Sunday, January 30, 2011

Catapot

No, that's not a typo. Drug smugglers have recently been using a catapault to send bales of marijuana over the U.S.-Mexico border.



When will they learn to build a trebuchet?
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5 comments:

OrbsCorbs said...

Or just use a watermelon cannon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SF0m5h4UPU

I admire their ingenuity. And that's why this will never be stopped as long as there is a market for it.

The article doesn't say what happened on the US side. Were there people out there with catchers mitts waiting for the dope to drop from the sky?

January 30, 2011 at 4:54 PM
kkdither said...

Think of all the money the US is missing out on. My mom said that there was a hemp (rope) manufacturer in or around the Racine area when she was young. There was reportedly marijuana growing all along the rail lines in town, but it was all burned out and removed. Does anyone know if there is any truth to that?

January 30, 2011 at 6:27 PM
OrbsCorbs said...

I've heard that, too, kk, but I have no idea if it's true. But hemp was a big product until the Anslinger hysteria. And none of that "ditch weed" was good for smoking, anyway. That stuff was grown for its fiber, not its THC content.

January 30, 2011 at 10:49 PM
Why Not? said...

My dad used to live right on the rail line.. I remember him always talking about that that Marijuana used to grow right in his backyard when he was growing up..

January 31, 2011 at 2:42 AM
Huck Finn said...

Yes, during WWII he local farmers grow fields of hemp. There was a manufacturer in Sturtevant. As a kid I( looked through a dusty window of the abandoned building it was housed in and saw a huge pile of cisal rope. The rope was about 3" in diameter, and it was laid in a circle about 10' in diameter. I think the name of the company was Corliss.

As a kid I worked for a few of the farmers as a field hand and on weeding days we would go out and pull weeds. Often enough, we pulled put plants.

January 31, 2011 at 7:00 AM

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