• k0e3@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    What’s “it”? His products? I couldn’t find the number in the wiki.

    Edit: thank you guys! It didn’t occur to be that it’s actually the cash, that’s crazy!

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      In reality it was actual cash money. He couldn’t use banks due to his money being gained through illegal means. He had stacks of money just laying around so much he couldn’t really secure it. Columbia is generally warm and humid so a lot of pests like rats and insects. I heard he was spending around 10k a week just on rubber bands to wrap the money into stacks of a thousands.

      If you don’t know he made most of his money by selling cocaine though.

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                Yeah, sand definitely is much harder than teeth (which in a normal vertebrate are based on apatite, at a Mohs hardness of 5). If it’s abrasion, that explains a bit, although it’s going to be much slower than an actual cutting action. A quick search indicates cement is at Mohs 5-7, so you theoretically could chew through an unusually soft sample.

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                  It absolutely abrades the teeth faster than the cement, but rats are very social creatures. The point is that the Tupperware doesn’t stand a chance against even a single rat.

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      Cash. His business was illegal (naturally), and it was the 1980s, so most of his profits were in literal cash that could not really be safely put in banks in the amounts he was bringing it in. So much of it was physically stored and hidden in various safehouses… and sometimes, vermin and the elements would get at it, destroying or rotting the paper money beyond usability.

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      No, his literal bank notes. Due to the nature of his business he hid his money wherever he could and a percentage of it was lost to environmental factors.