Cartels Are Using Firetruck-Sized Drillers To Make Drug Pipelines 323
Daniel_Stuckey writes "In the beginning, they used catapults, dune buggies, 'jalapeños,' $1 million submarines, and sophisticated drug tunnels to move drugs northward. Now, Mexican drug cartels are taking to high-end industrial drills to carve out literal drug pipelines into the U.S. It's the next big leap in the evolution of the narcos' ingenious smuggle tech. The future of borderland drug running, it turns out, is boring. Jason Kersten reports on the phenomenon in a great GQ feature that focuses on the Sinaloa Cartel, the international crime syndicate believed to be behind the first known narco pipeline in 2008: '...Mexican authorities, responding to reports of a cave-in and flooding near the [All-American] canal, discovered a tunnel unlike anything they'd ever seen. Only ten inches wide, it was essentially a pipe. The Mexican cops traced it back to a house about 600 feet from the border, where they found a tractor-like vehicle with a long barrel on its side—a horizontal directional drill, or HDD.'"
Plotline of Weeds (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Plotline of Weeds (Score:5, Funny)
But thankfully they probably won't try to enforce the copyright.
Re:Any drones yet? (Score:5, Funny)
Well hell they have their own submarines and now large tunneling machines. Seems like drones are the next logical step.
If they get to the point where they have their own space program I say we just surrender in the war on drugs and let them run things.
Second pipeline? (Score:5, Funny)
You wouldn't want to interrupt the flow of drugs for something as inconsequential as cash.
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Colorado resident here (Score:2, Funny)
And man am I stoned - LEGALLY stoned mofos! I am expecting a call from Obama telling me I am under arrest just because I eat to the beat!
Re:Any drones yet? (Score:5, Funny)
If they get to the point where they have their own space program I say we just surrender in the war on drugs and let them run things.
It's when they start taking over pizza delivery franchises that you have to really begin to worry.
Re: Plotline of Weeds (Score:2, Funny)
When industrial-size long range conduit boring machines are outlawed, only outlaws will have industrial-size long range conduit boring machines...
Re:Or not a plot (Score:2, Funny)
The Druggernet is not a big truck! It is a series of tubes made by big trucks!