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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.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 16 2017, @01:47PM (2 children)
Wasn't there a story a while back about a guy who bio-engineered yeast to produce opiates? That seems like the way you'd really want to do it. Yeast is ubiquitous. You can make really excellent sourdough by mixing equal parts flour and water and letting it sit out for a couple days to capture the wild yeast in the air. Introduce enough of the bio-engineered variety into the environment and you could produce all the opiates you want by capturing the strain from the air.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Thursday November 16 2017, @04:23PM (1 child)
Sounds... dangerous. Some housewife tries to make herself a sourdough starter and ends up ODing on morphine loaf.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 16 2017, @05:32PM
You'd need to culture it at much greater quantities. Making sourdough starter would at most mellow you out, I'd think.
Washington DC delenda est.