CNN had a report earlier today on these air-powered "pot cannons" that drug smugglers are using to lob marijuana over the border into the United States. This is the latest permutation on other smuggling tactics. I blogged here when they found a drug catapult. And I've written here about the use of ultralight aircraft to take drugs over the border. Then there are the tunnels. What's left? Fleets of carrier pigeons?
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Latest narco tactic: 'Pot cannons'
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it is a new bonging concept!!..also, the barrel and the packages seem too small to be herb, it is most likely blow...
Posted by: pink schnoid | 03/01/2013 at 03:02 PM
I have a photo in my collection of an SUV lodged on top of a border fence. How did it get there? Makeshift bridge tracks up one side.
Posted by: hana | 03/01/2013 at 12:22 AM