World’s Smelliest Lawn Jockeys
February 5th, 2009 by Perry
15 people have been arrested in Los Angeles in connection with concrete-donkey-shaped lawn ornaments filled with $1.5 million of weed. The LA Times reported 200 burros were discovered at the Port of Long Beach, which were hidden in a shipment from Mexico, headed to a fictitious business in Fontana.
Authorities may have been tipped off, or simply realized that no one would actually want a statue of a Mexican donkey on their lawn, unless it was 3-foot tall, hollowed out and filled with marijuana.
Most of the suspects are being held on immigration violations, although you have to give the cartels originality points. I wonder if the new “trojan burro” policy was a mandate from the top, or the work of an ambitious go-getter, like the inventor of the drug sub.
Or maybe someone throughout the term “drug mule” one too many times, and things got literal. Either way, I’d have to say it’s a step back in terms of technology, creativity and design.
[img via LA Times]
