Catapults over the Rio Bravo

[JackLuis]

Mexican gangs using catapults to hurl pot into US

HERMOSILLO, Mexico — Drug smugglers are using an ancient invention as a new way to move marijuana across the border from Mexico to Arizona.

The discovery of two "drug catapults" in the Mexican state of Sonora marks the latest twist in the cat-and-mouse game traffickers play with authorities.

U.S. National Guard troops operating a remote surveillance system at the Naco Border Patrol Station say they observed several people preparing a catapult and launching packages over the fence late last week.

Next they be using trebochets!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Next they be using trebochets!

That's some pretty low level technology for a well-financed bunch of narcos. Are these guys newbies in the smuggling biz?

 

[TE999]

Next they be using trebuchets!

I suppose cows are next. "I fart in your general direction."

 

[Zeb_Carter]

To a lay person a catapult and a trebochets are the same thing so one wonders, without pictures, which it actually was?

Next up a monster air cannon, plopping hundred pound packets of the herb across the border. Instead of pumpkin chunkin, some herb tossing.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

We need to bury mines along the border, especially where the wetbacks send air parcels across the river. Maybe claymore mines activated by photoelectric cells.

 

[Weird Harold]

Instead of pumpkin chunkin, some herb tossing.

Shouldn't that be Herb Hurling (pronounced 'erb 'urlin')?

 

[TxRad]

Wouldn't this be considered an attack using weapons of antique destruction?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Shouldn't that be Herb Hurling (pronounced 'erb 'urlin')?

Of course sir...I just couldn't come up with that on the spur of the moment. Thank you.

 

[Liar]

The minute men on the border should start practicing skeet shooting.

 

[1sickbastard]

The minute men on the border should start practicing skeet shooting.

The Minutemen only fire if fired upon, then they shoot at the shooter, not the munition. (this isn't a scene from History of the World Part 1, you know.)

 

[Liar]

The Minutemen only fire if fired upon, then they shoot at the shooter, not the munition. (this isn't a scene from History of the World Part 1, you know.)

Pfft, I thought they had an opportunity to be useful for once.