# Why do drug kingpins seem to choose the dumbest mules to carry their stuff?

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> [@joebuck20](#):
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> Or the suburban mom-looking woman Henry Hill hires in “Goodfellas” to make his drug shipments.

Her main strategy, as I recall, was having a lucky hat.

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