A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son

Re:A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son by Bootvis on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @03:45PM (#7940078)

Seems optimistic to me. If you flush in rapid succession the reservoir has to fill again. I guess that a good flush requires, depending on circumstances, 20s of refilling. That would lower the throughput significantly. Also, the suspect has to move the cocaine from hiding to the toilet. Sure, $20K is a lot of money but were not talking Pablo Escobar-like quantities here.

Edit: also clogging, not sure when this happens and not really willing to experiment.

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Re:A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son by erroneousfunk on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @04:28PM (#7946567)

Cocaine is far more water soluble than baking soda. Extremely, extremely water soluble -- about 2 grams of cocaine can dissolve in 1 ml of water (compare to baking soda: About .1 grams per ml of water)

You can't clog a toilet by flushing cocaine.

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Re:A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son by Bootvis on Saturday June 28, 2014 @03:02PM (#7958974)

But you also have to get rid of the packaging. I was imagining dumping a package of cocaine, but that's stupid: at least opening the packaging would help with the clogging by letting the cocaine dissolve. Not sure what the packaging would do with the pipes and whether this only packaging holds up as evidence.

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Re:A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son by dllthomas on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @04:30PM (#7946576)

"You can't clog a toilet by flushing cocaine."

At least, you can't afford to.

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Re:A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son by dllthomas on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @04:51PM (#7940557)

"not really willing to experiment."

That would be an interesting use for all those seized drugs. I wonder if they do this.

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