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POLICE IN THE border city of Mexicali say they have recovered a powerful improvised cannon used to hurl packets of marijuana across a border fence into California.
Police told the Televisa network that the device was made up of a plastic pipe and a crude metal tank that used compressed air from the engine of an old car.
The cannon fired cylinders packed with drugs that weighed as much as 13 kilos, police said.
It was confiscated last week after US officers told Mexican police that they had been seizing a large number of drug packages that appeared to have been fired over the border.
Mexican police have recovered a series of similar devices in recent years.
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A nightmare for the crew and their families.
Lets hope they can be found before tomorrow.
@NotMyIreland: All fingers crossed for them. It’s still possible that they’re on some ridge & can be reached in time.
are you telling me in this day and age that there’s no way of tracking or locating a bloody huge submarine???
@John Arsey: obviously that must be the case. It’s not large compared to the scale of the sea !
@John Arsey: the whole point of having a submarine is that they are as stealthy as possible
@Claudio Cavaliere: so there’s no protocol to deal with an Emergency on a submarine then?
@John Arsey: it’s a pretty massive sea
@John Arsey: Don’t forget MH370, we thought when that went missing we said the exact same thing.
Awful way to go
Modern submarines are extremely difficult to locate https://theconversation.com/submarines-are-designed-to-hide-so-what-happens-when-one-goes-missing-159634
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