Smuggling Drugs with a Remote-control Helicopter

Bah – 20 years or more ago I wrote a draft plot for a novel about using low-flying drones to smuggle drugs across the US-Mexico border rather like a scaled down V1.

In this case, however, it strikes me as a bit too likely to attract attention. I reckon a gas mortar firing tennis-balls full of drugs would be a lot cheaper and less likely to get caught.

Not a bad way to deliver drugs, just about any remote heli would work. You wouldnt even need a very sophisticated way to attach them, a piece of duct tape would work just fine. To carry a cell phone however, you would need a pretty hardy mini heli.

Tennis ball idea works too. I know Ive launched some pretty far using a potato gun when I was a kid.

This article doesn’t present a group of people who seem terribly alarmed about this fact. Like “Oh well, another smuggling.”

@jodie – what if it had been a gun the copter was smuggling?

No, sw, nothing beats that. You simply have to try it.