Mexican law enforcement seizes a hacked together Weed Cannon

hackaday.com 01 Mar '13, 1pm

Mexican law enforcement seizes a hacked together Weed Cannon

Here’s an interesting hack. It’s a small pick-up truck with a Dope Cannon attached to it . Sure, it looks more like something you’d see in Syria , but this item was actually seized in Mexico where it was being used to fire 30 pound slugs of Marijuana over the border fence with the US. Usually when you fire artillery there isn’t someone on the target range trying to recover the projectile! The device uses a PVC barrel to guide the pot-pellet as it’s propelled by compressed air. Hey, swap out the drugs for an energy drink and that sounds pretty familiar. Our qualifying entry for the 2012 Red Bull Creation Contest was an energy drink cannon which used the same setup with a slightly smaller caliber. It makes us wonder if the drug cartel uses little parachutes like we did? Doesn’t it arouse suspicion to drive something like this around town? You’d think they’d use a box truck o...

Full article: http://hackaday.com/2013/03/01/mexican-law-enforcement-se...

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@PowSei » 05 Mar '13, 10am
Pickup Truck mit Dope Kanone: [link]
@DrPrettyBad » 05 Mar '13, 5am
Awesome. The hack, not the seizure. [link]
@w01fe » 04 Mar '13, 1am
Mexican law enforcement seizes a hacked together Weed Cannon [link] via @prismatic
@ataraxia_status » 03 Mar '13, 11am
I got into the wrong line of work I’m telling ya [link]
@Random_Robbie » 03 Mar '13, 11am
I thought you would find this interesting: Mexican law enforcement seizes a hacked together Weed Cannon - [link]
@Znegl » 02 Mar '13, 5am
Var der nogen der sagde appelsinkanon? [link]
@StevenJCrowley » 01 Mar '13, 10pm
Compressed-air gun can shoot 13-kilo packets over the border [link]
@eehbiertje » 01 Mar '13, 7pm
Mexican law enforcement seizes a hacked together Weed Cannon - [link] gheghe wat een idee..
@saralissner » 01 Mar '13, 4pm
@JoeEscalante you talked about this! “@inkxel: Mexican law enforcement seizes a cannon used to fire weed into the US" [link]
@inkxel » 01 Mar '13, 4pm
Mexican law enforcement seizes a Weed Cannon used to fire 30lb pellets of weed into the US...no, seriously. [link]
@BigMikeInAustin » 01 Mar '13, 3pm
Mexican law enforcement seizes DIY cannon to shoot weed over the fence: [link]
@shatt0r » 01 Mar '13, 3pm
Si, fliegen! [link]
@MirUnauffaellig » 01 Mar '13, 3pm
Wenn es um Drogen geht, macht den Mexikanern keiner so schnell etwas vor ... [link]
@evanskaufman » 01 Mar '13, 1pm
OMG I WANT ONE OF THESE RT @hackaday New post: Mexican law enforcement seizes a hacked together Weed Cannon [link]
@DaveMarcus » 01 Mar '13, 1pm
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@ericNtally » 01 Mar '13, 1pm
RT @hackaday: New post: Mexican law enforcement seizes a hacked together Weed Cannon [link]
@GeekHugger » 01 Mar '13, 1pm
Mexican law enforcement seizes a hacked together Weed Cannon [link] via @hackaday
@MossadBlackWolf » 01 Mar '13, 1pm
Mexican law enforcement seizes a hacked together Weed Cannon: Here’s an interesting hack. It’s a small pick-u... [link]
@hackaday » 01 Mar '13, 1pm
New post: Mexican law enforcement seizes a hacked together Weed Cannon [link]
@followed » 01 Mar '13, 1pm
Mexican law enforcement seizes a hacked together Weed Cannon [link]
@DIYEngineering » 01 Mar '13, 1pm
Mexican law enforcement seizes a hacked together Weed Cannon [link]
@hackaday » 01 Mar '13, 1pm
New post: Mexican law enforcement seizes a hacked together Weed Cannon [link]