Drug Rocket Fails to Take Off

Fox News ^ | 7/5/2005 | Fox News

[GeorgiaFreeper]

Drug dealing really may be rocket science.

Two accused methamphetamine traffickers apparently rigged up their car so that if cops closed in, a small rocket carrying their stash would pop up from the trunk and launch itself far from the long arm of the law.

For some reason, the rocket never achieved liftoff when Missouri State Highway Patrol (search) officers pulled over Michael Ray Sullivan, 41, and Joseph C. Seidl, 39, both of Kentucky, on June 24 in Kingdom City.

[GeorgiaFreeper]

You have to admire their ingenuity :)

[TheBigB]

For some reason, the rocket never achieved liftoff

For some reason. :-)

[Dead Corpse]

Obviously sampling their own product if they came up with something like that...

[ManMountain]

You would think that they wouldn't have had any problems setting something like that up! I mean, It's not Rocket scien.... Dang. lol.

[GeorgiaFreeper]

Far more intriguing was what was in the trunk: three dud pipe bombs and a "hobby-style" rocket, three to four feet long, all packed with meth worth up to $145,000.

Ledford explained that a web of ropes and pulleys lifted the rocket into launch position when the trunk lid was opened. The rocket could then be ignited from inside the car using the dashboard cigarette lighter.

Cops are pretty certain the rocket was meant to be an escape pod for the drugs, but Ledford diplomatically declined to speculate.

[retrokitten]

Cops are pretty certain the rocket was meant to be an escape pod for the drugs, but Ledford diplomatically declined to speculate.

I just can't even comment. I'm laughing so hard I can hardly type.

[GeorgiaFreeper]

Could have been a little more interesting if the rocket was rigged like a mini-missle with explosives. That would kinda make sense. Depending on what the drugs weighed, it would have not taken them far even if it did manage to launch.

[dinodino]

I'm cracking up!

Crystal meth must TRULY rot your brain if these guys thought that this was a good idea, and that a cop is not going to raise his eyebrows when the trunk pops open during a pursuit and a frickin' ROCKET launches out of it!

Absolutely amazing.

[TheBigB]

Cops are pretty certain the rocket was meant to be an escape pod for the drugs

Some type of Big Pharma conspiracy at work here... :^)

[retrokitten]

What would have been even funnier is if it had launched and went a whole 3 feet and dropped to the ground.

[cripplecreek]

[retrokitten]

Some type of Big Pharma conspiracy at work here...

LOL!! Big Pharma is everywhere. Even in meth addicts rocket escape pods.

[GeorgiaFreeper]

Think they were using the Bandito?

[robertpaulsen]

"and launch itself far from the long arm of the law."

"Houston, we have achieved interstate commerce."

[marblehead17]

ping

[clamper1797]

All they need is a wide mouth gas can with gas in it. Place the bag of meth in the can ... voila The plastic bag containing the contraband dissolves with the meth in it.

[retrokitten]

Probably more like this...

[socal_parrot]

the rocket never achieved liftoff

Too much drugs sometimes has that effect.

Or so I've heard.

[Xenophobic Alien]

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[Drew68]

You have to admire their ingenuity :)

It is outside the box thinking like this that makes America great!