Smugglers use canon to shoot cannabis over US border

[Potent]

Source - http://www.telegraph...-US-border.html

Smugglers use canon to shoot cannabis over US border

Mexican smugglers have used a pneumatic-powered cannon to propel cans packed with 85 pounds of marijuana into the air and over a fence at the Mexican border near San Luis, Arizona.

"We haven't seen this before," said Kyle Estes, a US Border Patrol spokesman. "We've seen catapults, but nothing like this. That's for sure."

He estimated the marijuana's value at $42,500 (£26,000).

The plot was foiled when US Border Patrol agents discovered the 33 pot-filled cans last week before they could be picked up by smugglers in an area about 500 feet from the border fence, on the United States side, Mr Estes said.

Agents searching the area about 200 miles southwest of Phoenix recovered a carbon dioxide tank used to propel objects from the cannon, he said.

Smugglers have become increasingly inventive in trying to move contraband into the US in light of stepped up efforts to crack down on border smuggling, Mr Estes said.

US authorities have added more fencing, agents and technologies including unmanned surveillance drones to tighten security along Arizona's border with Mexico in recent years.

Drug traffickers have responded with a variety of ruses including strapping marijuana loads to low-flying microlight aircraft and hurling it over the border fence using medieval-style catapults.

No one was arrested in connection with the latest scheme.

Source: Reuters

[Dust]

haha surprising they had not done it before ^^ They should try with Jetpacks

[bigred]

its funny on one side of the fence its worth a couple of hundred dollars, but on the other side

its worth 40,000 thats a pretty good mark up

[Smokeythabear]

That is both funny and creative. You would think they would want to get their times organized a little better so that they can pick up the stash before the border does..or maybe it was only a distraction for the millions of cocaine they smuggled across somewhere else lol. I agree with bigred, those numbers look good for the US "war on drugs" aka give a bunch of wahoos guns and jobs that shouldn't even exist if they didn't have such ridiculous drug policies.