Six boats and 23 people were detained in the record drugs bust, as Mexico faces pressure from the US to do more to stop trafficking.
A drugs haul weighing more than an elephant has been seized in the Mexican navy's biggest ever drugs bust.
The operation saw 23 people arrested off the country's southwest coast.
The haul weighed some 8,400kg - an elephant can weigh up to 6,000kg on average, according to the WWF.
"This represents the largest quantity of drugs seized in a maritime operation, without precedent in the history of the institution," the navy said in a statement.
Ah yes, the widely recognized drugs weight unit, the elephant.
Back when I was into the whole drug scene (or elephanting as we'd call it), I'd normally ask my dealer for 250 nanoelephants of coke and party all night.
Properly speaking, there is no such thing as nanoelephants. That's just an informal unit used by coke dealers for marketing purposes. Elephants are obviously an imperial unit, and "nano-" is an SI/metric prefix. You have to break it down or use fractions. There's 103 golden retrievers per elephant, 14 footballs to the the golden retriever, 9 eight-track cassettes per football, and 525 liberal tears per cassette. You should have been using liberal tears to be scientific.
Israel being awful aside, the Jerusalem Post has a very amusing history of comparing space rocks to random things as they fly by the Earth, illustrating how silly such things are.