And Now For Something Completely Different
If necessity is truly the mother of invention, in some cases stupidity has to rank at least a distant cousin. Case in point: catapulting drug-smugglers on the Arizona-Mexican border. This from FoxNews:
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.
“It looks like a medieval catapult that was used back in the day,” Tucson sector Border Patrol spokesman David Jimarez told Reuters.
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The catapult was capable of launching 4.4 pounds of marijuana at a time, the officer said Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons.
“I have not seen anything like that in my time before as a Border Patrol agent … although we are trained to handle any kind of a threat that comes over that border,” Jimarez added.
Soldiers seized found 35 pounds of marijuana, the vehicle and the catapult device, the officer said.
The smugglers left the area before they could be captured.
The Fox piece includes a video clip that’s worth a view, but when it comes to catapult action I’ll take French taunting over Mexican drug smuggling:
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