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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDrug-slinging catapult seized on US-Mexico border
Drug-slinging catapult seized on US-Mexico border
(CNN) -- Border Patrol agents in Arizona thwarted some clever drug smugglers and dismantled a drug catapult used to launch marijuana into the United States from Mexico.
The catapult was attached to the top of a border fence near the Douglas Port of Entry, which is about two hours southeast of Tucson, Customs and Border Protection officials said in a statement Tuesday. The device appeared to be constructed of square tubing and a heavy spring welded together, with rope tied around parts of it.
The contraption probably wouldn't win any pumpkin chunkin competitions, but it was powerful enough to sling two bundles of weed -- weighing a combined 47 pounds -- into the United States from Mexico.
Agents made the discovery on February 10, when they approached several people near the fence, who then ran away.
http://www.ktnv.com/news/national/drug-slinging-catapult-seized-on-us-mexico-border
(CNN) -- Border Patrol agents in Arizona thwarted some clever drug smugglers and dismantled a drug catapult used to launch marijuana into the United States from Mexico.
The catapult was attached to the top of a border fence near the Douglas Port of Entry, which is about two hours southeast of Tucson, Customs and Border Protection officials said in a statement Tuesday. The device appeared to be constructed of square tubing and a heavy spring welded together, with rope tied around parts of it.
The contraption probably wouldn't win any pumpkin chunkin competitions, but it was powerful enough to sling two bundles of weed -- weighing a combined 47 pounds -- into the United States from Mexico.
Agents made the discovery on February 10, when they approached several people near the fence, who then ran away.
http://www.ktnv.com/news/national/drug-slinging-catapult-seized-on-us-mexico-border
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Drug-slinging catapult seized on US-Mexico border (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Feb 2017
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nikibatts
(2,198 posts)1. They must have been smoking to come up with clever idea.
trixie2
(905 posts)2. I remember making a catapult in school
Cool project.
onethatcares
(16,188 posts)3. probably left behind by
Wiley E. Coyote.
dembotoz
(16,844 posts)4. it could do it with style
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)5. Ok that is funny! lol nt
Ms. Toad
(34,099 posts)6. I read it as dung slinging. That sounded like a creative way for Mexico
to express its opinion about the US.
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)8. We need to build our own Trumpuchet!
Fling him over his giant wall, the way they used to fling animal carcasses into a beseiged castle.