Shipping box used to plug gap in Arizona-Mexico border wall topples ov

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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey's $6 million plan to plug gaps in the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border with shipping containers is off to an embarrassing start after one of the 8,800-pound containers toppled over. The U.S. Border Patrol had notified Ducey's office Sunday night that the shipping containers were not fully secured. There was some speculation that weather might have caused the container to fall. Ducey's office, however, suspects sabotage. He noted that the felled section hadn't been bolted down. (Of course he does.) "The gauge on the steel is not the thickest in the world, anyone with a little elbow grease and a torch would blow right through it, and they're not the heaviest things in the world either when they're empty," contractor Luke Crosthwaite said. "Anyone who has fabrication knowledge can definitely get through these things."