Necessity is the mother of invention (1 Viewer)

[CT Saints Fan]

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Tipped off by three plastic pipes mysteriously skimming the ocean’s surface, authorities seized a homemade submarine packed with 3 tons of cocaine off Costa Rica’s Pacific coast.

Four men traveled inside the 50-foot wood and fiberglass craft, breathing through the pipes. The craft sailed along at about 7 mph, just six feet beneath the surface, Security Minister Fernando Berrocal said Sunday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15811689/

 

[Jayden]

Wow! I'd like to see that sub. A home made sub that is 50 feet long? I need a visual here.

 

[SaintJ]

50 tons of cocaine?

Good thing they caught these guys, they'd have hit New York City by nightfall.

 

[antipop]

wow, that should inflate the price of cocaine substantially.....

 

[CT Saints Fan]

50 tons of cocaine?

Good thing they caught these guys, they'd have hit New York City by nightfall.

That was 3 tons.

 

[jpcdolphan]

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall for the Cartel's brainstorming session for this one!

 

[SaintJ]

That was 3 tons.

OK, tomorrow morning, then.

 

[Jazzbo]

Necessity? No. These are the Mothers of Invention:

 

[Tapxe]

That was 3 tons.

Yeah, but the 50 tons floated by in a fishing boat while every Coastie in 100 miles raced to get a picture next to the sub with 3 tons...

 

[mrFuggles]

After the Soviet Union collapsed I recall some of the cartels were in the market to buy old soviet subs to ship their cocaine, I guess it didn't work out for them.