Drug Catapult Found At US-Mexico Border

suraj.sun writes "According to a Fox News report: 'Drug smugglers trying to get marijuana across the Arizona-Mexico border apparently are trying a new approach — a medieval catapult, capable of launching 4.4 pounds of marijuana at a time. National Guard troops operating a remote video surveillance system at the Naco Border Patrol Station say they observed several people preparing a catapult and launching packages over the International Border fence last Friday evening. The 3-yard tall catapult was found about 20 yards from the US border on a flatbed towed by a sports utility vehicle, according to a Mexican army officer with the 45th military zone in the border state of Sonora.'"

Comments

Re:Angry Drugs

[Skuld-Chan]

That's more of an android game ;).

Anyone else have this idea?

[Umuri]

I mean surely i'm not the only engineer who's joked that all they really need to do is catapult and parachute to get over the border, with no need for a parachute if they're launching hard projectiles. I mean the range on old catapults and trebuchets was quite well, and could be scaled as a simple matter of physics.

So I suppose next we might find a tunnel that is one mile down and 40 miles under the border to breach the "castle walls" of the united states?

Re:Anyone else have this idea?

[dkleinsc]

As Penn and Teller pointed out on their show Bullshit!, the border "wall" that conservatives keep on talking about building would be completely ineffective. A reasonably enterprising illegal immigrant could breach or bypass said wall in approximately 2 minutes (either climbing over, digging under, or busting a hole in the middle), and given that they've likely traveled for days just to get to the border, the extra 2 minutes aren't going to stop them. Heck, even the Berlin Wall didn't stop people trying to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin - people got past it with balloons, tunneling, and crashing border stations among other methods.

On the upside, I view those as proof that human ingenuity can beat oppression.

Re:Next you will see

[alexborges]

Okay... protecting your border would actually be very easy, you know?

You need to LEGALIZE DRUGS in the US NOW. The groups that "import" mexicans and latinamericans to the US are the very same that have caused oh just about 30,000 dead here in México, and they manage their logistics precisely by coke trafficking in the US.

If you guys were to legalize drugs Mexico would too and we would have a legal export that would be enough to feed everyone here.

Understand the following:

1) Mexico COMPLIES with whatever policy the US sets on drug control.
2) We pay for it in OUR blood and you guys give us about a couple billion dollars to "help", in about 3 years.
3) Now the market of drugs for import in the US is close, by conservative estimates, to 11 billion dollars....

How the FUCK do you expect us to mess the cartels up, if you pay them 11 billion, but help out only by 20% of that?

Like it or not, geography is not going to change: we are neighbors. Believe me, id like it if we were argentina, where Cannabis is legal in Buenos Aires, and not your neighbor that, being a sensible "thing" in the list of shit about your national security, is doomed to bend to your HUGE pressure to do irrational things like the war on drugs.

Remember this: MEXICANS ARE FOR LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS. We dont do it, because it makes no sense to legalize here (we have 5% incidence on first-or-only-time drug consumption as opposed to your 50%), if you shitfucks dont do it up there.

We are getting very, very much fucked up by cartels that get their money from you,.