Suspicious behavior leads to tanker car filled with weed

~Zen~ · Jul 14, 2010

I've heard of gas tanks filled with packages of pot, and been offered some in San Diego. What garbage. If pot was legal, we wouldn't have to deal with marijuana that has been poisoned by submersion in a tanker full of oil. This is criminally insane on many levels.

Crews have removed thousands of pounds of marijuana found concealed in a railroad tank car that entered the U.S. from Mexico this month.

Fire Capt. Steve Ruda said 78 bundles of pot were removed Monday from the gooey inside of the petroleum rail tanker.

The retrieval operation in a rail yard southeast of downtown Los Angeles was halted at about 10 a.m. Monday because something suspicious was found inside and a bomb squad was summoned, police said.

The bomb squad set a charge and detonated the small cylindrical object at 5 p.m.

"The explosion created enough destructive force to destroy the suspicious cylinder but not to destroy the integrity of the container," said Fire Capt. Steve Ruda, referring to the tank car.

Crews determined the situation was safe and continued removing the marijuana bundles until the tank car was empty.

The marijuana discovery occurred after officers tried to halt a vehicle traveling erratically east of downtown late Sunday and the driver refused to stop. The chase ended near the rail yard in Commerce, where three men jumped out of the car and were quickly arrested.

Officers noticed an oily substance on the suspects' clothing and found bundles of marijuana coated with oil in the car.

The officers were then led to the nearby tank car, police Det. Gus Villanueva said.

The tanker was moved about a half-block to a safer area, and additional bundles were found inside.

Investigators used Fire Department ladders to reach the hatch atop the tanker. Marijuana removed from inside was lowered to the ground by bucket.

Two firefighters who experienced rapid heartbeats while involved in the operation were taken to a hospital for precautionary exams.

The tank car, owned by the Chicago-based Union Tank Car Co., crossed the border into the United States on July 4 and reached Commerce on July 10 with documentation marking it as empty, said Aaron Hunt, spokesman for Union Pacific Railroad's western region. The car's point of origin was not confirmed, and a phone message left with Union Tank Car was not immediately returned.
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skip · Jul 14, 2010

If it don't smell right, don't buy it!

I've come across cannabis before that obviously was smuggled in via a toxic container. It's very unhealthy to consume anything like that.

Obviously this is work of Mexican gangs.

People need to stop buying their shit.

rollingalong · Jul 14, 2010

i cant even believe that people still buy that crap that comes up from mexico...i havnt seen it in 20 years at least

junglejack · Jul 15, 2010

http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2010/07/police_check_on_cedar_grove_bu.html

A pot farm they call it- -
4 plants- -jeeeezus, this is 2010 -
what a travisty

Feles Mala · Jul 15, 2010

Wow, that's sad. A waste of good weed

BoeJiglin · Jul 15, 2010

some guy at the national gathering gave us some pot that smelled like gas or oil or whatever, needless to say we did not smoke it,lol

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