Typical Mexican 'do nothing' attitude!

[Peikko 1,575]

The great white high: Mexican navy finds cocaine smuggled in sharks

One tonne of drug discovered in frozen carcasses on container ship as officials face gang wars over supply routes to US

The lengths to which drug smugglers will go to conceal their consignments was revealed when the Mexican navy said it had seized more than a tonne of cocaine stuffed inside frozen shark carcasses.

Masked naval officers cut open more than 20 carcasses filled with slabs of cocaine after checking a cargo ship in a container port in the state of Yucatan. X-ray machines and sniffer drugs led them to the stash.

"We are talking about more than a tonne of cocaine that was inside the ship," said navy commander Eduardo Villa yesterday . "Those in charge of the shipment said it was a conserving agent but after checks we confirmed it was cocaine."

Drug gangs tapping the lucrative US market have been forced to come up with more imaginative methods of getting drugs to North America such as in sealed beer cans, religious statues and furniture, in the face of a crackdown by the Mexican military.

President Felipe Calderon has tasked 45,000 troops and federal police with crushing the powerful smuggling cartels responsible for a surge in violence across the country that has spilled over into US states such as Arizona, creating concern in Washington.

At a remote mountaintop site in the northern state of Sinaloa yesterday, the Mexican navy showed reporters one of the largest methamphetamine labs ever found in the country with enough ephedrine to produce more than 40 tonnes of the drug, estimated to be worth $1.4bn (£900,000). But despite the efforts of government forces the gangs remain strong. Some 2,750 people have died in drug violence in Mexico this year, a rate similar to last year, when 6,300 were killed.

Led by Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, smugglers from the Pacific state of Sinaloa are fighting a turf war with rivals over smuggling routes into the US

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If you click the link, you will see that the 'cat testing' article (as seen on VJ yesterday) was the most popular story on their web site. I think that's hilarious

[pedroh 21]

cocaine is a hell of a drug

[Peikko 1,575]

Even sharks do it?

[pedroh 21]

see rick james in Chappelle show

[almaty 19]

damn, and i thought it was only the land sharks into it

[mawilson 2,133]

I have an idea!

Smuggle cocaine in *living* sharks! Turn a living shark into a radio-controlled automaton by placing

electrodes in the shark's brain, then simply by pressing keys on a computer a mile away steer the shark

in the right direction.

Biologist tries to steer a shark, nose first

At a dissection table, a marine biologist is taking the first steps toward building a remote-control shark.

Funded by the US Department of Defense, Jelle Atema wants to understand a shark's brain well enough to take it over -- to get it to obey commands to smell and sense what's going on in the water around it.

''I want to sit here in my office, call up Charlie Shark out in Hawaii, and say, 'Go follow that wake,' " said Atema, who splits his time between Boston University and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. Ultimately, he said, a shark could help the military by surveying hard-to-reach areas for dangerous chemicals or other hazards.

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[Chica Yeyé 41]

stoned sharks to guard the coasts.... interesting....

[Peikko 1,575]

This is like a song by Zappa

[mawilson 2,133]

If you click the link, you will see that the 'cat testing' article (as seen on VJ yesterday) was the most popular story on their web site. I think that's hilarious

[Peikko 1,575]

That's why then. Cute kitty

[R and F 34]

I thought this was a post about "mexicans" and that "they do nothing" (lazy) attitude.

I said, Oh, man this post is going to be blocked and then deleted right away.

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

new pic for HAL

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[Ken y Leidys 20]

I thought this was a post about "mexicans" and that "they do nothing" (lazy) attitude.

I thought the same. Here is a "Gas Station" in the western flank of the Copper Canyon region leading to Sinaloa, Mexico:

Here is the local "Tow Posse" helping a stuck motorist in slick mud (Batopilas, Chihuahua):

Here is what it looks like when you need to get your grain to the farm w/o a pickup truck (Tubares, Sinaloa):