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I’d rather look gay than sweat [emoji23]
You don’t need shorts to look gay Jerry. [emoji1787]
I’d rather look gay than sweat [emoji23]
Sounds like a nice vacation . Dont shower for a week . No teeth brushing . Have only 1 shitty meal a day while you hang on the side walk so you can blend in . Sounds like a dream vacation ?Another one of these threads........................OK
Listen, if you are down there pulling Quads, a toyhauler, toys etc etc, in a new Truck with US Plates, just assume you may be a target.
The story makes it act like they were taken to a Warehouse by the Cartel and chainsaw cut up into small pieces. No....... they got jacked. Plain and Simple.
If you showboat down there, you are asking for trouble. I'm sorry, you need to blend in. Leave the toys at home. Blend in, Be Humble. Dress appropriately, that means no shorts for guys, (Puta), NO Fucking Flip Flops. Use your head. Keep your $1000 iphone in your pocket.
I'm sure a Go Fund me has been setup for the idiots who were too cheap in this story to buy Mex Insurance.
Another one of these threads........................OK
Listen, if you are down there pulling Quads, a toyhauler, toys etc etc, in a new Truck with US Plates, just assume you may be a target.
The story makes it act like they were taken to a Warehouse by the Cartel and chainsaw cut up into small pieces. No....... they got jacked. Plain and Simple.
If you showboat down there, you are asking for trouble. I'm sorry, you need to blend in. Leave the toys at home. Blend in, Be Humble. Dress appropriately, that means no shorts for guys, (Puta), NO Fucking Flip Flops. Use your head. Keep your $1000 iphone in your pocket.
I'm sure a Go Fund me has been setup for the idiots who were too cheap in this story to buy Mex Insurance.
Or you just go somewhere else. Why the fuck am I gonna go to Mexico and hang out on a beach and not be able to wear shorts and flip flops. I’m a free man, Im not gonna go someplace where my choice of shoes might get me or my family killed. Fuck Mexico. I grew up in AZ and have been to Mexico A LOT but not anymore. I love the Mexican people, I speak fluent Spanish but Mexico is a free for all. I know people that have lived in Tijuana their entire life that got out and won’t go back.
From what I understand the helo was not with a team just spectating flying to low above the TTs and hit a power lineWe heard that info from Weatherman, but it was unclear if the helicopter was part of a race crew and never found out this info until you just posted it.
From what I understand the helo was not with a team just spectating flying to low above the TTs and hit a power line
This is Funny. I have 40 employees, 90% are first generation in the US from Mexico. I wear shorts here in NM from the first 80 degree day in spring until the first snow in the fall. There has never been one that's said anything about it. After the first few triple digit days of summer, about half of them are in shorts. There's only a couple I can think of that I've never seen in shorts in the summer, but they are the mid 20's guys that wear boots that curl up at the tip like they're elves or something.Yup. You ever see Mexican guys wearing shorts? They believe that is reserved for the putas to show their legs. Not men.
Cut Off Jeans for swimming are the exception.
You do all inclusive , stay on the property, and only go to and from the airport on a shuttle where the driver and passengers are logged/chartered by the resort. Cabo is about it even with those restrictions that you have a chance.At the 07 Baja 1k when we're kidnapped they had a helo crash during the race they say it was some top level drug guys in the helo that got killed on the way to the morgue with a police escort they were ambushed and had a shootout killing some of the police and taking the narco bodies
Colima was never safe. I have family in Tecoman and remember the days of CDS and los zetas as a kid. At the end of the day, it all came down to who you knew and what they were involved with.My closest friend of some 40 plus years has family in Mexico. He has traveled there frequently to see them since we met. He repeatedly asked Cindy and I to go with him and we would see the "real" Mexico. We relented about 12 years ago and went.
We loved it, fell in love with the "real" Mexican People and they treated us like family. We stayed with his family on their properties and could not have had a better time.
We returned 3 times. This was in the State of Colima.
My friends older brother lives down there part time, he was in the travel industry for 30 years and consulted for hotel chains and other resort properties.
About two years ago we were at a party with my friend and his brother, and one of the family who had come up to visit.
The conversation was that it was no longer safe to come down, and that, while we would always be welcome and they would see to our safety as best they could, the family (and it is a large one) would not suggest we come back.
My friend hasn't been back, either.
It is a damn shame.
If you have ever had a chance to get to know the Mexican people as I have, you cannot help but fall in love with the culture and their hospitality. Once they know who you are, and if you come with no attitude, they bring you in and you are never forgotten. This "Mexico" isn't one you see from cruise ships or the tourist enclaves, this is the real deal.
I miss those people, I miss them a lot, and I hope the day comes that we can go back and see them again, but I am not optimistic that is will happen again in my lifetime.
The corruption in government down there has increased dramatically in the past 20 years and long established families with businesses are used to dealing with it...but not at this level. They are the people that keep the economy running down there, and they are losing their asses right now. The businesses that are part of the tourism industry are struggling mightily, and the government makes them pay their employees even when they have been laid off...in other words the business pays the unemployment check directly.
Insane.
I have memories and stories of experiences that would blow your minds but they are not to be shared on the internet, sorry to be so cryptic but it is what it is. We still exchange Christmas cards with several of the folks down there.
It is a damn shame.
This is Funny. I have 40 employees, 90% are first generation in the US from Mexico. I wear shorts here in NM from the first 80 degree day in spring until the first snow in the fall. There has never been one that's said anything about it. After the first few triple digit days of summer, about half of them are in shorts. There's only a couple I can think of that I've never seen in shorts in the summer, but they are the mid 20's guys that wear boots that curl up at the tip like they're elves or something.
