Posted on 07/23/2012 6:44:08 AM PDT by raybbr
did not immediately know the names and ages of the victims.
Translation: They haven't stolen IDs yet...
Border Patrol will assist with the investigation.
Shazamm!
Making up an excuse for that many people to be in a pickup truck driving down any road isn’t constructive - its silly.
Kenya used to use Datsun, Toyota & Peugeot small pickups as bush taxi’s. These “matatu’s” (the name means “30 cents” in Kiswahili) had a tall cover over the bed. I’ve ridden in them with 21 people in the bed, three standing on the rear bumper and four on the bench seat in the cab. 28 people! I have seen them with 35 people inside.
Those older Freepers remember piling 12 or more kids into a neighbors station wagon (remember those) to go to the lake, pool or beach on a summer day. Or a pickup bed, for that matter.
Safety is an individual choice. Some individuals accept greater risk than others. Even the nanny state cannot control all human behavior.
Our nanny state lets HIV positive folks roam freely, not even restricting employment in the food service industry.
“The EEOC’s guidelines on the employment of food service workers make clear that HIV is not a food-borne disease and that an employee’s or potential employee’s status as HIV-infected is not alone a sound basis on which to base hiring or employment assignment decisions. “
http://www.hivlawandpolicy.org/resourceCategories/view/5
How many can related tales of disgruntled cooks or waiters spitting on a meal? Yet dental professionals often wear face shields to protect themselves from patient saliva.
The CDC says “Blood, saliva, and gingival fluid from ALL dental patients should be considered infective. “
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00023587.htm
As for me, I’d prefer pickup trucks full of people to having HIV patients fixing or serving my restaurant food. If I choose to ride in a pickup bed (or any vehicle) I can check out the driver’s mental & physical state of being. I cannot do that at a restaurant.
Best answer would have been an alarm on the theater back door.
Mexican birthday party?
Wrong thread.
The individuals charged with the protection of our borders and the value of our citizenship should be held accountable for deaths like this.
Who?
The gangsters that run Mexico (Calderon and his ilk, not the druggies). The Mexican Blancos export labor like the Hessian princes did soldiers......slave labor instead of slave soldiers.
On this side, our own ruling classes buy as many as the Mexicans can ship across.
Both the libs and conservative free traders love these poor faceless people who flee poverty only to be exploited up here for profit (the free traders) or power (the libs).
If illegal immigration threatened either profit or power....it would be stopped in 15 minutes.....but people dying like cattle in the desert crossings or in third world truck pile ups like this.....hey, whatayagonnado, got to have cheap lettuce and more mouths licking food stamps.
I have seen loads of partying teenagers, poor families of all colors with granny in the back, and Mexican workers all overloaded into a pickup truck. When you crash a pickup truck with lots of people in the back it will be ugly. I am not sure how they got this many people in one. You can’t really outlaw poverty or stupidity even though I am sure the Democrats will keep trying with various regulations.
I hope the truck is ok.
Was Antonio López de Santa Anna on board? Were they headed to the Alamo? This inquiring mind wants to know.
Well stated and I agree. And I’ll bet that you have some good stories about your work
>> if there were easy answers, don’t you think people would have turned to them?
It seems that sneaking into our country illegally IS the “easy answer” to their problems that these folks (and many others) have chosen.
And therein lies a big part of the problem... it’s too easy, and too lucrative.
Unpossible! Dontcha know the border’s the most secure it’s been in over 10 years!!! /s
what a disgusting comment.
“Whiskey bottles and brand new cars
Oak tree, you’re in my way”
BEER RUN !
One or two... ;-)
This should never have happened. There are laws on how many people can be in a vehicle and riding in the bed. We need more control! sarcasm
These folks were on Obama’s “road to citizenship”.
If our boarder were closed - and if our immigration laws were enforced - and if our treasures weren’t handed out so freely, this event would have never happened. Those 12 people would not be dead, at least not on our soil.
Instead of two trees, they could have easily t killed a family of U.S. citizens who were traveling while on vacation.
Obama’s fault.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.