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Title: Marijuana Falls From Sky, Crushes Doghouse
Source:
Newser
URL Source: http://www.newser.com/story/213559/ ... from-sky-crushes-doghouse.html
Published: Sep 28, 2015
Author: Newser Editors and Wire Services
Post Date: 2015-09-28 13:04:15 by Hondo68
Keywords: sounded like thunder, 26 pounds of marijuana, drug smugglers aircraft
Views: 566
Comments: 5
(Newser) – Maya Donnelly awoke to what sounded like thunder in the early morning hours, but she dismissed it as a typical monsoon storm and went back to sleep. Later that morning, she looked in the carport at her home in Nogales, Ariz., near the border with Mexico, and saw pieces of wood on the ground. She found a bulky bundle wrapped in black plastic. Inside were roughly 26 pounds of marijuana—a package that authorities say was worth $10,000 and likely dropped there accidentally by a drug smuggler's aircraft. "It's all right on top of our dog's house," Donnelly says of the Sept. 8 incident. "It just made a perfectly round hole through our carport." She called her husband, Bill, who told her to call 911. The couple says responding officers told them an ultralight aircraft smuggling marijuana from Mexico had probably let part of its load go early by accident. The family will have to pay the estimated $500 in repairs and buy a new home for their German shepherd, Hulk. But it could have been much worse for the couple and their three teenage daughters. "Where it landed was clear on the other side of the house from the bedrooms," Donnelly says. Friends and family have joked that the couple could have profited from the surprise package. "That's what everybody says: 'Why did you call 911?'" Donnelly says. "But how can you have a clear conscience, right? We could have made lots of home repairs with that." (Other smugglers in Nogales used a sewage line.) Poster Comment: Absent the WOD this ag produce would be transported by truck. The cops probably sold the bale of weed, to build up their retirement fund. And the drug warriors make another dog enemy.Bundle that hit carport probably fell from plane
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
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Is this accurate? A few weeks ago I figured a pound of pot on the street is worth about $3,000 after a discussion with some pothead friends. I don't do the stuff. Edit: I looked it up - about $1,000 a pound is more accurate.
High quality marijuana sells (retail) for about $300 per ounce. Which results in one pound selling for $4800. It must be a typo. 26 pounds is worth closer to $100,000 on the street, not $10,000.
You bet - the cops could have SWAT-ted the house, killed their dog, terrorized the family and charged them with drug possession. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much Well, thank goodness the children or the dog were not injured!
Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Has anyone asked about the fate of the German shepherd, Hulk? Dead? Stoned? Extrordinarily wealthy? Only the shadow knows...
Inside were roughly 26 pounds of marijuana—a package that authorities say was worth $10,000 and likely dropped there accidentally by a drug smuggler's aircraft.
#2. To: Fred Mertz (#1)
#3. To: hondo68 (#0)
But it could have been much worse for the couple and their three teenage daughters.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#4. To: hondo68 (#0)
#5. To: hondo68 (#0)
...another dog enemy...
Hmmm?
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