Posted on 10/01/2010 6:39:23 PM PDT by prairiebreeze
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — An American tourist was shot in the back of the head in Mexican waters on Thursday after being ambushed by armed boaters, a Texas sheriff said. It happened near the U.S. boundary of a lake where run-ins with pirates already had fishermen and Texas officials on alert.
Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez identified the victim as David Michael Hartley, 30. Hartley and his wife were riding personal watercrafts back from Mexico on Falcon Lake when about six gunmen approached in two boats, Gonzalez said. The sheriff said Hartley was shot as the couple sped away at the sight of the boaters.
What happened to Hartley was unclear. Gonzalez said the man’s wife tried circling back to pull him from the water, but she was forced to retreat to U.S. waters after being fired upon again.
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Uh, yeah....
Ping, Swinney.
Isn’t the wife usually the number one suspect when her husband mysteriously...um...disappears?
What in the heck was this couple doing there?
"Vigilantes!"
"See you at the bill signing."
Helluva job there, Dubya.
Put a small US Navy gunboat in that lake and see how the pirates like them apples.
sarc/off
Bring back the PBR Mk.II.
Could ask Senator Kerry to captain it, he has experience ... after all he served on one in VN. /s
While I don’t want a war with Mexico (I live to close to the border)...these people need to be taken care of. I don’t really think they are Mexicans but Moslems, who have just about taken over that country. This is very scary.
Don’t forget “Now you’re going to pay.” By far the most meaningful of all.
"PBR me, ASAP"
If “Texas officials (are) on alert”, aren’t they warning people at the lake?
Apparently this couple doesn’t read the newspapers either.
Maybe we should move the Knob Creek machine gun shoot down there.
An American tourist was shot in the back of the head in Mexican waters on Thursday after being ambushed by armed boaters
“I don’t really think they are Mexicans but Moslems, who have just about taken over that country. This is very scary.”
There are some similarities, can you provide more evidence?
Just wondering , not second guessing you.
Yeah, I think the US should appologize for invading sovereign Mexico.
The mexican bandits are drug smugglers from the Zetas Cartel.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/7227734.html
Some campers along Falcon Lake had taken to arming themselves following the state’s first warning in May. In one incident that month, state officials said five armed men boarded a boat on the U.S. side of the boundary.
The pirates either use powerful AK-47s or AR-15s to threaten their victims, Texas public safety officials said. The agency believes the pirates use local Mexican fishermen to operate the boats to get close to American fishermen.
Falcon Lake is a dammed section of the Rio Grande that straddles the border. The border is marked by 14 partially submerged concrete towers that mark the Rio Grande’s path before the lake was created in 1954.
According to Gonzalez, Tiffany Hartley told police the couple rode their Jet Skis for sightseeing and to take pictures of a famous church in Old Guerrero. They were riding back when they saw the armed gunmen on the boats,
and immediately began racing back to U.S. waters.
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