Surfer's Baja Tale Is Warning To Others (American Tourists Robbed And Raped In Mexico)

SignOnSanDiego.com ^ | November 19, 2007 | Terry Rodgers

[trisham]

Bermuda’s nice.

[1Old Pro]

Bermuda’s nice.

Yep, and so is the North Shore of Oahu.

[redstateconfidential]

Mexican corruption and arrogance,coming to a school board, county commission,police department,library, mayors office, congress seat, senate seat, etc.. I have often wondered how long before the Invaders begin to administrate the west and other regions with their beautiful culture of corruption.One day soon you’ll have to bribe your way from Texas to California when all the cops are expecting their cultures due.

[mpackard]

Now you’re talking. Maui, though, is still the most beautiful place that I’ve ever seen.

[trisham]

Bermuda’s closer. :)

[doorgunner69]

I think I read about a cop that just some ammo in his trunk and was thrown in jail?

[1Old Pro]

Maui, though, is still the most beautiful place that I’ve ever seen.

Truly paradise, neve been to kaui but hear that's nice as well.

[dmz]

I’m sorry, but I feel zero sympathy for this duck.
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and none for his girlfriend, either? You know, the one that actually was sexually assaulted?

[dmz]

LOL. I love it when news stories such as this become entirely fictional when told through the lens of someone who was not there.

Never heard of a crime of opportunity, eh?

[skr]

In which country aren’t tourists robbed and/or killed? Unless the criminals were law officers, this isn’t really news, is it?

[VeniVidiVici]

NEVER carry one across the border, many people that have accidentally driven to an entry port that have been searched and found with weapons get an automatic 5 year sentence - neither your attorney nor the U.S. State department can get you out, it is a nightmare beyond your wildest dreams.

I actually did that once. I was in the Army and moving from Monterey, CA to Louisiana.

Anyhow, my car was loaded down with household crap to include a .22 rifle buried under it all in the backseat.

Not paying attention, traffic, etc., somehow ended up getting off I-10 in El Paso and boom, went across the border into Mexico.

Pretty much took the first u-turn I could find and headed back where our own Customs/BP folks stopped me and asked how long I'd been in Mexico and had any plants with me. (LOL!)Said I'd been there about 5 mins and no plants.

And that was it. Scared ********.

[Zhang Fei]

In 2005 there were 23,000 reported (and likely many more that were not) murders in a ppopulation of 40,000,000.

The numbers are likely right. South Africa is a First World country (no thanks to the ANC). Dead bodies have to be autopsied where natural causes seem unlikely (i.e. cadavers in cars sporting bullet holes).

[toddlintown]

“longtime visitors to the peninsula said tourists can take steps to reduce their chances of becoming victims.”

Tip #1. Don’t go to Mexico.

[toddlintown]

Beautiful picture. What you don’t see are the lines of raw sewerage that typically run into any body of nearby water.

I’ve been down there enough times to see the filth and squalor that goes on behind the curtain. No more, and no more of my tourist money.

[SMARTY]

If it’s such a swell place, and if the Mex. Gov’t knew what the h%$# end was up ... they would develop the place and make some money off the people the thugs victimizing.

[indthkr]

"everyone should be aware of the mexican laws"

Sounds like they don't really have any.....just rules that can be broken if you have enough money.

[avacado]

"Beautiful picture. What you don’t see are the lines of raw sewerage that typically run into any body of nearby water. I’ve been down there enough times to see the filth and squalor that goes on behind the curtain. No more, and no more of my tourist money."

I know that place rather well. The river runs pretty clean. The time you have to worry is when it turns from dry season (winter) to rainy season (summer). When the first heavy rains come it gets dirty for a bit then cleans up. The rest of the Summer it's very clean.

[woodbutcher1963]

“Maui, though, is still the most beautiful place that I’ve ever seen”

Amen brother

Maui is alittle too far to fly from the East coast though.
Bermuda is very nice, but very crowded.
British Virgin Islands are still my favorite.

I have heard Costa Rica and Belize are nice though.

However, I am in total agreement on Ol’ Mexico. I will NEVER go back.

[Osage Orange]

Sounds exactly like the Santa Ana River jetty....

Although fer sure not as pretty.......

[samm1148]

“I wouldn’t be surprised if the masked thugs who robbed and assaulted this couple were off-duty Mexican cops or federales.”

Same thing happening to the thugs in uniform here.