Medieval-Style Mexican Drug Catapult Found South Of Tucson

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Medieval-Style Mexican Drug Catapult Found South Of Tucson – Video Added

Jan 26, 2011 12 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

Phoenix (AP) – Drug smugglers trying to get marijuana across the Arizona-Mexico border apparently are trying a new approach — a catapult.

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.

Tucson TV station KVOA said Border Patrol agents working with the National Guard contacted Mexican authorities, who went to the location and disrupted the catapult operation.

“It looks like a medieval catapult that was used back in the day,” Tucson sector Border Patrol spokesman David Jimarez told Reuters.

The smugglers left the area before they could be captured, but Mexican officials seized about 45 pounds of marijuana, an SUV and the catapult device.

“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.

Naco is about 80 miles southeast of Tucson.

derised1

This would make a great vid clip on the “World’s Dumbest Criminals” show! LoL! :beer:
Robert In Texas

We should adopt the same equipment when we deport illegals, bigger scale though.. :beer:

David

Great idea. Wish I had thought of it.
bacongreasenapalm

:beer:

Terry in Cleveland

It is clearly a trebuchet, not a catapult.
See Northern Exposure or Pupkin chuckers.
MinneSoCold

After reading this, all I see in my mind is the catapult scenes from Monty Python’s Holy Grail.

DC

“RUN AWAY”…..!!!

GRIZZ

We should send Napolitano over the same way
Ivan the Kafir

It’s definitely a catapult: it uses a massive rubber band and the guy in the video is seen tugging on the arm of the catapult prior to launch. The lift of the arm was very abrupt, typical of catapults. A trebuchet would have involved a large counterweight and the acceleration of the arm would have been more gradual, building up to the necessary velocity. For a demonstration of these principles, watch the Minas Tirith battle scene from LOTR. As an aside, that is a very half-ass construction but catapults like it were built by the Russians for throwing grenades during WWI. The only real difference was that the Russians used steel springs.
Rhayader

This is a humorous example, but the reality is that we will NEVER stop the flow of illegal drugs into the US. More importantly, we will never stop the flow of huge sums of cash into the hands of murderous Mexican cartels, sums which allow them to continue extending their corrupt and violent reach.

Never, that is, until we abandon the farce that is drug prohibition in favor of a freer, more constitutional approach. Drug prohibition is not, and never has been, a conservative undertaking. Rather, it is one of the most ambitious and wrong-headed progressive social engineering experiments ever devised.
alex

its all about the mexicans u fools we rule :gun: :gun:
Russ

Oh, give me a break. Rhayader says drug prohibition is “one of the most ambitious and wrong-headed progressive social engineering experiments ever devised.” What BS. Must you try to frame every single thing in a political context like this? And pin everything bad on progressives? I can also see the move afoot to attempt to demonize the word “progressive” like the word “liberal” was demonized. Talk about wrong-headed.