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marmar

(77,091 posts)
Tue Sep 29, 2015, 08:07 AM Sep 2015

Fido seems exceptionally mellow. And he keeps raiding the bag of Cheetohs.


FLYING HIGH: 26 Pounds Of Weed Falls From Sky, Destroys Dog House


Maya Donnelly awoke to what sounded like thunder in the early morning hours, but dismissed it as a typical monsoon storm and went back to sleep.

Later that morning, she looked in the carport at her home in Nogales, near the U.S.-Mexico border, and saw pieces of wood on the ground. She found a bulky bundle wrapped in black plastic.

Inside was roughly 26 pounds of marijuana — a package that authorities say was worth $10,000 and likely was dropped there accidentally by a drug smuggler's aircraft.

"It's all right on top of our dog's house," Donnelly said of the Sept. 8 incident, which was first reported by the Nogales International newspaper. "It just made a perfectly round hole through our carport."

Living near the border, Donnelly said she assumed the object was drugs. She immediately called her husband, Bill, who told her to call 911. ..........................(more)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marijuana-falls-from-sky_56097dffe4b0af3706dd2d5e?utm_hp_ref=weird-news



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