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Smugglers Launch Pot Over Border With Cannon

But a citizen finds them first

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 12, 2012 3:35 PM CST

(Newser) – The catapult didn't work so well. Nor did driving over the border fence with a makeshift ramp. Now Mexican drug smugglers have resorted to cannons, authorities say. Smugglers used a pneumatic cannon to shoot containers of pot over the border into an Arizona field, reports the Yuma Sun. It worked, except a citizen spotted the cans and alerted authorities before smugglers on the US side could retrieve them. The 33 cans had about $42,000 worth of marijuana inside. The would-be smugglers and their cannon remain at large.

A greenhouse at a farm in Potter Valley, Calif., in Mendocino County.
A greenhouse at a farm in Potter Valley, Calif., in Mendocino County.   (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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COMMENTS
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Bosda
Dec 13, 2012 7:33 AM CST
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Tology
Dec 13, 2012 4:24 AM CST
Why would anyone smoke that cheap mexican crap when we can grow pot here that is so much better.
roddy6667
Dec 12, 2012 11:12 PM CST
Technically, it was a giant shotgun.
 

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