After the board washed, authorities found 20 pounds of meth inside.
Smugglers lost $100,000 worth of meth on a beach in Tijuana. In a new age version of old-time surfing smuggling tactics, they hollowed out a surfboard, crammed a shitload of drugs inside, and pointed their drugs towards the United States.
Surfing and drug smuggling have gone hand-in-hand for a long time. There are a million stories about surfers funding their lifestyles by moving their heroin-stuffed rectums to wave-rich countries and rumors of surf company giants originally funded by boats stuffed with hash. If half the stories are true–which I sincerely hope they are, for the sake of great stories–then surfing has a very checkered and piratey past.
The surfboard that washed up in Tijuana was unique, to say the least. It had been hollowed out and converted into a kind of battery-powered floating submarine, running on eight batteries. Although it had been tightly wrapped in plastic, water, like it is prone to doing, seeped into the board. The batteries failed, and the board, along with its high-strung, teeth-grinding cargo, washed up just short of the border.
A few days ago, the Tijuana Ministry of Public Security posted photos of the drug-laden cargo to facebook. The board carried 20 pounds of meth, which according to the Ministry, is worth around $100,000. Here’s what it looked like when authorities found it:
Here’s the board when it washed up. What treasure lie within?
And when they opened it up…
That is a lot of meth.
It was powered by 8 batteries… which don’t like water:
Water and electricity don’t mix.
The meth was removed from the board, and someone with poor plastic wrapping skills lost $100,000 worth of meth.
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