Update… let’s make this the caption contest this week as well as an open thread! –ed
Here is something you do not see everyday, a marijuana cannon! Yes! A home-made cannon using a plastic pipe and compressed air from a used, metal tank launched wacky-weed across the Border Fence from Mexico into the United States. The Associated Press reports that the Mexican Border Police captured the marijuana cannon in Mexicali, Mexico just south of California. The pot cannon fired cylinders loaded with about 30 pounds of marijuana across the border. Another sign that drug smugglers and Mexican drug cartels are becoming more innovative.
Caption this photo!
Update: Winners are below the fold!
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| 1st Place! Chris in N.Va. “Legal non-assault-weapon version: single-shot, no high-capacity magazine.” |
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| 2nd Place! flyingmonkey “I wonder what they used for a propellant.” Maybe something refried? |
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| 3rd Place! rodney dill “The new Government Motors Chevrolet Choomster – out this fall.” |
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This is an Open Thread piece today. What the heck, it is the weekend and we can all use a break! I am sure that many people will be focused on the sequester spending cuts or the Woodward-Gate stories. Most folks pay more attention to how big Kim Kardashian′s butt is becoming now that she is pregnant. So if you have been dying to comment on these or other stories, then feel free to do so. Even I need a day off from bashing Barack Hussein Obama now and then!
I like the marijuana cannon. It is one of those things that tinkerers like to talk about as they gather in their garage workshops sharing a few beers, and maybe the odd doobie or two. I can recall my friends and I constructing home-made mortars out of empty Pringles containers that launch tennis balls with a dash of lighter fluid. And who can forget the infamous potato guns? A well built one could fire a crab apple right through your average metal garage door with just a whiff of hair spray.
So kudos to the Mexican Border Police for the capture of the dreaded marijuana cannon near Mexicali, Mexico. The improvised device was used to hurl 30-pound packets of loco-weed across the border fence into the United States. Built upon a truck using a plastic pipe and a metal tank to hold compressed air, the pot cannon shows the clever ways that ordinary people can come up with to get a job done. Too bad the bozo in the White House is clueless about getting anything accomplished.
March 1st, 2013 at 8:26 am
Hey Micky, I wonder if Maxine Waters got her numbers about sequestration costing America 170 Million jobs from BTT? I’ll bet she did!
March 1st, 2013 at 10:14 am
Evolution is a wonderful thang
Those Aztecs have come all the way from hurling Thai Sticks from Tijuana to San Diego with an atlatl, to crafting a PVC Howitzer to spit huge tampons of Michoacan over the fence to Nogales.
I wonder what they used for a propellant.
March 1st, 2013 at 1:42 pm
Tomorrow, March 2nd, will sequestration cuts make the internet stop working? Or at least slow down me connection speed? Goodness I hope not.
When you read a story about Mexican cops seizing anything related to drug trafficking it means somebody didn’t pay their kickbacks. Mexican cops don’t do stuff in the interests of justice. Wonder what they’ll do with that shop class experiment in the back of that sharp looking orange pickup.
It’s March 1st so now I can take down all my black history month celebration decorations.
March 1st, 2013 at 1:52 pm
“I wonder what they used for a propellant.”
Hah !
I used to work in a warehouse in L.A. full of Mexicans.
We took a few of those huge rubber bands they use in furniture containers to hold the pieces to the wall and made a huge slingshot out of them.
I didnt know about this till I walked past a docked container and little Jesse Ramirez came flying out of it 10 feet off the ground like a bat outta hell.
He landed pretty hard, but dammit if we didnt laugh til we sht ourselves and cried.
Back in my hustling days, I knew a guy who flew his coke over the border in RC planes.
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Andy, yeah, going senile must run in his family.
March 1st, 2013 at 9:46 pm
caption:
Long shaft that fires heavy loads – sounds and looks like a sex toy that bathhouse barry used to dream about when he was getting stoned.
March 2nd, 2013 at 1:08 am
Jose’Great Idea we get bigger tubes and launch our com-padres,were going to be rich!!!
March 2nd, 2013 at 8:18 am
Sandra Fluke shows off her truck sporting her new condom cannon for dispensing contraceptives.
March 2nd, 2013 at 10:11 pm
February 28, 2013 — In a dire warning for the
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/tygrrrr-express/2013/feb/28/dire-warning-obama-sequester-could-lead-cuts-hyper/
February 28, 2013 — In a dire warning for the
American people, President Obama insisted that the sequester cuts that are not really cuts would lead to a severe cut in presidential hyperbole.
