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Current Events => Breaking News => News From The Mexican Border => Topic started by: Alpha Mare on January 27, 2011, 04:28:24 AM

Title: Smugglers catapult pot over border fence
Post by: Alpha Mare on January 27, 2011, 04:28:24 AM

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In a brazen attempt reminiscent of a medieval siege, Mexican smugglers tried to use a hefty catapult to hurl drugs north over the U.S. Border, authorities said on Wednesday.

The Mexican military seized 45 pounds of marijuana, a sports utility vehicle and a metal-framed catapult just south of the Arizona border near the small town of Naco last Friday, following a tip-off from the U.S. Border Patrol.

Surveillance video taken by National Guard troops deployed to support the Border Patrol caught a group of men apparently attempting to pull down a metal beam and load or test the catapult, which was powered by powerful elastic and mounted on a trailer close to the metal border fence.




[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc9jOVfeoQg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Title: Re: Smugglers catapult pot over border fence
Post by: IassaFTots on January 27, 2011, 09:42:24 AM

I heard about that on the radio this morning.  They never did say, or I never did hear where the border was.  I assumed AZ.  I guess I assumed right.   

Title: Re: Smugglers catapult pot over border fence
Post by: Chris_ on January 27, 2011, 09:53:15 AM

Quote from: IassaFTots on January 27, 2011, 09:42:24 AM

I heard about that on the radio this morning.  They never did say, or I never did hear where the border was.  I assumed AZ.  I guess I assumed right.   

(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/naco_sonora_MX.png)

Looks like the middle of nowhere.

Title: Re: Smugglers catapult pot over border fence
Post by: IassaFTots on January 27, 2011, 09:58:18 AM

I believe we have a cave member in in Sierra Vista.  That is awfully close.  Unlike most of the Tex-Mex border, AZ and Mex are right on top of each other.  I was watching a show on Nogales a few weeks ago, man, that stuff is tight!

Title: Re: Smugglers catapult pot over border fence
Post by: thundley4 on January 27, 2011, 10:47:56 AM

I say we move the catapult to our side of the border and use it as the preferred method for deporting illegals back across the border.

Title: Re: Smugglers catapult pot over border fence
Post by: IassaFTots on January 27, 2011, 10:59:45 AM

Quote from: thundley4 on January 27, 2011, 10:47:56 AM

I say we move the catapult to our side of the border and use it as the preferred method for deporting illegals back across the border.

Works for me, I like the way you think! 

Title: Re: Smugglers catapult pot over border fence
Post by: true_blood on January 27, 2011, 12:09:56 PM

Quote from: thundley4 on January 27, 2011, 10:47:56 AM

I say we move the catapult to our side of the border and use it as the preferred method for deporting illegals back across the border.

That would be awesome. They have a catapult in Mexico and we have a catapult on our side.
They catapult the drugs over, we confiscate them. Then, we load up an illegal and,....fire away. :-)

Title: Re: Smugglers catapult pot over border fence
Post by: Janice on January 27, 2011, 04:32:22 PM

(http://i53.tinypic.com/28thy8o.jpg)

Hehehe ...