World’s most awesome drug smugglers fire weed into U.S. with a cannon [View all]

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Some super-creative drug smugglers came up with a sure-fire way to get their pot over the Mexican-American border without all the stuffing it into car-radiators and the underground tunnels and child labor and generally indecorous practices that make life unpleasant for everyone: launch it over the border in a big-ass cannon.

There was one critical flaw to the plan, though: They either A) Didn’t have anyone on the U.S. side to pick it up, or B) As can happen with cannons, they didn’t know exactly where the stuff was going to land.

U.S. border troops in Colorado found 33 cans of weed in a field near the Mexican border by the Colorado River, apparently getting to the pot before whoever was intended to pick it up. Agents were able to conclude by a carbon dioxide tank found nearby that the cans were shot across the border in a cannon. They instructed their counterparts on the Mexican side to be on the lookout for more weed and cannon parts.

The cans contained 85 pounds of weed—$42,500 total—which as far as these things go isn’t a huge amount of weed. But hey, when you’re testing a new technology you’ve gotta start small

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/192203/worlds-most-awesome-drug-smugglers-fire-weed-into-u-s-with-a-cannon/