Marijuana Catapulted Across U.S.-Mexican Border

[DoobieDuck]

From CBC new website
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2011/01/27/marijuana-catapult.html?ref=rss


Marijuana catapulted across U.S.-Mexican border


Drug smugglers trying to get marijuana across the Arizona-Mexico border apparently are trying a new approach — a catapult.
National Guard troops operating a remote video surveillance system at the Naco Border Patrol Station say they observed several people preparing a catapult and launching packages over the International Border fence last Friday evening.
Tucson TV station KVOA said Border Patrol agents working with the National Guard contacted Mexican authorities, who went to the location and disrupted the catapult operation.
The three-metre-tall catapult was found about 20 metres from the U.S. border on a flatbed towed by a sports utility vehicle, according to a Mexican army officer with the 45th military zone in the border state of Sonora.
The catapult was capable of launching two kilograms of marijuana at a time, the officer said Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons.
Soldiers seized found 16 kilograms of marijuana, the vehicle and the catapult device, the officer said.
The smugglers left the area before they could be captured.

 

[MegaHermie]

going back to the medieval style of smuggling.. back to the roots!

 

[ddrew]

I need to start hanging out on the US side of the wall with a big catchers mitt

 

[hunt4genetics]

What's next,

The Swayze Train?

 

[Duplicate]

That's very cool. lol!

 

[HighDesertJoe]

Gives new meaning to the phrase HEADS UP

 

[W.Less Monk]

????

 

[FirstTracks]

They needed to build a better catapult. Maybe check out pumpkin launchers. sounds like the one they had was way underpowered/undersized

 

[gaiusmarius]

i love it, too funny.

 

[supermanlives]

did they toss a few mexicans to test it

 

[MadBuddhaAbuser]

fuckin awesome!

 

[Lazyman]

I was gonna say, pretty soon there will be a new Mexican airline.

"Ok sir, please pull the cord when you reach the apogee of your flight, and give this package to the nice man on the other side."

Ready? FIRE!

 

[feral]

Can you imagine just walking along in the desert and all of a sudden getting beaned in the head by a 2 kilo brick from out of nowhere?

 

[igrowkushbitch]

Thats awesome.

 

[Hydrosun]

Thank god the US Boarder Patrol and the AZ national guard stopped those 8.8lbs of weed from reaching the street!

How much do these ass clowns get paid? Time for some drastic budget cuts and real jobs for these moochers.

 

[Green lung]

Whaaaaaaat. Just a couple of Mexican Medieval fair nerds.

 

[Lazyman]

Can you imagine just walking along in the desert and all of a sudden getting beaned in the head by a 2 kilo brick from out of nowhere?

Hey, bales of drugs wash up on coastlines all over the world, why not falling from the sky?

 

[silentspider]

i can see the cartles running aroung mexico rounding up parts for the catapults. they should wrap the pot in a newspaper and call it the sunday edition

 

[BrainSellz]

....wonder how many times that catapult has been used and worked....soon they'll be launching BIG BALLS of hash in potato guns over the fence, could do that from a distance....they need a Kilo Cannon....

 

[Iron_Lion]

Now that's how we should start sending back illegal immigrants, lauch their ass back over the boarder in a catapult I guarantee they wouldnt come back!