Bundle of marijuana worth $10,000 falls from the sky and crushes dog house

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Bundle of marijuana worth $10,000 falls from the sky and crushes dog house

Police: 26lb-package likely dropped from smuggler’s aircraft or drone
Arizona couple who handed drugs in must rehouse German Shepherd, Hulk

Associated Press in Nogales,
Sunday 27 September 2015 17.01 EDT

Maya Donnelly awoke to what sounded like thunder in the early morning hours, but dismissed it as a typical monsoon storm and went back to sleep. Later that morning, she looked in the carport at her home in Nogales, near the US-Mexico border, and saw pieces of wood on the ground.

She found a bulky bundle wrapped in black plastic. Inside was roughly 26lbs of marijuana – a package that authorities say was worth $10,000 and was likely dropped there accidentally by a drug smuggler’s aircraft.

Police are now trying to determine whether the bundle was transported by an aircraft or a pilotless drone. Such runs usually occur at night.

“It’s all right on top of our dog’s house,” Donnelly said of the incident, which occurred on 8 September and was first reported by the Nogales International newspaper. “It just made a perfectly round hole through our carport.”

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/27/10000-dollars-marijuana-falls-from-sky-arizona-dog-house

[Orrex]

1. Bet it left one hell of a pothole.

[cui bono]

17. The rare kind with grass in it.

[Orrex]

2. Unkind!

[Orrex]

3. Let that be a lesson to those who say that pot isn't dangerous.

[SalviaBlue]

5. lol

[Orrex]

4. If it had been 28 pounds, they'd have been two stoned to talk

[7962]

6. Damn, you've got three already! My favorite is the first one though

[Orrex]

7. Yeah, diminishing returns.

Still, what a wacky story!

[pscot]

8. Buy local

Support your local grower.

[Bonobo]

9. In what universe is 26 pounds of pot only $10,000

At $100 per quarter, it would come to $166,400 dollars.

That's $400 per ounce, $6400 per pound.

To arrive at $10,000, I would have to calculate it at $6/quarter ounce.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. In April 2014, the Mexican wholesale price was under $25/kg - perhaps $11/lb

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/tracing-the-us-heroin-surge-back-south-of-the-border-as-mexican-cannabis-output-falls/2014/04/06/58dfc590-2123-4cc6-b664-1e5948960576_story.html

So perhaps the $400/lb price this article uses is what a smuggler gets for it once it's across the US border.

[Bonobo]

13. Wow!

That's insane! But then again, who would buy compacted Mexican stuff when you got those nice fluffy buds everywhere these days.

[Ed Suspicious]

23. It most assuredly is.

[wordpix]

36. may be due to legal growing of mmj=legal grow is coming down in price, too

My local dispensaries have dropped their sky high prices on many strains compared to last year this time. That's what competition does.

[Hestia]

14. Well, it does seem to be Mexican...

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

10. My first concern is, hows the dog.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Fine - “He was probably at the gate watching the plane go by.”

That bundle contained 23.8 pounds of marijuana, worth an estimated $9,500, that had passed cleanly through the carport roof’s several wooden layers and pulverized Hulk’s home, which he fortunately was not fond of.

“Thank goodness (Hulk) is a wanderer at night and was not in his house,” Maya said, adding: “He was probably at the gate watching the plane go by.”

http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/falling-drug-bundle-pierces-carport-crushes-doghouse/article_3389b792-62eb-11e5-92a7-93fd7e10019a.html

[jberryhill]

15. "which he fortunately was not fond of"

I'm thinking this may have been an inside job.

They should check their internet router logs. See if the dog has been arranging this.

[jtuck004]

16. Exactly. And then turn in the 30...I mean 26 lbs of weed.

Have to fix the hole for the dog, and at those prices that's barely gonna cover a few sheets of plastic.

Also pain and suffering.

[eggplant]

18. Heh.

[gvstn]

21. teehee!

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. They turned it in?????????

My dog would have been sitting at the front door with it in his mouth, waiting for a treat for fetching.
and I would have given him a whole box of biscuits!!!

[NBachers]

26. I know, but it's probably smart to hand it over, to prevent unwanted visits from unwanted visitors.

[jtuck004]

27. For that I would have signed him up for the "Case of Biscuits" of the month club.

[OnyxCollie]

30. Same here.

[Quackers]

19. Air Delivery

When you have to absolutely get high right now.

[tblue37]

34. Was this one of those new Amazon drone deliveries we keeping hearing will be

all the rage in the future?

[jmowreader]

20. How do they determine the relative worth of a particular batch of weed?

[A Simple Game]

24. I was wondering that myself, half the time they can't tell oregano from pot let alone it's worth.

Then again maybe they have an "expert" on the force. "Yeah, I know that cheap Mexican stuff when I smo... umm, when I smell it."

[Ed Suspicious]

25. Street price of average of all would be my guess.

[Plucketeer]

28. Another example of drugs

bringing ruination upon house and home!

[kentauros]

31. Those damn low-flying aeroplanes!

[Recursion]

32. On average a Florida acre produces 3 cents a year worth of cocaine dropped from smugglers' planes

https://what-if.xkcd.com/19/

[tblue37]

33. I hope the dog is OK. nt

[apnu]

35. I'll leave this right here.

[yellowcanine]

37. Seems to me Hulk the Dog has some 'splainin to do.