Low Tech Smuggling

Who needs an underground tunnel when you have medieval technology?

• Surveillance video shows drug smugglers using an old invention as a new way to move marijuana across the border from Mexico to Arizona.

  National Guard troops operating a remote surveillance system at the Naco Border Patrol Station say they observed several people preparing a catapult and launching packages over the fence late last week.

  A Mexican army officer says the 3-yard tall catapult was found about 20 yards from the U.S. border on a flatbed towed by a sports utility vehicle.

  The officer says the catapult was capable of launching 4.4 pounds of marijuana at a time. He says soldiers seized 35 pounds of pot, the vehicle and the catapult.

We're going to call this a distraction ploy as another semi tractor load comes rolling over the border along with a few rail cars underground.