Gypsy Jan - 3-1-2013 at 11:48 AM
From The Associated Press
MEXICALI, Mexico - "A powerful improvised cannon was used to hurl packets of marijuana across a border fence into California, police in the border
city of Mexicali say.
The device officers confiscated was made up of a plastic pipe and a crude metal tank that used compressed air from the engine of an old car, police
told the Televisa network.
The apparatus fired cylinders packed with drugs that weighed as much as 30 pounds, police. It was confiscated last week after U.S. 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."
Pompano - 3-1-2013 at 12:08 PM
Once upon a time, many years ago...in Coyote Bay.
Speaking of cannons firing weird things....every once in a while when I was inside or on the patio of mi casa, I would hear a distant
'Ka-thump!' and then a loud 'Thud!' on my roof.
It was Crazy Jake, my mountainside neighbor & amigo, firing his souped-up potato cannon from his patio high above me. The dang thing was like a
howizter!
I never had to buy or raise spuds, as long as Jake was zeroing in on my roof. Great times!
Sorry about this little hijack, Gypsy. Say No to Drugs...Yes to Spuds!
Did You Bake Them or Mash'em?
Gypsy Jan - 3-1-2013 at 12:12 PM
Hook - 3-1-2013 at 12:53 PM
Oh great. Fox News will be demanding a border fence FIVE TIMES HIGHER now.
DENNIS - 3-1-2013 at 01:50 PM
It's a new illegal immigration method:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Eqx3OETuw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBTdVeUkTJ0
Lee - 3-1-2013 at 02:39 PM
Is there a market for schwag? Maybe middle-America?
When I see busts showing compressed bricks, I wonder who would be buying this stuff? Anyone know street value?