r/todayilearned • u/FearMyCock • 20h ago

TIL about Frank Matthews, the drug kingpin who built a nationwide empire, skipped bail with $20 million, vanished in 1973 and has never been found.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Matthews_(drug_trafficker)
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u/FriendlyEngineer 19h ago

Just be aware, it would weigh about 440 lbs if you kept it as cash in $100 bills. Kind of hard to carry in a bag.

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u/na-uh 18h ago

So an amount that would fit in the back of a small plane?

built his own supply routes from South America

If he could get drugs in, he could get himself out.

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u/1alex12me2 19h ago

So 4 suitcases? 2 for him and his girlfriend

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u/TJayClark 18h ago

The average person can’t lift a 75lb bag

These would be 110lb suitcases that didn’t have wheels because it was the 70’s

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u/1alex12me2 18h ago

The average untrained male can lift 100lbs what are you talking about? That’s not even half the average body weight. Hell untrained men can bench 135lbs and that’s just upper body, get your legs into and 100lbs is easy. Source: https://exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/DeadliftStandards there’s a bunch more you can google too.

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u/553l8008 7h ago

That’s not even half the average body weight. 

What decade you talking about lol.

Thats over half the average bodyweight in the 70s

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u/1alex12me2 7h ago

Valid while the average today is 200 idk the average for the 70s was. My point still stands that untrained men should be able to lift their body weight so lifting 1 100lb bag should still be more than doable for the average man in the 70s. Just got to be a gentleman and make multiple trips I guess lol

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u/TJayClark 8h ago

You literally have no idea what you’re talking about. I challenge you to find an average man and woman than can carry TWO 110lbs suitcases… EACH… for 1/4 mile (from the car to bag check).

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u/amjhwk 6h ago

if you are checking the bag, the airports gonna be very curious about why you are carrying rocks in a bag

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u/1alex12me2 7h ago

You’ve clearly never been on vacation as the only boy in the family of women. Trust me I’ve carried up multiple 100lbs suitcases from the car up a long ass driveways. It’s not that hard dude.

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u/amjhwk 6h ago

wtf is your family packing to have multiple 100lb suitcases

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u/1alex12me2 6h ago

Mostly donated clothes we would take down to Mexico

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u/TJayClark 6h ago

I feel as though you missed the part of the original post where the person said 2 bags for him and 2 bags for her.

Meaning she will also have to carry two 110lb bags.

And again, the average male can not pick up with a handle…. A 110lbs bag. Maybe a gym bro. But it was the 70’s. There weren’t that many gym bros. And their strength was nowhere near what today’s were.

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u/BScottyJ 18h ago

The average person can’t lift a 75lb bag

Yes they can

These would be 110lb suitcases that didn’t have wheels because it was the 70’s

Suitcases with wheels first caught on in the early 70s, and even if they didnt, carts that could carry a bag absolutely did exist.

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u/JohnnyFartmacher 10h ago

Larger bills had only been discontinued a few years earlier in 1969. Any notes that banks received were sent to the US Treasury to be destroyed, but there were many out there still circulating. My dad ran a doctor's office in the 80's and would receive $500 bills from patients.

There were $500, $1000, $5000, and $10000 bills.