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| Spanish police find 'drugs' sub | |
| 2006-08-14 | |
A submarine which police say may have been used for cocaine smuggling has been found floating off Spain's north-western coast. It was spotted by a member of the public in an inlet along the rugged coastline on Sunday. No drugs were found on board the vessel, but it is now being dismantled at a shipyard in Moana, near Vigo.
Jaime Gonzalez, a journalist in the north-western city of Santiago de Compostela, told the BBC World Service's Europe Today programme that the region was well-known as a gateway for drugs into Europe. While submarines are not known to have been used for drug trafficking in Spain, they have been used for this purpose in Colombia. "It could take drugs from a ship in the ocean and take them to the coast without being seen," Mr Gonzalez said. "There has been nothing like this before in Spain. It is an example of how narco-traffickers are advancing in technology." Mr Gonzalez said it was thought that the submarine could have been built in southern Spain, in Andalucia, and brought to the north-western region of Galicia by road. He said one theory was that the vessel was undergoing tests when a technical problem arose. The owners may have been planning to return to it, he added, if the police had not got there first. | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #6 A cocaine sub sounds devilishly expensive to operate. I'm with Seafarious. Stay with the baking soda. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-08-14 18:00 |
| #5 Some drums of vinegar---check! Mike---Great song parody! The topic spoke to you, and ye did will, laddie. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul at Anchorge Airport 2006-08-14 17:54 |
| #4 Shopping list: Twenty 55-gallon drums of baking powder... check! |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-08-14 17:32 |
| #3 Will they do a cartoon based on Mike song too? It could be mighty psychedelic, depending if the right type of drug is smuggled. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-08-14 17:17 |
| #2 Bravo! |
| Posted by: 6 2006-08-14 17:15 |
| #1 In a town in northern Spain, Lived a man who sailed to sea, And he tried to smuggle drugs, Using home-made submarines, So we built a boat from scratch, To try to earn a bit of green, And we dove beneath the waves, In our home-made submarine, We all live in a home-made submarine, home-made submarine, home-made submarine, We all live in a home-made submarine, home-made submarine, home-made submarine, So we went to Home Depot, Made our hull from PVC, Got some Krylon spray paint black, For our home-made submarine, We all live in a home-made submarine, home-made submarine, home-made submarine, We all live in a home-made submarine, home-made submarine, home-made submarine, Once the cocaine's all aboard, And the "Christmas Tree" shows green, Hook the wires to a Sears Die-Hard, And dive our home-made submarine, We all live in a home-made submarine, home-made submarine, home-made submarine, We all live in a home-made submarine, home-made submarine, home-made submarine . . . |
| Posted by: Mike 2006-08-14 15:26 |