My parents honeymooned in Acapulco back in the 70s. I saw plenty of pictures, and the place looked really laid back and enjoyable.
Nowadays, why anyone would vacation in Mexico is beyond me.
Any American that goes to Mexico should expect something like this to happen.
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/articles/tsc-117748-university-utb.html
“UTB-TSC mourns slaying of freshman in Mexico”
October 06, 2010 9:49 PM
THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD
SNIPPET: “Mexican officials have reported an increase in hijackings on Mexican highways. A source with firsthand knowledge of criminal activity in Mexico said authorities have acknowledged that they can best protect passenger buses between sunrise and 2 p.m. The time of the alleged attack on Torres’ bus was not known.”
The Mexican government will do NOTHING about this.
They KNOW Obama is weak and Americans are good for target practice. Keep in mind the one murdered on jet skiis. The Mexican government is doing NOTHING. Obama is doing NOTHING. Our enemies, Mexico and the rest, KNOW they can get away with this under Obama.
Mexico is a failed state...why’d anyone got there is beyond me.
Why does any sane person travel to Mexico these days?
Don’t we have a group in Mexico that protests and demands that Americans get special treatment when they’re there, sort of the functional equivalent of La Raza? /sarc
Anyone traveling to Mexico is a moron, I’m sorry but it’s true. Even the company I work for, who has a manufacturing facility there, will not allow anyone to travel there on business. No ifs ands or buts.
We spent 10 days in Cozumel in June and had a lovely time. There is no problem there. We also stayed at a resort away from the main city and spent very little time in the actual city there.
Anyone who is stupid enough to go to Mexico when even Mexicans don’t want to get near it, is kind of asking for it.
My sympathies to the family, and warning to those, including some of my friends, who insist on going to Mexico. Don’t do it if you cherish your life or the lives of your loved ones you take with you. Mexico is a criminal state.
When I was growing up if you touched a hair on an American head the entire country would come down on you and the entire world knew it. Americans were safe just about anywhere. My how things have changed.
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Well, according to Wendy Murphy, the wife is to blame:
“Mexican ‘Pirates’? — Why We First Suspect the Spouse
By Wendy Murphy
Published October 07, 2010
| FoxNews.com
Twenty-nine year-old Tiffany Hartley says her husband was shot in the head by Mexican pirates earlier this week while the couple was riding jet skis on Falcon Lake at the Texas-Mexico border.
Claiming her husband fell face first in the water and that she tried to pull him out, Tiffany blamed God for why she left him and fled to safety. “I just keep hearing God tell me ‘You have to go, you have to go,’” she told one reporter.
No doubt God speaks to people in times of crisis, but it’s a bit convenient that He advised her to save her own skin. Let’s just say that’s not necessarily the Godly thing to do.
But even if there’s an ethic there that makes religious sense, there are lots of hard facts that make it very difficult to believe anything about Tiffany Hartley’s story...”