. This is the internal voice that says: - " I need it to feel x... I deserve it..." " This is my little reward for a tough day" etc. etc. } Many 'take breaks' and turn to using dope or alcohol, telling themselves they've 'beaten it. But these are just other substances- different name - but same game.
    While the Triple R 'Internal Script' s still running - whether consciously or supressed- the pathway to relapse is always calling. There is help. Get the right help - from addiction rehab specialists. You CAN do it - if you commit to it. But only the person themselves can make this decision. 5% is 'The Decision' - 95% is sticking with it - perseverance. It's the old "Horse -Water - Drink'.

  • @eduardoborges506
    @eduardoborges506 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    And now there is an actual series about this xD

  • @AnthologyOfDave
    @AnthologyOfDave 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Damn! Thats enough coke to keep me going for at least a week. lol. MMMmmmmm...I do love me some Colombian Marching Powder. And as avid kayaker of the gulf coast, I keep my eyes peeled for suspicious packages, obviously to turn into the authorities. HA!

  • @benjaminforman8901
    @benjaminforman8901 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I clapped. Better believe I clapped!
    Friggin awesome, Kata!

  • @KyrosX27
    @KyrosX27 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    yeah yeah, cool video as usual but congrats to Kata for winning gold!

  • @amynicholecervantes3065
    @amynicholecervantes3065 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I just stumbled upon your channel. Addicted! Your ability to educate and entertain is amazing. Sending much love from Kansas!

    • @sptm5694
      @sptm5694 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      hehe, addicted....hehheeh

    • @oluwaseunajia
      @oluwaseunajia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Evan's a legend. I play the videos in background while I code. I have visited so many places and learnt a lot through his eyes.

  • @momcat2223
    @momcat2223 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    According to the late, great Robin Williams, "Cocaine is God's way of saying, 'Son, you make too much money!'" and he would know.

  • @blacksideg
    @blacksideg ปีที่แล้ว +2

    and know there is a show in netflix that tells this

  • @richardperritt
    @richardperritt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    👏👏👏👏👏
    🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
    Congrats Kata!
    (Nice editing too. Oh and keep up the good videos, Evan and Francesco)

  • @jenniferk9242
    @jenniferk9242 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    👏👏👏 for Kata!

  • @drakokamikaze8823
    @drakokamikaze8823 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They threw a once in a life time beach party.

  • @oldwave6106
    @oldwave6106 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When 2000 pounds of cocaine washed up in a small town… the town parties! And got wealthy! And many babies were born 9 months later!

  • @ldg508
    @ldg508 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    $100 a gram try $300 a gram that's how much it was going for when this happened unless you knew one of the guys who found some then you would get it for like $50

  • @ColoradoMotoAdventures
    @ColoradoMotoAdventures 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this was put together quite well, just keep them coming and you will be at 10 million subs in no time

  • @DaveBorrell
    @DaveBorrell 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If I told this story; it would be. "When 1900lbs of cocaine washed up in a small town.."

  • @kiathekaf242
    @kiathekaf242 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great video as always man, keep it up. Talking about things nobody talks about

  • @ronowen5747
    @ronowen5747 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I bet they were making more fishing nets than ever before with all that blow

  • @DAndyLord
    @DAndyLord 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A close friend overdosed and I woke up with her body in bed beside me.
    I am extremely opposed to decrim.
    Either legalize or don't.
    Legal drugs (like wine, coffee or tobacco) are precisely dosed.
    A user knows exactly how much they're gonna get.
    A user of illegal drugs has literally no idea how much they're getting.
    Decrim reduces the risk for providers without making it safer for users.

  • @Kiwigd
    @Kiwigd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I sailed there in late 1989.. we left for the US and got beaten up by Hurricane Hugo. The Azores was an interesting place for sure.

  • @fastbudgrower4205
    @fastbudgrower4205 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They're all driving round in BUGGATI CARS on the island now 🤷🏼😆

  • @trickyd499
    @trickyd499 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When 2000lbs of Cocaine Washed Up in a Small Town, there was a wild party :)

  • @paulg3012
    @paulg3012 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In the 90's a boat loaded with cocaine wrecked off the North east coast of Jamaica, the area folks raided it . First the car lot and furniture stores were bought out then house invasions and arson started, it got ugly but some got big off the money.

  • @dindings
    @dindings 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Guy from the Canary islands, just a bit down below from the Azores. We are also on the stopover now too

  • @miserychannel666
    @miserychannel666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When 2000lbs of Cocaine Washed Up in a Small Town ... everyone was happy and had disposable income.

  • @jackd.ripper7613
    @jackd.ripper7613 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In Central America, cocaine washing up on shore is called 'langosta blanca' or 'White Lobster.' You know it happens when a fisherman who has been poor as dirt his entire life all of a sudden has a satellite dish.

  • @deesnoots
    @deesnoots 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It is my dream to find a kilo of cocaine washed up. I think of it just like finding a kilo gold nugget!