Drones are on the rise in the drug world with smugglers using them to shift product across borders, into prisons - and soon to a street near you.

“Surprising absolutely no one …”

  • @library_napper
    1•6 months ago

    Officials also seized 14kg (31lbs) of hashish, 8kg (18lbs) of marijuana, more than €157,300 (£135,527) in cash, and six large aerial drones.

    Holy crap. So, umm, what happens if snatch a drone carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars? Finders keepers?

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62040790

    • @jarfil@beehaw.org
      10•6 months ago

      what happens if snatch a drone carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars?

      Run.

      If the owner finds you… like if they have a camera recording and the GPS location… you might get some free bullets on top of it.

      Spain has some relatively strict gun control. That doesn’t mean someone controlling the smuggling of millions of € in drugs, can’t pay a few grand for some of his “acquaintances” to fly all the way over, get his property back “by whatever means”, and fly back the next day.