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Smuggling Drugs Across The Mexican Border? There's A Drone For That
Worried about the honesty of your drug mule? Concerned that your smugglers will demand higher and higher minimum wage? There's a drone for that. Once again technology has enabled 'progress' as AP reports police in a Mexican border city said Wednesday that a drone overloaded with illicit methamphetamine crashed into a supermarket parking lot. As AVWeb notes, drones carrying illegal drugs and contraband have been among the creative ideas used by smugglers, and crashes do happen from loss of control or perhaps weight-and-balance problems. Brings a whole new meaning to 'Breaking Bad'.
Drug-Drone-Down!!
Police in a Mexican border city said Wednesday that a drone overloaded with illicit methamphetamine crashed into a supermarket parking lot.
Tijuana police spokesman Jorge Morrua said authorities were alerted after the drone fell Tuesday night near the San Ysidro crossing at Mexico’s border with California.
Six packets of the drug, weighing more than six pounds, were taped to the six-propeller remote-controlled aircraft, authorities said.
Morrua said authorities are investigating where the flight originated and who was controlling it. He said it was not the first time they had seen drones used for smuggling drugs across the border.
Other innovative efforts have included catapults, ultralight aircraft and tunnels.
The drone crashed in the bushes outside a 12-foot razor wire fence at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville.
It was the first known attempt to fly a drone with contraband into that state’s prisons, but the idea isn't new, the AP reported.
In 2013, four people in Georgia were accused of using a drone to fly tobacco and cellphones into a state prison there.
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More robots replacing humans? Where is a drug mule supposed to earn a fair wage?
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Mrs K and I were having lunch out today and the place had CNN, MSNBC and Fox news on .... each wall, a wall of propaganda.
So Fox has a piece abut the drug drone crashing and guess what!?!?!?!?
Now, we're under attack by drones!
We're losing the Drug War so now we have to have a Drone War!
The War on Drones
Didn't mention anything about the US drones killing small brown people, but Jesus folks, y'all can't expect us to get every base covered now, can 'ya?
There's a Drone Gap!
Where's Gen. Buck Turgidson when we need him? Oh yeah, purged out under the Pajamo Administration for being forthright and homophobic.
Forward!
you got to love the CIA
Looks like the Bush family has some competition. Drones to be banned in 3 - 2 - 1 . . .
The Drones are coming TO the US, not FROM. $150K meth and each Drone is $5K. Bet they've been doing this for a while.
Wait, you think the Bushies are smuggling drugs into Mexico????
Now that's a real downer.
I proposed using a remote controlled airplane with two remotes to go across the border back in the '90's.
Yeah, I hung with that crowd back then.
My town was the buckle in the green belt.
A bottle of Ardbeg to the first person who guesses which town I lived in.
Hint,..it was a Canadian Western province,...
Don't forget the remote controlled quick release , this way no need to land it, after drop fly back home.
Supply and Demand - no stopping it
I just picked this up-
http://books.google.com/books/about/Compromised.html?id=zRlXGVfUJPsC
I know I've mentioned this before, but I live near my parents and visit them every week or so. Whenever I go to their house, they have Fox News on, and they switch around between that and CNN and the Sunday morning political shows.
It's like walking into Bizarro World, and I literally laugh out loud at something stupid almost every time. Some of the "reporting" is just so patently absurd and infused with propaganda that it's almost like watching satire.
You just outside matrix box.
McM...when i go into someone's house: parents, relatives, friends, etc. the tv is turned off or i leave
Once you've stepped through the looking glass... nothing is ever the same.
To me the entire edifice of government is nothing but "The Emperor's New Clothes." It's just a bunch of people pretending they have the right to rule over everyone else. When in reality, it's just the same ole gangsterism as usual.
http://isil.org/pol/
Scarier stiill it seems as if it's ALWAYS FOX 'NEWS' if the TV in any public venue is tuned to 'news'.....
Lots of basic cable systems have FOX as your only cable 'news' choice too.... It's truly scary listening to a loyal Fox drone - they actually believe all the BS they're fed and think the rest of the world is delusional.....The evil 'liberal' media is in control EVERYWHERE ELSE - yeah that bastion of 'liberalism' The NY Times - the paper that sat on the domestic spying story at the request of Bush..... My response is WHAT 'liberal' media?!?!?!? 95% of ALL media is owned by 6 corporations
You are doing better than me. When I have that shit FORCED on me I literally start shaking with rage, especially when someone like Hannity or Judge Jean comes on. I have to leave the room or try to talk over it. And no, meds don't help I tried...
It's not news, it's entertainment! Problem is some folks don't get it...
Knuks, I appreciate all his help with various charities, but if Bill O'Rielly were running the White House, we'ld all be radioactive.
He seems nice enough, but has zero understanding of finance and real Geopolitics. I've watched many people run for political office on ideas they believe in. Unfortunately those ideas aren't reality.
Wasn't his last job before telly commentator mayor of Fukushima?
The harbinger of things to come, I am surprised that they are not proliferated more.
