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Mexican 'Pirates'? -- Why We First Suspect the Spouse
FOX News ^ | October 07, 2010 | Wendy Murphy

Posted on 10/07/2010 10:31:29 AM PDT by FTJM

Twenty-nine year-old Tiffany Hartley says her husband was shot in the head by Mexican pirates earlier this week while the couple was riding jet skis on Falcon Lake at the Texas-Mexico border.

Claiming her husband fell face first in the water and that she tried to pull him out, Tiffany blamed God for why she left him and fled to safety. "I just keep hearing God tell me 'You have to go, you have to go'", she told one reporter.

No doubt God speaks to people in times of crisis, but it's a bit convenient that He advised her to save her own skin. Let's just say that's not necessarily the Godly thing to do.

But even if there's an ethic there that makes religious sense, there are lots of hard facts that make it very difficult to believe anything about Tiffany Hartley's story.

First, there is no evidence, other than Tiffany's word, that her husband was even on the water at all, much less in a jet ski getting shot in the head. He was reportedly wearing a life vest, which means his body should have been seen by someone by now, as it floated to shore someplace along the Lake's edge. It hasn't. And nobody heard motors or gunshots or saw anyone removing things from the water. While it's possible pirates might take a person for ransom and steal a jet ski for cash value, it takes time to lug people and heavy objects out of the water. Nobody saw any of it.

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1 posted on 10/07/2010 10:31:31 AM PDT by FTJM
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To: FTJM
No doubt God speaks to people in times of crisis, but it's a bit convenient that He advised her to save her own skin.

I always do what the voices in my head tell me to do.

2 posted on 10/07/2010 10:33:35 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I am Derek Fenton! (me) Enjoying freedom ourselves requires tolerating it for others. (Jedidah))
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To: FTJM
Just listening to the FOX report on the event and information was provided to the effect that the Mescan gub'mnt knows all about that side of the lake and they gave up patroling it years ago and just gave into the drug cartels.

They even know which gang controls the lake.

3 posted on 10/07/2010 10:34:40 AM PDT by muawiyah ("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Me too.

Aaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!


4 posted on 10/07/2010 10:35:46 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Why am I not surprised that a former prosecutor may be a little conspiratorial. I believe Ms. Hartley absent further information.


5 posted on 10/07/2010 10:36:09 AM PDT by Lawdoc (My dad married my aunt, so now my cousins are my brothers. Go figure.)
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To: FTJM

It takes time to lug people and heavy objects out of the water.It isn’t like a pirate has a job to go to or anything,the Mexicans I work with won’t stael anything they can’t pack drag or carry.


6 posted on 10/07/2010 10:36:52 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Cyber Liberty

Guilty


7 posted on 10/07/2010 10:38:08 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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To: FTJM
If there had not been so many public warnings about this lake I would never have been suspicious. They should have just gone hiking along the Iran-Iraq border or maybe sneaked into North Korea for some kodak moments.
8 posted on 10/07/2010 10:38:15 AM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
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Polygraph??


9 posted on 10/07/2010 10:40:24 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (The candidate they smear the most is the one they fear the most.)
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To: FTJM

Mexican pirates stealing a jet ski, I don’t know. Can you lower a jet ski?


10 posted on 10/07/2010 10:41:01 AM PDT by dblshot (Insanity - electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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To: FTJM

We’ll know in 48 hours when Gov. Perry sends in Chuck Norris.


11 posted on 10/07/2010 10:41:53 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL OR REBEL! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: kbennkc

I was thinking exactly the same thing....why do people go to these places infested with bad guys and then feel sorry for themselves when something bad happens.


12 posted on 10/07/2010 10:42:42 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/01...NEVER FORGET.)
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To: FTJM

Shame on Wendy Murphy - as usual, she is full of b.s. The Mexican terrorists wanted David Hartley’s jet ski. It was a very expensive and high powered jet ski and that was the motive for killing him. David had a kill switch on his life jacket. It is likely that his life jacket was removed in order for them to steal the jet ski - which is why his body hasn’t been found afloat.

The criminals must have decided to go after Tiffany after all for her jet ski or just the mere pleasure of killing another American. She was very fortunate to get away.


13 posted on 10/07/2010 10:45:08 AM PDT by demkicker (Helping Democrats Become Extinct)
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“While it's possible pirates might take a person for ransom and steal a jet ski for cash value, it takes time to lug people and heavy objects out of the water. Nobody saw any of it.”

I have fished this lake and I can tell you it's a big stretch of water where this occurred. That no one observed this incident is no surprise to me. It's my guess that these so called pirates were young teenagers who were having some jolly sport, attempting to see who could hit the Gringo's. Then, after killing the husband, pulled the body in the boat and stole the jet ski. The body will not be found and the jet ski will disappear into the same void as the hundreds of F-150’s and F-250’s stole out of Texas each year. Btw, the sport of “let's see who can hit the Gingo” is not a new one. About twenty years ago there was an incident on the stretch of Rio Grande in Big Bend Park where a couple of young Mexicans perched up on the cliffs shot and killed a guy who was rafting through the area. As with this incident on Falcon, his wife attempted to rescue him but was pinned down by the perp’s fire. Consequently, she had to watch him die, unable to get to him until some other rafters came along.

14 posted on 10/07/2010 10:45:47 AM PDT by snoringbear (Government is the Pimp,)
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To: dblshot

“Can you lower a jet ski?”

Well, you sure as hell can’t put 13” Daytons and whitewall tires on one!


15 posted on 10/07/2010 10:48:03 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Hang in there, baby! November's comin'...)
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To: FTJM

Only the msm does that. People in Texas KNOW the violence has already slithered across the border.


16 posted on 10/07/2010 10:48:34 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: FTJM

Count me in agreement that her story just doesn’t ring true. In the beginning of the interview, she spoke of her husband in the present tense. “He likes, he does, he is, etc.” Then when asked about the accusations against her, she changed to past tense. “He was, he had, etc.”

And most suspiciously, she paused to turn on some tears and looked up and to the right before saying that she loved him.

People retrieving memories don’t look up and to the right. They do that when they’re making up stories. I don’t believe her.


17 posted on 10/07/2010 10:48:44 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: FTJM

It might have been Obi Wan Kenobi that she heard telling her to run.


18 posted on 10/07/2010 10:49:38 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Jesus called us to be Salt and Light, not Vinegar and Water.)
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“One witness said he saw Tiffany as she rode her jet ski toward shore, seemingly distraught and followed by a group of men in a boat. He also said Tiffany asked him to call 911 and told him someone had shot her husband.”

So, lets speculate that she killed her husband because, well, Mexican pirates don’t randomly kill people with a lucky head shot. And distraught widows don’t suck up to TV hostesses.


19 posted on 10/07/2010 10:50:31 AM PDT by running_dog_lackey
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To: Cyber Liberty

The voices in my head are MUCH MORE RELIABLE than the voices on the network and cable news channels.


20 posted on 10/07/2010 10:50:35 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Jesus called us to be Salt and Light, not Vinegar and Water.)
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