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"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 16 2017, @02:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the reload-quickly dept.

takyon writes:

Drug-Shooting 'Bazooka' Seized In Mexico As Smugglers Aim Skyward

As Mexican authorities continue to crack down on drug smugglers, criminals continue to aim high in a bid to evade them. Last week, Mexican authorities seized a jury-rigged bazooka and nearly one ton of marijuana in the border town of Agua Prieta in Sonora state, the Mexican Attorney General said in a statement.

The bazooka had been "adapted" to use a compressor for launching drugs into the United States. The Mexican daily El Universal reports the device was inside a van with a sliding roof, allowing the bazooka to shoot the drugs from the cover of the vehicle.

Agua Prieta lies directly across the border from Douglas, Ariz. Last year, Mexican federal authorities found yet another "homemade bazooka" in the town, this one measuring nearly 10 feet long, alongside an air compressor inside a modified panel van with no license plate. Officials say it was apparently used for launching projectiles, possibly drugs, across the border.

If "legal" retail prices for cannabis drop, maybe these will be packed with heroin or cocaine instead.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @04:14AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @04:14AM (#597579)

    ...means "Brown water".
    Sounds like a lovely place.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @09:49AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @09:49AM (#597630)

    No, it means "sausage [wikipedia.org] water".

    It doesn't make me want to visit there any more though.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @05:14PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @05:14PM (#597772)

      Blood sausage, specifically.

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 16 2017, @05:33PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday November 16 2017, @05:33PM (#597784) Journal

      I call sausage water pee.

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    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday November 17 2017, @09:54AM (1 child)

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Friday November 17 2017, @09:54AM (#598120) Homepage
      No, it's an adjective, and it means dark (so could be used to describe something either black or brown). The black pudding you refer to has a noun for its name, and that noun also shares the implication of being dark. However that's not the reason it's called that, because prieto also means pressed (and the common 'p', 'r', and 'e' in the Spanish and English words are no coincidence, both come from a Latin root), which is the original meaning of the word, darkness was a more modern poetic interpretation of the implied density.
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @08:59PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @08:59PM (#598382)

        either black or brown

        I thought that brown water was bad enough.
        "Black water" is another name for sewage. [google.com]

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