Posted on 01/22/2007 11:30:41 PM PST by NormsRevenge
TIJUANA, Mexico - The police department has issued about 60 slingshots to officers in the violent border city of Tijuana, where soldiers confiscated police weapons two weeks ago on allegations of collusion with drug traffickers.
Municipal police spokesman Fernando Bojorquez said Monday that the slingshots, along with bags of ballbearings, were given to officers patrolling areas of the city visited by tourists.
Tijuana's police force of 2,000 officers has been without guns since Jan. 5, but some patrol alongside armed state police.
President Felipe Calderon sent 3,300 soldiers and federal police to Tijuana at the beginning of January to hunt down drug gangs. The soldiers swept police stations and took officers' guns for inspection amid allegations by federal investigators that a corrupt network of officers supports smugglers who traffic drugs into the U.S. The weapons are still being checked.
About 100 police demonstrated outside Tijuana town hall on Monday demanding the return of their guns. "The arms are our tools for work," said officer Juan Manuel Nieves. "Do they want more police to be killed?"
More than 300 people were slain in Tijuana last year including 13 police officers.
Did they run out of spitballs ?
Beat me to it!!! LOL!
They left out the part where the policemen had their hands tied behind their backs and THEN were issued slingshots. :)
(I'm trying NOT to imagine how you'd "issue a spitball")
Actually, the price of sixty paint ball guns and ammo was prohibitive.
The Duke boys got dynamite arrows when their guns were taken away.
Now if only we could get the criminals to arm themselves in like fashion...
Mexican RPG's.
Ok ... I'm ready for the punch line now?
Hey, it's all ball bearings these days.
More than 300 people were slain in Tijuana last year including 13 police officers.
How can that be? Mexico has some of the tightest gun control laws in the world! < /cynicism>
We used to hunt rabbits with Whammos and ball bearings when I was a kid. Worked real good.
Ted Nugent did it too.
"My first kill ever was with a Whammo slingshot," Mr. Nugent said. "I was 10 years old, and it was in a park near Redford Township in Michigan. I killed it with a marble, and I took it home, and my mom and dad showed me how
to dress it and cook it.
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