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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Marijuana cannon' used to fire drugs over US border seized in Mexico
Source: Associated Press
'Marijuana cannon' used to fire drugs over US border seized in Mexico
Associated Press in Mexicali
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 27 February 2013 17.29 GMT
Police in the border city of Mexicali say they have recovered a powerful improvised cannon used to hurl packets of marijuana across a border fence into California.
Police told the Televisa network that the device was made up of a plastic pipe and a crude metal tank that used compressed air from the engine of an old car.
The apparatus fired cylinders packed with drugs that weighed as much as 13 kilos, police said. It was confiscated last week after US officers told Mexican police that they had been confiscating a large number of drug packages that appeared to have been fired over the border. Mexican police on the border have recovered a series of similar devices in recent years.
Associated Press in Mexicali
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 27 February 2013 17.29 GMT
Police in the border city of Mexicali say they have recovered a powerful improvised cannon used to hurl packets of marijuana across a border fence into California.
Police told the Televisa network that the device was made up of a plastic pipe and a crude metal tank that used compressed air from the engine of an old car.
The apparatus fired cylinders packed with drugs that weighed as much as 13 kilos, police said. It was confiscated last week after US officers told Mexican police that they had been confiscating a large number of drug packages that appeared to have been fired over the border. Mexican police on the border have recovered a series of similar devices in recent years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/27/marijuana-cannon-us-border-seized-mexico
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'Marijuana cannon' used to fire drugs over US border seized in Mexico (Original Post)
Eugene
Mar 2013
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htuttle
(23,738 posts)1. They were probably high when they came up with that idea
Mopar151
(9,983 posts)8. Got baked and watched "Punkin Chunkin" on the tube
longship
(40,416 posts)2. Wow Man! One could really get blasted with that pipe.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)7. Biggest bong I've ever seen!
lunasun
(21,646 posts)3. Go there on Mardi Gras- Yell "Throw me something mister!"
Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)4. Who needs Mexican weed?
We grow amazing stuff here. Legally.
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Kali
(55,008 posts)5. BWAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!
plate of shrimp - my friend and I crossed at Calexico.Mexicali less than a month ago, didn't see any cannons.
sure can see the border fence/wall all along that area, though
frylock
(34,825 posts)13. plate of shrimp..
I was just listening to 'When the Shit Hits the Fan.' ell ohh ell!
shanti
(21,675 posts)6. Mexico, check it out:
We don't want your weed!
Initech
(100,070 posts)10. They should've used a trebuchet - more accurate!
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)11. What a genius idea.
Oh hell yeah!
Brilliant.
randomelement
(128 posts)14. Guess I'll put my catcher's mitt away now n/t