horns of ???
*horn of goat* Sounds like a reference to the characteristic shape of the AKs curved magazine.
AK47s:
Horned goats:
Posted on 12/30/2003 5:22:30 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
NUEVO LAREDO - City police are bracing for an expected outpouring of gunfire Wednesday night by residents celebrating the New Year.
Previous attempts to enforce city or law enforcement-imposed no-gunfire bans on prior New Year's Eve have been ignored by city dwellers, an official said Monday Public Security Director Oscar Montiel said the entire 300 officer force would be on duty Wednesday night in an effort to enforce laws prohibiting discharging firearms into the air.
He estimated that with many families owning firearms, there would be thousands of people shooting weapons of all types skyward to welcome the New Year.
"All we can do is to appeal to people's conscious. People should not be discharging firearms into the air because their bullets could hit somebody you know," Montiel said. "We have many bitter experiences of people falling victim to this type of gunfire."
He said there were several reports last Dec. 31 of gunfire directed intentionally at drivers and pedestrians.
Montiel said the Mexican Army has also joined the drive to remove weapons from residents with its campaign to trade weapons for supermarket coupons. He said while some weapons have been turned in, they are just a fraction of what is available to residents.
Montiel said he expects to work with federal authorities in the effort to curb people firing weapons into the sky.
He said with a unified effort authorities can make a difference in safety for residents in general by curbing firearms use.
A 25-year veteran of the city police force, who asked not to be named, said discharging weapons on New Year's Eve is something people here have always done, in good economic times and bad.
He said everything from small pistols to AK-47 assault rifles, popularly known as "cuernos de chivo," are fired by residents into the sky.
Mayor Jose Manuel Suarez, starting the final year of his administration, said some families suffer because of celebratory gunfire.
"This is something we have to eradicate because of the suffering it causes," Suarez said. "I have instructed the police chief to put every available officer on duty as an ounce of prevention."
He said that even with a strong police presence, danger lurks as "zero hour," or midnight, approaches.
Suarez said police will respond to reports of gunfire as they are called into the dispatcher's office.
In addition, he said emergency medical services will be ready to respond to shooting and other accidents.
Suarez said he hopes nobody falls victim to what he called "irresponsible" people discharging firearms skyward.
(Translated by Assistant Copy Editor Mark Webber.)
(Times Staff Writer Miguel Timoshenkov Ramírez can be reached at 728-2583, or by e-mail at timo1@lmtonline.com.)
horns of ???
horns of ???
*horn of goat* Sounds like a reference to the characteristic shape of the AKs curved magazine.
AK47s:
Horned goats:
And also ... "a sacrificial lamb." (or goat)
Spoke too soon :)
Gives a scary dimension to thoughts of the days of chivalry. What's your dictionary list for a chivito, the term I picked up for a goat's kid?
There's of course a wide variance between the Spanish usage in Castillian Spain, rural border Mexico, and the Cuban idiom I picked up as a youngster some 45 years ago. A couple of slang analogies come to mind as well, better left to those with a good working knowledge of the recent working terminology found in the Mexican *Boys Towns* around Nuevo Laredo, Nogales and Tijuana.
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One evening the hombres in the first car were throwing full cans of beer at those in the second car. Some of those in the second car were shooting at the first car. Looked like a fair fight since no one got hit while I was watching.
Mine defines it first as a baby beef critter, then the alternate definition is a baby lamb or goat. I wonder if its a Castillian/Tex-Mex thing.
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