Submitted by Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
Mexican drug smugglers are becoming quite creative in their efforts to get marijuana into the U.S. No more low altitude drops from sleek planes in the Florida Everglades a’ la Miami Vice. Today’s smuggler is more into the “throwback” mode of delivery, so to speak. Invoking the tried and true philosophy of the Middle Ages, catapults have become the air mail vehicle of choice to launch packages of the intoxicating plant into Arizona.
Two “drug catapults” towed behind SUVs have been found in the Mexican state of Sonora by Mexican authorities. One measured ten feet tall and was accompanied by 35 pounds of pot. It flung the 4.4 pound packages about twenty yards. I am awaiting the Pot-N-Chunkin defense here.
No word yet on whether Arizona officials are interdicting the pot flights to seek out official papers under its tough new immigration policy.
Source: Washington Post
~Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
Well, Obama did call for inovation Tuesday night.
BIL:
Thanks for the MP clip. “Holy Grail” is one of my all time favorites!
AY,
I will send you a newsy one this afternoon … I have missed you too!
Afternoon Blouise….I am still waiting for your email….I have turned blue….oxygen deprivation…..just call me violet…..
AY,
lol … good afternoon my friend
If they regulate the drug trade then only the government will be the one in the drug trade…..and god knows the government hates competition……ever tried to print your own money?
Just can’t win in Mexico I guess,people hurling drugs over the borders and city officials picking the till clean:
33 ex-mayors accused of corruption in Mexico
VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — More than 30 former mayors in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz have been ordered arrested on suspicion of corruption.
Veracruz Deputy Attorney General Reynaldo Escobar says they are among 115 ex-municipal employees in the state charged with corruption between 2004 and 2008. He says the total amount suspected embezzled is 67 million pesos ($5.5 million).
The first to be arrested Friday was Leonardo Mendoza, former mayor of the town of Benito Juarez.
Escobar says Mendoza and his former treasurer are suspected of embezzling nearly 4 million pesos from federal and state resources meant for public works. He says prosecutors have evidence of expenditures that were not accounted for and overpaying in some projects.
I know its apples and oranges,but its still funny:
So someone please tell me,
Is the grass greener on the other side????
They taxed Pat Buchanan with this and his instant reply was “Build taller fences”.
Thanks HenMan … you just ruined my new business plan … big mouth …
Buddha-
Amen. Also,it would solve the excess capacity problem at Philip Morris.
Or we could just do the sensible thing – in the both the medical and financial sense – by legalizing and taxing marijuana, ending the bloated Federal and state funding of the ridiculous drug war that accomplishes nothing except creating a black market, the incarceration of non-violent offenders and the consequent corporate welfare such unjust imprisonment provides for the private for-profit prison system.
These guys are pikers. The U.S.Army has lots of surplus M-55 and M-110 Self-Propelled 8″ Howitzers that could be sold to the Mexican drug cartels to reduce our deficit. These babies can throw an 8″ diameter 200 pound cylindrical package of weed approximately 10 miles. And the best feature of this method of delivery is that the recipient of the 8″ diameter 200lb. joint will find that when it lands, one end of the joint is already lit! Smoke ’em if ya got ’em, boys!
raff,
That movie was so good, I nearly soiled my armor – from laughing too hard.
Buddha,
The Holy Grail was a great movie. I love their “horses”!
raff,
Might I suggest that the Python’s would use a more avian solution . . . much like their Medieval solution for coconuts.
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watch out, those smugglers will get medieval on you.
Patric,
I like the “hash” reference!
I’ve heard of greasy-spoon cafe waitresses “slinging hash” but always assumed it was a north-of-the-border phenomenon.
Impressive, in a medieval sort of way.
Mespo,
You are early, but I love this one. This is how Monty Python would shoot drugs over the border! Of course, 20 yards does not sound like a very good range in order to be useful in eluding the border patrol.