A crude but powerful homemade cannon consisting of a plastic pipe, a metal tank, and an old car engine, was confiscated by authorities in the Mexican border city of Mexicali last week.

The Houston Chronicle talked to a cartel trafficker this weekend, "in an interview arranged by intermediaries on the condition neither his name nor the location of his Texas visit be published." Anonymous Trafficker has either witnessed the most sadistic crimes imaginable, or is totally fucking with us:

The FAA doesn't have important registration information for some 119,000 airplanes—about one-third of all planes in the U.S—thanks to missing or invalid forms. But they're just planes, right! I mean, what could possibly happen?

Cancun Mayor Gregorio Sanchez was forced to withdraw his candidacy for governor of the state of Quintana Roo after being arrested on organized crime charges and accused of protecting drug gangs. Bloomberg doesn't seem so bad now, does he? [AP]