Comments on: Smuggling Drugs with a Remote-control Helicopter

By: ted

ted — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:27:12 +0000

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

By: sw

sw — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:14:53 +0000

beats the traditional smuggling via bodily orifices!

By: Nathan Miller

Nathan Miller — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:30:43 +0000

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?

By: jodie

jodie — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:22:50 +0000

hopefully they won’t combine it with the helicopter with the .45 attached to it that was posted here a few weeks ago. because, yikes!

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:15:49 +0000

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.

By: shawnisboring

shawnisboring — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:50:34 +0000

guards playing

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:34:39 +0000

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.