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Well this goes right to the issue of our border security doesn't it. Ricin or Meth? Collision near Calexico and then headed north, they had to come across somewhere why didn't they find that stuff at the border?

Border IN-security as many here have termed it. Hire "Astrid and Ebony", 21-year-old-meth-addicts-in-dire-need, to transport your ricin lab north - if they get caught, they're simply written off as meth addicts.

Maybe they were meant to get caught on the highway, they were 'throw-away' or a decoy.

I worked at the Wellton Justice Court (Arizona's) in the 1970's, my grown daughter invited a gal who she met on the phone to visit me, thought we would like each other, so the gal showed up every 3 months and stayed the night.

I couldn't understand why, figured she needed a free place to stay.

The last time she came, I walked to the car with her and she was in a station wagon, with a dangerous load of ugly 2 foot boulders........for her mom's garden.

At work, I mentioned to one of the cops, the strange fact that this gal kept visiting me and I didn't know why, she said she was going from Los Angeles to Tucson.

When he heard about the rocks, he was all excited, seems that the dope smugglers use this trick. They want to have the vehicle stopped.

When the decoy is stopped, the cops are all busy checking it out and the real smuggler just drives right on past.

Yes, even in the 1970's it was a major bust, if they could catch you. Mary and I were stopped, in my 55 Chev wagon (it had bad shocks), we had just picked up the frozen meat from a bull, at the butcher shop. So it was a complete, all out search and check with the butcher.

Imagine the cops joy, all those lovely wrapped packages of meat...LOL

When it was over, the officer told me that I couldn't stick my license plate in the window, so the next month when we went to Yuma, I tied it on with baling wire, and he stopped me again, but we were busy keeping a full grown goat in the back seat and he kinda lost interest in us.

The real moral of the story, the 2 gals did a good job, imagine it, Hazmat and the feds, local and state cops, you could have driven past them with a tank and they would have missed you.

A minor fender bender, not bad enough to keep the car from running, but enough to insure that they got stopped.

Ruth