×
Login
Forgot password?
Don't have an Account?
Register Now!
Forgot Password
206. US Border Patrol
The US Border Patrol is encountering more problems
drug dealers from Mexico. A few weeks ago,
dealer ran over a border patrol agent. The
, standing in the middle of a two-lane road,
motioned the dealer’s vehicle to stop. Instead, the
ran over the agent, killing him, and then
back across the border into Mexico. He has
been caught yet. Such incidents are on the
, said one agent. The dealers are getting braver,
they rarely get caught. “Any agent who tries
stop us deserves to die,” said one convicted
dealer.
The dealers are always devising new tricks
get their drugs into the US. They start
fires near the border to distract agents. They
cattle on border ranches so that American ranchers
not call agents about suspicious activity. They use
to blow up bridges so agents cannot follow
. They dig tunnels that start in Mexico and
with buildings on US soil.
Their newest trick
to try to behead agents who ride on
(all-terrain vehicles). When an agent drives into a
trap, he activates a "clothes line" wire. This
stretches tightly across the agent's path, at neck
. It could slice right through his neck. The
of Homeland Security quickly issued a new protective
for its ATV riders--a plastic neck guard. Using
simulation, the department determined that the neck guard
prevent beheading; however, critical injuries—including a broken neck—are
possible.
“These 'clothes lines' are not a big
,” said a department official. He criticized the media
making a mountain out of a molehill. “Wait
an agent is actually beheaded—then you’ll have a
,” he said to a group of reporters.
Check
Hint
OK