More Tales from the Drug War (Thwarting the Border Fence Edition)
Steven L. Taylor
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
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This could also be the from “You Can’t Make this Stuff up” File….
Via the Telegraph: Now Mexican gangs really are bombarding America with drugs: Smugglers use T-shirt CANNONS to fire soup cans filled with marijuana 500ft over border
Authorities say 33 cans of pot were spotted Friday in a field near where the Colorado River crosses the U.S.-Mexico border.
They believe the cans were propelled about 500 feet into the U.S. from a pneumatic-powered cannon similar to the ones used to launch T-shirts.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a retired Professor of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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We just need a bigger wall, and maybe a moat with sharks in it, with lasers, yeah, that’s the ticket.
I’d chalk it up to promotional marketing. You will soon be able to buy it by the can, and you can make t-shirts from what is left over.
There was 2 quotes on that I read a while back. This one is when they discovered drug cartels using catapults. “We have million-dollar technology and they are winning with tools from barbaric times.
The other one is talking about the cannons. “Pretty soon, they are going to use guided missiles and deliver them to the dealers.”
Iron Dome. We have the technology. We track each soup can and blow it up mid-air with two 100,000 dollar missiles.
Iron Dome sounds like the perfect DOD solution. Hellaciously expensive and ineffective. It’s a two-fer.
Soon they will be paying $5 a pack for them when the states legalize them. More tax money for the US. Then they’ll be keeping every bit instead of throwing it over the border.