Flour and sugar sold in Brazil don't always have them, but packages of cocaine offered by a notorious Rio de Janeiro drug gang are now showing up complete with bar codes and price tags. Police said they had confiscated 260 packets of cocaine in a shanty-town near Rio, each with a sticker identifying the product by code 0001 and bearing the name of the merchants and a slogan—"Now, it's us." A roll of supermarket-style stickers was also confiscated. The bags of cocaine bore the initials of the Third Command criminal organization, notorious for bloody gangland turf wars in Rio's slums, and were priced at .20 for each dose. Surprised police said they were still guessing whether the identification was a one-off joke by drug traffickers, a celebration that the gang had taken over somebody else's business, or a brand-new accounting method now being adopted by the drug trade."We are now investigating whether the bar code serves for anything. We haven't seen anything like that before,"said Capt. Barbosa of the 20th Military Police Battalion. Bar codes, which can be read by a laser scanner, are used worldwide for inventory control on consumer products.

　　在巴西，市面上的面粉和糖不一定有条形码标记，而里约热内卢一个臭名昭著的贩毒团伙供应的可卡因包装上却堂而皇之地打上了条码，挂上了价签。警方说他们在里约附近的一个棚屋区缴获了260包可卡因，每包上都有不干胶标签写明商品代码“0001”、经销商名称和一句口号：“现在，该我们了。”同时被缴获的还有一卷超市样式的不干胶标签。包装袋上有犯罪组织“第三舰队”的名字缩写，定价为每剂1.20美元。“第三舰队”以在里约贫民区进行血腥帮派斗争闻名。惊诧不已的警方说他们还不知道这些标记是毒贩们一时兴起的玩笑还是他们对抢占了其他人地盘的庆祝，或者是表示他们已经在毒品生意中引入了全新的会计方法。第20宪兵队的巴博萨上尉说：“我们还在调查这些条形码是否有什么含义。我们以前没见过这样的东西。”条形码可由激光扫描仪识别，在世界各地被广泛应用于消费品库存管理。

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