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Acapulco: You wouldn't want to die there
Waterbury Republican-American ^
| February 8, 2007
| Natalia Parra (A.P.)
Posted on 02/08/2007 12:14:33 PM PST by Graybeard58
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To: Graybeard58
I don't even want to vacation there....
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:16:17 PM PST
by
Kimmers
To: Graybeard58
Back in the mid-eighties, I did think I'd died and gone to heaven when in Acapulco. Nothing like the Princess off-season and Teddy's on a sunny day. You couldn't pay me to go back there now.
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:17:57 PM PST
by
sageb1
(This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
To: Kimmers
Took the words right out of my mouth!
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:18:07 PM PST
by
stm
(Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
To: Graybeard58
Frankly, I don't want to die anywhere, but it's not really my choice, is it?
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:18:41 PM PST
by
rbookward
(When 900 years old you are, type as well you will not!)
To: Graybeard58
Wow, none of that ever happened in that old Elvis movie "Fun In Acapulco." Actually it is a very beautiful place, but there are too many other options out there to put up with this. When I was there, the biggest annoyance was the unrelenting persistence of people trying to sell you things you didn't want, like a timeshare, a bicycle or in one case a dead swordfish.
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:20:08 PM PST
by
speedy
To: Kimmers
Coming soon to a State near you.
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:20:30 PM PST
by
Domicile of Doom
(Center amber dot on head and squeeze for best results)
To: Graybeard58
Canada's had a rash of dead tourists in Mexico - a couple attending their dauther's wedding had their throats slashed, another chap was beaten to death for dancing with a local's girlfriend, another old couple had been shot in the legs...no travel advisories though.
As a Canuck I'd much prefer a US destination. Plenty of sun and fun to be found not far from home. And you can drink the water.
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:21:21 PM PST
by
timsbella
(Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
To: Graybeard58
I'm more worried about the corrupt cops in Mexico than the drug gangs, who have little interest in bothering tourists.
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:22:08 PM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: Kimmers
I don't even want to vacation there.... My wife wanted to, I talked her out of it.
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:22:19 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: rbookward
But you can choose to avoid Acapulco.
To: Domicile of Doom
Coming soon to a State near you.Hasn't some of this already come to south Texas?
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:24:12 PM PST
by
Mark17
To: Beelzebubba
I'm more worried about the corrupt cops in Mexico than the drug gangs, who have little interest in bothering tourists.What do you have to fear from corrupt Mexican cops?
To: rbookward
Frankly, I don't want to die anywhere, but it's not really my choice, is it? It's your choice as to whether or not you die in Acapulco, which is what the article is about.
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:25:19 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Kimmers
I don't even want to vacation there.... My wife and I went last year and had a great time. Although the long, fenced drive to our hotel was heavily guarded by machinegun toting guards. We got a cab and had a great tour of the city. It isn't the safest place, but what city its size is any safer for tourists? The drug war is between the cartels and the cops. The tourists are WELL protected by nearly everyone there as they are the lifeblood of that city's economy.
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:25:46 PM PST
by
Spiff
(Rudy Giuliani Quote (NY Post, 1996) "Most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine.")
To: Kimmers
I don't even want to vacation there....I spent a few days there a decade ago before my cruise. That place scared me. No desire to return. Puerto Vallarta was far preferable.
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:26:05 PM PST
by
mgstarr
To: timsbella
As a Canuck I'd much prefer a US destination. Try Pensacola, Galveston or Corpus Christi if you want the beaches.
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:26:36 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(If you're not being shot at, it's not a high stress job.)
To: Graybeard58
My wife forced us to go to Mexico on vacation last summer.
There isn't anything I left there that I need to go back for!
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:26:45 PM PST
by
Redleg Duke
(Heaven is home...I am just TDY here!)
To: Graybeard58
Hotel owners and other business leaders in the Pacific coast resort have demanded officials do something to quell the violence that has been closing in on the city's beachfront hotels, flashy discos and fish taco eateries. What? Solving a serious violence problem is simple! Just ask Sarah Brady. All you have to do is make gun ownership illegal, and all the violence will magically vanish!
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posted on
02/08/2007 12:26:50 PM PST
by
TChris
(The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
To: Graybeard58
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