Smuggling drugs like marijuana and cocaine.

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Smuggling drugs like marijuana and cocaine from Mexico into the U.S. is usually a pretty discreet affair involving elaborate underground tunnels or "mules" who hide drugs in body cavities. But some suspected smugglers recently tried a different approach: using ramps to drive this SUV over a 14-foot-tall fence along the U.S.-Mexico border in California. (As you can see, the jeep didn't quite make it, and the smugglers fled and have not been caught.) Mexican cartels smuggle in an estimated $7 billion a year in...