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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAdam Schiff (tweet): If an American is hit over head with a big sack of drugs flying over the wall..
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forgotmylogin
(7,952 posts)"transparency".
Nor how walls work.
Warpy
(114,615 posts)Stupid asshole has got to GO.
True Dough
(26,668 posts)leftstreet
(40,681 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)And he just looks like a .. I don't know.. a bank teller..
LOL!!
Shoonra
(602 posts)I kind of wonder why anyone inside Mexico would throw valuable drugs over the wall blindly, but it seems to me that anyone on this side of the wall who is close enough to be hit by drugs was perhaps standing that close in expectation of those drugs or some similar contraband.
Anyway, I would figure that, by now, Central/South American contrabandistas are sophisticated enough to use drones, such as was used in a recent prison break. They wouldn't just be pitching expensive drugs over the wall overhand.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)DeminPennswoods
(17,506 posts)Anyway, a few convex mirrors on the Mexican side would solve the problem of blindly flinging drugs over the fence/wall. There's always tunnels, too.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Hekate
(100,133 posts)DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts).... can you imagine the wing-nuts coming out of their KKK sheets if a Jewish person was nominated?
JoJo
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)The idea is to make gaps in the wall to allow the drugs to be passed through. Saves all the effort of trying to make it over.
sandensea
(23,343 posts)This is what's been happening UNDER the border in response to Cheeto's supposed plans:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/01/16/cartels-reviving-sealed-tunnels-along-u-s-mexico-border.html
Merlot
(9,696 posts)sandensea
(23,343 posts)I emphasized the wrong point.
Yes, there certainly is a myriad of tunnels underneath the border - many of which date back to the '80s and '90s, and some up to half a mile long (complete with rails).
The point, though, was that a number of decommissioned tunnels are now being put back into use thanks to Cheeto's hot air about expanding the wall (which, ironically, he isn't likely to get done anyway).
And as you pointed out, even he built "the biggest, most beautiful" wall, it won't mean a thing.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)That way, they just have to ring the doorbell. If someone is on the other side,he can answer it. Only if there's no one there do they have to fling it over the wall.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)rocktivity
(45,006 posts)yuiyoshida
(45,415 posts)N/T
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)ever......
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)jmowreader
(53,194 posts)Anyone who seriously thinks the Mexicans are going to just stroll up to the wall and fling huge bags of drugs over is on some pretty strong ones himself.
onecent
(6,096 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)One cool, calm cucumber, that Adam Schiff (and wicked SMART!)
longship
(40,416 posts)Just ask Montgomery Scott about it, laddie!
R B Garr
(17,984 posts)Gothmog
(179,869 posts)malaise
(296,118 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)we needed this!!
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Who have been calling for a fence instead of the wall so you can see what's happening on the other side.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)riversedge
(80,812 posts)apkhgp
(1,070 posts)This goes down funnier than his idea for putting solar panels on the wall.
Schiff looks like Michael Moriarty
apkhgp
(1,070 posts)tclambert
(11,193 posts)Last edited Mon Jul 17, 2017, 09:19 PM - Edit history (1)
Nailzberg
(4,610 posts)Well, probably still is, I say used to because I remember that used to always be on ESPN in the late 90s, and I don't really see it anymore, but I'm sure it still exists.
Except they threw kegs. Just huge dudes tossing kegs over a wall, I don't think it was 30' but it was pretty dang high.
Initech
(108,783 posts)NCjack
(10,297 posts)a catcher on the USA side. Instead of safely throwing 1-kilo packages, 1 at a time, the thrower tosses the full 60 pounds. If the fence is transparent, that would facilitate their crime, and they would escape the law. I want the person on the USA side to get the full 60-lb load in the head. No transparent fence!
