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Hoping to thwart 'ratas,' Mexico City installs panic buttons on buses
Modesto Bee ^
| 8-18-03
| Will Weissert
Posted on 08/18/2003 9:09:20 AM PDT by hoosierskypilot
Edited on 04/13/2004 1:56:04 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) - Julieta Lopez was riding the 128 bus to her cleaning job in a ritzy Mexico City neighborhood when she felt the chill of pistols pressed against her cheek and forehead. A gang of teenagers took everything from the 45-year-old maid and everyone else on board the pesera, or microbus, making passengers throw money and valuables into a bag of sand to conceal the loot.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: aztlaniscoming
To: hoosierskypilot
How is this possible? Guns are illegal in Mexico.
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:22:46 AM PDT
by
snopercod
To: hoosierskypilot
> David, a driver whose Route 128 bus doesn't have a panic button, said police often take bribes to protect the bus-robbing gangs known as "ratas," or rats.
The absolute heart of the problem, amigos.
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posted on
08/18/2003 9:24:49 AM PDT
by
Rate_Determining_Step
(US Military - Draining the Swamp of Terrorism since 2001!)
To: Tancredo Fan; JackelopeBreeder
Ping to the patriots of the Southwest. Just thought you gentlement would be amused by this. With corruption like this, no wonder Mexico expects us to absorb 60% of their population.
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posted on
08/18/2003 3:04:45 PM PDT
by
detsaoT
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