Criminal soft drink labs planned by NY gangs

[jberryhill]

Using the same strategy used to produce meth, NYC's criminal gangs are planning to expand their market to include sugary drinks of more than 16 ounces.

By sending several purchasers to a single store to each purchase eight ounce soft drinks, health authorities say that the labs are capable of combining them into drinks that are 16 ounces, and even larger.

Using multiple purchasers, or smurfs, an illicit chemist can disguise what would otherwise be the purchase of these large-drink precursor chemicals. Using ordinary household supplies, and a recipes that can be found on the Internet, one gang member says that from raw material obtained by having the smurfs hit several convenience stores, they can produce dozens of sugary soft drinks in sizes larger than 16 ounces each day. Some users have even been caught with portable soft drink labs they can use right in the store.

[NYC Liberal]

1. Heh.

[jberryhill]

3. I can buy 20 oz cups in Philly, and unload them in NY at 10x profit!

It beats driving a U-Haul full of cigarettes up from North Carolina.

[NYC Liberal]

4. Oh yeah? I'm planning on selling 32oz cups!

[jberryhill]

5. Not in my territory you're not

If one of your boys shows up on my turf with a 32 oz cup, he'll get what's coming.

We don't sell the hard stuff on my turf.

You can have half of Staten Island, but only half. You step one foot over the line and your barber better get a flak jacket, you know what I'm sayin?

Besides, your boys are brining up used change cups from the casinos in Atlantic City. You're killing your customers and giving us respectable folks a bad name.

[DonCoquixote]

8. Damn

Does this mean I can't go up there and sell the Mio syrups I get at Wal-Mart and Aldi up there? What about Red Bull? Jolt?

[hughee99]

9. Up next they'll go after "large soft drink paraphernalia".

Large cups, large lids and long straws watch out.

[jberryhill]

18. It's already happening

[WCGreen]

2. Gotta love free enterprise.

[DonCoquixote]

6. Ok,this is ridiculous

First off,they can buy this at any Wal-Mart..
http://www.sodastream.com/

It makes everything from Red Bullstyles drinks to the zero calorie ones. I considered buying it to save money and bottles.

Second, the syrups that can be used are sold all over the place. The Latino groceries sell them as they are normally used for desserts. Coffe shops sell them as they are used to flavor coffees. This can even spark a local New York soft drink scene, as Italians were doing this for years before Coke. Why settle for Coke when you can have Passion Friut, Coconut,or amaretto?

http://www.torani.com/
http://www.elcolmadito.com/USRefrescosDetail.asp?OrderNumber=1232


The one Illegal thing such drinks would make easier is what hip hop calls "sirrup" where they put cough syrup in soda for the opiate effect.

[loli phabay]

7. i got a feeling the op is satire, if not it should be

[DonCoquixote]

11. sadly, probably not

In Bloomberg's New York,even if he meant the OP as Satire, I am sure, no,let me rephrase,I will bet hard cold cash someone is already on the case. New York is a city where syndicates made millions simply by not paying Taxes on cigarettes and gasoline.

[jberryhill]

16. The users probably find abandoned houses to keep this stuff

[marasinghe]

10. follow the trail of horseshit ....

both Bloomberg & Romney females are into equestrian sports.
both have utter contempt for anyone not in their income bracket.
both adore Middle East Wars, Cops & Wall Street.
both are petty tyrants, getting off on trying to control their constituents lives.
both have the same annoying, whiny voices & monstrous egos.
ergo: Romney & Bloomberg are one & the same person, mindless alter-egos of The Penguin.

[Systematic Chaos]

12. Since this doesn't affect convenience stores, 7-11 and the like can still sell 64 oz. Double Gulps..

...all day long with impunity.

It's the food carts and such who will lose the business of thirstier patrons who will just get their drinks from c-stores, and only the food at the carts.

Indoor restaurants can at least ban outside drinks.

Either way it's a stupid idea, and I say this as someone who only drinks diet cola and unsweetened iced tea from soda fountains.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Bullshit

[davidpdx]

14. Why would anyone buy from these people?

I mean we don't know of someone took a nice long piss in it before bottling it. I drink so much of that stuff putting it back in would be deemed "recycling".

[jberryhill]

15. Sadly, they are "cutting" the soft drinks with toxic materials

Not only is the purity unknown, but soft drink junkies can accidentally overdose when pure stuff hits the streets.

[davsand]

17. You don't want to know what they use to cut "The Dew".

Seriously.



Laura

[davidpdx]

19. Ewwwwwwwwwww

I think you are right. I don't want to know.

[sarcasmo]

20. Soda Bootleggers.