Meh...not bad, but where are the wedding busting hellfires on that thing? talk to me then...
Oh crap, that was my Amazon.crack order
LA Times: Did Pope flash ‘devil’s sign’?http://tinyurl.com/mpzzxkv
Tweeker One-Nine, Tweeker One-Nine
Crank is falling out of the sky.
If they ban drones then only the criminals will have drones.
The day Jamie Dimon looks out his corner office window and sees one hovering will be the day they're banned........
Just think of the video a drone could get from that vantage point.....
Video? You think small. Sight picture for the money shot.
Some folks got too greedy... "overloaded drone", LOL.
They should have gone with Recommended Payload instead of Maximum Payload. Next time.
Looks like a mix of meth and weed, no? would have probably been ok with just the weed, I reckon. And seriously, these drones were just RC multi-copters 5 years ago, think the term is misused. I'm getting grumpy as I get older, dang.
See kids.. that's what happens when drones do drugs
"Illicit drugs will only come into this country via approved routes and for the benefit of our political friends." -- CIA
Exactly right Ignatius! The CIA brings in the drugs and the big banks launder the money taking 20% off the top.
Rumor has it that works great in Afghanistan as well!
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mexico-s-drug-cartels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html
I am Tuco and I say death to the new world order and all the punks that work for them!
Side benefits are:
1) the masses pay for the SOMA that keeps them drugged and oblivious
2) prisons are kept full with the unprotected low level dealers and desperate users (exceptions are made for the wealthy recreational users)
it's a 'win-win' in keeping the masses under control.
Typical Fed Ex
Typical Ex Fed
Just think if you were in the right place at the right time with an RF intereferance device.
Free shit coming down.
Gps controlled, not radio.
This made my brain hurt. GPS satellites transmit radio signals that the GPS receivers use to triangulate their position.
More likely this is a direct control drone though. The current ones have the ability to fly home or soft land if comms are cut or battery is low. At a guess the extra weight drained the battery faster then the smugglers anticipated and the drone went to soft land, but the extra weight caused it to hard land.
Senator Schumer will surely call for a living wage for drug mules?
Pfft, drones, why bother?
Promise the Parasite-in-Chief that you'll vote blue.
They'll send a bus to the Tijuana bus stop of your choice, waive your brown-ass, and your 6 kids, right through customs, in Spanish.
First voter registration is free. Actually, the other voter registrations will be free as well. What a country!
Moar votes, moar clients
Do the unemployed Drug Mules get counted as Discouraged Workers?
Seriously, if I were to put one of those up, I'd go hindenburg with it - nice, aero blimp with a ducted fan not so likely to crash and burn. Cartel guys, drop me a line, I will sketch something up for you. Hint: it will look like a balloon filled with meth.
Quite expensive. You're talking about $4k for a small outdoor blimp.
Not that I've thought of using them for carrying drugs. Occifer.
this is news but nutandyahoo speaking before congress without an invite from the potus is not. gotcha.
O'Bungles is not in charge of the borders.
Jerry Brown signed multibillion tax dollar surveillance treaty with Israel.
http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18438
http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18429
Kalifornia Uber Alles
At least Juan doesn't have to pay back his Jared Loughner Merit scholarschip. He's just out a toy.
And to think we ridiculed Amazon when they announced their intention to use delivery drones. Apparently they were onto something.
Copy cats.....
So helicopter Ben's proposal has come to pass - they're just handing out meth instead of dollars.
Children can find that lost meth.
Oh wonderful. Now government will ban private use of drones in their war on drugs, so they are the only ones that can use them on us.
I remain highly amused by the creativity the Mexicans apply in meeting domestic demand for drugs. If these folks ran the US Postal Service, we'd pay $0.03 to mail a medium-sized box across the US, and it would arrive within 24 hours.
You are so right, took 6 months by post to get a birth certificate from Europe (no Fedex option) to Mex, few tons of goods went other way by that time I´m sure.
But still, faster then Obamas cert.
I've seen that drone - Amazon
Just a little dronewalking by PlaceHolder @ the DOJ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU
Crosby Stills Nash and Young don't sing about drones bringing drugs from Mexico so I don't believe it. The truth is past. The future is an illusion and I can't go on. But I will. F'n A I will.
How long before the police start crashing drones of illegal drugs into properties they want to steal? I know, I know, that would never happen because all cops are honest defenders of the kingdom of the goodness and all but just saying - how long before its common place?
No need to waste the drone. Just drop the drugs on your property. Right there, on your front lawn. For all the world to see. Look, right there. Drugs.
'you're coming with us sir'.
Old news if you live in SoCal. Got some buddies that like to fly remote control helicopters and planes in the desert. Sometimes they get inspected and get their entire trailer gone through cabinet by cabinet. The border patrol and ICE are not friendly about it at all. Fair waring if airborne RC is your thing, it attracts a lot more attention than you might think out here.
Took the feds awhile to figure out why the on foot drug mules are only bringing up big bags of pot and no coke or smack...