An angry Obama insisted that although his entire presidency has been rhetoric, there would be no more flowery words left for Americans once fictional budget cuts take place March 1st. His lips would be sealed tighter than Belinda Carlisle and the rest of the Gogos.
House Speaker John Boehner insisted that there would not be an actual cut in Obama’s hyperbole, since this would be virtually impossible according to the laws of nature. Yet there might be a slowing in the rate of growth of his tiresome rhetoric, which is enough to cause the White House concern.
Obama insisted that although he knows the American people are tired of hearing him say the same things over and over again, he needs to keep talking. If Americans went even a single day without hearing his platitudes, slogans, bromides, and meanderings, it could cause a great sense of national malaise; there would be an incredible void if he went silent. He needs to let us know he cares, which is impossible if heartless Republicans confuse closing loopholes with him closing his piehole.
Obama pointed out that unless he reminded Americans that “the time for talk is over,” they would never know when that would be. To make matters worse, it would be impossible for Americans to judge results and “move forward” unless the Obama campaign explained to people what that meant. Sometimes people do not feel he is doing an excellent job, and without constant self-promotion that message could be lost in a fog of confusing things such as metrics and facts.
With a shortage of words, he could no longer say “let me be clear,” “crystal clear,” or “perfectly clear.” He would just have to be clear. There would be no room to say “It goes without saying” anymore. He would just have to get to the point and say it, or even worse for him, not say it.
Obama emphasized that budget cuts could even be extended to his meaningful gestures. His pointing of his finger and his tilting of his head at a precise angle to portray meaning could be sacrificed in favor of a standard grimace.
After receiving condolences from the liberal media, Fox News shifted to a press conference with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Cantor had the temerity to point out that if Obama would just do an ounce of actual real work, there would be no need for so many speeches. Obama was tempted to refer to Cantor as a racist, sexist, bigoted homophobe, but the sequester hyperbole cut forced him to choose only two of the four typical liberal lines of attack. Unable to make any hard choices and decide which words to cut,
Obama called Cantor a “racaphobe.” Cantor shrugged.
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid insisted in the interest of fairness that Obama be allowed to just take extra words from other people who talk more than he does. The problem is this option had been explored by Simpson-Bowles back in 2010, and not one single person fitting the description was found.
Michelle Obama consoled her husband by pointing out that he could still do absolutely nothing even if he would be unable to talk about doing something while doing nothing. President Obama insisted it would not be the same. Yet just to make sure, he took in eighteen holes of golf while sulking over being free to be but not free to talk about his hardworking stressful life.
Valerie Jarrett then gave him some ice cream, tucked him into bed, kissed his forehead, and read him two-thirds of his favorite bedtime story, “The Little Prince.”
While these teleprompter prepared speaking cuts that are not really cuts will be devastating to his ego, the American people seem to be adjusting just fine. They actually like their politicians doing more and saying less.
This has been the sequestration hyperbole report.
March 3rd, 2013 at 1:33 am
caption:
Obama wins the Nobel Piece Prize.
March 3rd, 2013 at 8:20 am
“I wonder what they used for a propellant.”
Maybe something refried?
March 3rd, 2013 at 9:25 pm
“No officer, I’m just practicing for Pumpkin Chunkin.”
March 4th, 2013 at 7:18 am
…and comes with 4 snow tires for the coke addicts as well.
March 4th, 2013 at 7:21 am
George Takei: “Oh My!”
March 4th, 2013 at 7:21 am
The new Government Motors Chevrolet Choomster – out this fall.
March 4th, 2013 at 9:01 am
Obama: “Due to sequestration, the Army will have to replace tanks with mobile cannons like this.”
March 4th, 2013 at 9:53 am
Now THAT’s a bong!
March 4th, 2013 at 9:55 am
Legal non-assault-weapon version: single-shot, no high-capacity magazine.
March 4th, 2013 at 9:57 am
U.S. Postal Service test new prototype high-tech, “green” air-mail delivery system.
March 4th, 2013 at 10:01 am
White House Press Room takes delivery of new smoke machine.
March 4th, 2013 at 10:20 am
Choom One being delivered to White House loading dock under tight security.
March 4th, 2013 at 3:11 pm
Prototype for my idea to send Illegals back to Mexico via Circus Canon.
March 4th, 2013 at 3:26 pm
The ban on assault weapons has caused criminals to improvise.
March 5th, 2013 at 5:01 am
Thanks, A good picture but it just didn’t seem to generate many ideas for captions for me…