Mexico yesterday

[Horace Smith]

My girlfriend wanted to get a Mickey Mouse piñata for her grandson so we went south of the border yesterday for a few hours. I usually go down and walk around once every year or so enjoying the breakfasts / bakeries and goat's milk caramels. I enjoy the different setting for a long walk and it adds a correction to my attitude. Currently, as always has been, an U.S. citizen only needs a drivers license. A birth certificate also if you are of hispanic descent and don't want a delay is a good idea. That changes June 1st and passports or a walk-in-card is manditory. Usually there were throngs of white U.S. peeps but we only saw 3-5 in the two-three hours we were there. I have never seen anything like this in terms of no people in the ~ 15 years I have been going down. Several older shops and the one really large grocery/department store near the border have gone vacant.

I had read where there were now delays driving into Mexico as they just initiated searches for guns and $ among the southbound traffic. While there were lots of Mexican officers no-one was being stopped. Coming out into the U.S. vehicular traffic looked to have > 30 minutes of delay.

I was curious if anyone might know what the deal was with the center guy in the last photo. (You might have to zoom in on him.) Notice his headgear is different as is his hold on his weapon. At first I thought maybe he had on a silencer but I suspect it is something different.


Oh....We never did find a Micky Mouse piñata

[/B]Army Street Patrol[/B]

[/B]Federales guarding bank[/B]

[/B]A different weapon in the middle?[/B]

 

[Jellybean]

His head gear is different because he's not wearing a helmet. It's hard to tell what weapon he is holding, but he's holding it like a club. I'd say he's the "slacker", every group has one.

 

[walnutred]

Lack of helmet and body armor suggests he's bullet proof. I was going to guess 2nd Lieutenant.

 

[Spotteddog]

LOL!

 

[Jack Flash]

... I had read where there were now delays driving into Mexico as they just initiated searches for guns and $ among the southbound traffic...

Since there are hardly any touristas coming in, they will FOR SURE catch all those smuggling guns!

 

[Horace Smith]

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Lack of helmet and body armor suggests he's bullet proof. I was going to guess 2nd Lieutenant.

That's a riot! If someone was going to pop these guys I would think the adversary would surely start with this one standout. Hopefully they could deploy quickly as they seem kind of bunched in the open to me.

 

[Spotteddog]

Oh, you mean like one AK burst or grenade into the P/U bed?

 

[jlrhiner]

2nd Lt. I just spit soda on my keyboard!

 

[gunsmith11]

why would anyone want to go to mexico today,,,hell the mexicans dont want to be there

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

He looks like the "informant" to me.

 

[SmithEC]

Watch out for those piñatas!

When this swine flu business was all the rage, my daughter told me that there are more folks killed in piñata accidents each year in Mexico than there ever will be by the swine flu.

I went looking for that stat on the interweb. Could never find it, but found that apparently Mexico easily leads the world in the number of folks injured or killed while doing things which aren't so smart.

Have you ever seen this video? Be patient with it. It starts out a bit slow, but in the end I think it might support my research.


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[smith17]

You know your gov't isn't running anything when the LEOs have to wear masks.
Ed

 

[Andy Griffith]

My uncle (on my father's side) was stationed in south Texas when he was in the army in the 1950's.

Him, and some other guys thought it might be fun to cross the boarder and go into Mexico and see if they could get some real Mexican food and just see the how people down there lived.

Anyway, I don't know the whole story, and what parts are true and what parts aren't, but it seems that they were still in somewhat of a "uniform" and were easily identified as US soldiers. My uncle was arrested for "impersonating an officer" and taken to the little jail by the Federalis (sp?) in that town.
Why the guys with him didn't get arrested, I don't know.

Anyway, later that night, his friend came back across the border and bribed the sole guard in that little jail to go off for a few minutes, and they broke him out of there and headed back across the border.

That is why I'm not going into Mexico, period.