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Turns out baby wipes are good for more than just cleaning poop…

History is full of weird and wacky ways that people have attempted (unsuccessfully) to smuggle drugs across borders. From submarines and carrier pigeons to the stomachs of live boa constrictors and the foreskins of penises, it seems no idea is a bad idea at drug dealer HQ.

Now, a record-setting bust has earned itself a place in the history books after $11.8 million worth of cocaine was discovered in a large shipment of baby wipes. Baby wipes, you ask? Yes, baby wipes. 

The drugs were hidden in a tractor-trailer that was making its way across the US-Mexico border with what appeared to be an innocent shipment of baby-related items. However, sniffer dogs soon discovered that the vehicle also contained (a very not-baby friendly) 1,935 packages of cocaine. 

The bust was described as a “colossal, recording setting seizure” by one official who said that it was the “largest cocaine bust in 20 years” in the US. 

"the govt siezes a shipment marked baby wipes that turns out to be a mountain of cocaine"

man, johnson & johnson is REALLY changing their baby powder formula

— mkultralaser (@seandehey) September 1, 2022

Hopefully, the baby wipes didn’t go to waste.