Posted on 04/04/2009 9:19:10 AM PDT by Domandred
The last time Patrick Moroney saw his Cessna Stationair 206, it was flying away from a rural airstrip in Mulege, Mexico - hijacked by gun-toting drug runners who left him and his stunned family abandoned beside a burning car.
-- SNIP --
there was no way I am getting my family out of this plane with a propeller moving.
-- SNIP --
They told me I was going to die
-- SNIP --
Kim Moroney called then-U.S. Sen. Larry Craig's staffers. They promised to help but nothing happened.
But less than two hours after her initial conversation with one of then-U.S. Rep. Bill Sali's employees, the congressman called back.
"He called from D.C. and told us we were his No. 1 priority," she said. "Within hours, we got a phone call from the U.S. consulate. They said, 'It appears you and your husband know the right people, because we have been forced to order you a border letter.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at idahostatesman.com ...
Great read about some of the issues US Citizens go through when they are the victim of crime in Mexico. Not only from the Mexican government, but also our own.
OMG Did they think that was funny????
And the rest of us can rot for all they care..
Why do people even go to Mexico these days let alone fly a private plane down there ...
Interesting, Craig’s staffers blew them off, it seems. Someone who had been in office awhile. Get ahold of Sali’s people, and they help, someone who hasn’t been in office long.
Never sent them down there its a personal problem!
Never go to Mexico.
**Why do people even go to Mexico these days **
There are those (liberals) who think they are ABOVE such noise..
they didn’t listen when the College students were told, it’s not SAFE to take Spring Break in MEXICO.
Sound’s like you are LUCKY TO BE ALIVE .. and you’re WHINING???
Gotta be a Democrat!
Mexico is a cesspool - why go there?
Actually, besides Craig (if someone had jumped to the front of the line to the bathroom he would have been all over it), we have some legislator’s in Idaho who do care about the little guy. At least they tried. Not like Fat Jack-ass Murtha.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2143231/posts
Never go to Mexico.
Got that right.
Twenty-Five years ago the FBO I flew for prohibited any of our aircraft from going to Mexico for any reason. Of course, I was the one who made that rule...
No one in their right mind who knows anything about the place would take such an asset there. It would be at risk the entire time.
There are more stories to tell, but it would fill a book. This guy should feel lucky to be alive, that's all.
Sure, barely get out with his children alive and he didn't learn his lesson. How many times did he and his wife vote for Hussein?
Early and often?
Well maybe when he gets his new plane hijacked he’ll learn. Maybe.
I've only crossed the Big Pond twice, once to Italy and once to England, and never gone to Mexico. Nevertheless, whenever I go outside of the U.S., I treat my passport as physically a part of me and am constantly paranoid if I can't touch it at any time. These folks really blew it by putting their passports in a backpack.
More money than brains?
If we knew the N-number we could be on the lookout...
That said, I'd still like to go to Australia...beautiful women with those sexy Aussie accents, great music. 'Course, the same thing can be said about Austin...can't throw a rock on 6th Street without hitting a musician, and can't take five steps without seeing a gorgeous woman with a sexy Texas accent.
God truly blessed the USA.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
And why would someone take their children into the middle of someone else's civil war?
This guy says this won't keep him from visiting his favorite place in Baja. Something tells me he doesn't spend a lot of time around Mexican people while he is down there. He obviously doesn't know what's going on in the streets.
I even wonder if he knows if Bill Sali, who save his sorry @$$ last time, was voted out of office in last year's election debacle.
Maybe he has an endless supply of planes ... maybe, just maybe he’s smuggling planes into Mexico ... Hillary, have you taken notice????
They got out because Larry Craig bl———er-—KNew, yeah right,,,”knew”, the right people! Let’s not tapdance around the issue!
My first thougth as well. Would you fly into rural Afghanistan for a vacation?
Not again!
Why would anyone go to mexico?
I think what they conveyed was that they resented that someone had gone over their head and made them do their job."'It appears you and your husband know the right people, because we have been forced to order you a border letter"OMG Did they think that was funny????
Arrogant bastards.
Ping!
My many dealings in Mexico over the last 60 years, you had better not be anything but a standard tourist if you don't know plenty of people in high places in their government.
I never paid mordita for anything but was fined $375 for landing after the curfew but I got even with the com andante and had him thrown in jail by the secretary of transportation.
A backcountry pilot says the scary 2008 ordeal won’t keep him away from his favorite spot in Baja.
Sure, barely get out with his children alive and he didn’t learn his lesson. How many times did he and his wife vote for Hussein?
Could be friends of “someone” in Mexico.
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