Colima was never safe. I have family in Tecoman and remember the days of CDS and los zetas as a kid. At the end of the day, it all came down to who you knew and what they were involved with.
I’m suppose to go to Jalisco in February and make my way down to tecoman, Puebla and Córdoba
From what I understand the helo was not with a team just spectating flying to low above the TTs and hit a power line
Maybe don't really remember. I was too busy begging for my kids lives to rememberI thought they were chasing a Class 1?
Maybe don't really remember. I was too busy begging for my kids lives to remember
Point taken. I was down there with a bike team so we were already through there but from what I remember it was on the road into Mike's not to far off the highway. There were some videos of it on Thumpertalk and I think Race Dezert when it happened.
Yes I think I remember thatPoint taken. I was down there with a bike team so we were already through there but from what I remember it was on the road into Mike's not to far off the highway. There were some videos of it on Thumpertalk and I think Race Dezert when it happened.
You sir, have some bad information in your post. As the Mother in this family i would appreciate you not making OUR story into something it was not.I used to pit for the Mc Millin team in the Baja races and one year they had a major altercation.
One of the crew members who also brings his wife and 2 daughters because they all help and enjoy it, were pulling a shop trailer. After the race he needed to get back and left before the caravan of trucks, etc. He was driving an F350 towing a 32' enclosed trailer and was stopped by "federales". At first, they just made them get out of the truck while they trashed the interior. (we used to just give them t-shirts and stickers and off we went) Next thing, all of them were cuffed with zip ties and had hoods placed over their heads. They were put in the back of a van and driven for over an hour. When they stopped, they had their clothes cut off by their captors and they were led away. With the hoods still on, they were forced to lay on the ground and they feared the worst. Then, the "federales" just hopped in the van and sped off. They were left in their underwear in the Mexican desert. The Dad was able to break his zip tie and get all of the hoods off. They then walked a couple of miles to a house, and from their were rescued. The truck, trailer and thousands in tools were never seen again. Safe to say he stopped pitting in Mexico and if I remember correctly, the Mc Millin team may have even taken a year or two off from Mexico. Now the rule is that everyone sticks together.
I think the last time I did a Baja race was maybe 2003 but I do not go to Mexico at all anymore.
And Beerrun I love our new home and everything we have made it. Sorry this has come up again and that people feel its okay to turn our story into something it wasn't. I love you.We just moved two years ago
I used to pit for the Mc Millin team in the Baja races and one year they had a major altercation.
One of the crew members who also brings his wife and 2 daughters because they all help and enjoy it, were pulling a shop trailer. After the race he needed to get back and left before the caravan of trucks, etc. He was driving an F350 towing a 32' enclosed trailer and was stopped by "federales". At first, they just made them get out of the truck while they trashed the interior. (we used to just give them t-shirts and stickers and off we went) Next thing, all of them were cuffed with zip ties and had hoods placed over their heads. They were put in the back of a van and driven for over an hour. When they stopped, they had their clothes cut off by their captors and they were led away. With the hoods still on, they were forced to lay on the ground and they feared the worst. Then, the "federales" just hopped in the van and sped off. They were left in their underwear in the Mexican desert. The Dad was able to break his zip tie and get all of the hoods off. They then walked a couple of miles to a house, and from their were rescued. The truck, trailer and thousands in tools were never seen again. Safe to say he stopped pitting in Mexico and if I remember correctly, the Mc Millin team may have even taken a year or two off from Mexico. Now the rule is that everyone sticks together.
I think the last time I did a Baja race was maybe 2003 but I do not go to Mexico at all anymore.
Thank you for posting. The person that claimed to know so much knows nothing. Didn't respond to the PM asking if we know them. I should not let it bother me but it does.Lazy bastards.
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Thank you for posting. The person that claimed to know so much knows nothing. Didn't respond to the PM asking if we know them. I should not let it bother me but it does.
Like I said earlier, I'm so glad you guys made it out, so scary to read let alone live. You have one hell of a strong family and bond.And Beerrun I love our new home and everything we have made it. Sorry this has come up again and that people feel its okay to turn our story into something it wasn't. I love you.
I remember that. Huge retirement community where hundreds of americans built houses & then the federales kicked them out at gunpoint.It happens every couple of years. I think the last good size development that was taken over was down in San Felipe last year.
I remember that. Huge retirement community where hundreds of americans built houses & then the federales kicked them out at gunpoint.
No that was by CRIT down at Water Wheel and AHA-QuinWasn't there some community a while ago where all of the homeowners were evicted from their homes because they were not residents or some B.S. like that. Thought it was down by Ensenada.
Listen to some interviews with Ed Cauldron,former high level security/intelligence from Mexico. He pretty much lays it out for you. Does say there are some places that are,for most part safe.However if you travel to areas that are controlled by cartels,Good Luck. There's little of no law in all of Mexico,only areas that the cartels dont want a lot of press so they are safer than others.
Yes and they have been.So what do the trophy truck guys do with millions of dollars in rigs and trucks? Wouldn't they be prime targets?
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Colima was never safe. I have family in Tecoman and remember the days of CDS and los zetas as a kid. At the end of the day, it all came down to who you knew and what they were involved with.
I’m suppose to go to Jalisco in February and make my way down to tecoman, Puebla and Córdoba
This story is terrifying. Holy shit. I couldn’t imagine... so glad they made it out of that shit hole.Lazy bastards.
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Live to Tell: A Family Returning from Vacation in Mexico is Ambushed, Kidnapped as they Approach U.S. Borderwww.cbsnews.com
Live to Tell: Kidnap on Highway 1
48 Hours: A Family Returning from Vacation in Mexico is Ambushed, Kidnapped as they Approach U.S. Borderwww.cbsnews.com