frank-2
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I know this is old news, but I watched it myself on TV last night. 48 hours mystery.
Did anyone watch 48 hours mystery last night.
It was very interesting. I couldn't turn it off. It was about a family traveling in Mexico and they were captured by a gang of 10 men dressed in police uniforms. It was 2007 they took them up in the mountains and left them there took their brand-new truck and fifth wheel left them for dead. Very scary . They interviewed United States policeman and he says if you are captured by those bandits you can be expected to be shot. I could not believe what I seem the family never did return to RVing
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Seen it last winter pretty scary
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frank-2
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Yes it is scary. I felt so bad for those people the husband and wife were so worried about their two kids.
We are down south in Texas. We go over to Progresso and even last year the people there were begging for ing very aggressive. I guess all we can do is take this as a warning
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On another forum someone asked if it was safe to travel to Mexico. A few people said "Sure, it's all hype". A few said they were just there and had a great time.
From the way I see it, you are in a high dollar RV, with cash in your pocket, in a lawless land filled with drug dealers, where the average man almost has to be a criminal to survive so, what could go wrong?
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qtla9111
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Billieg2 wrote:On another forum someone asked if it was safe to travel to Mexico. A few people said "Sure, it's all hype". A few said they were just there and had a great time.
From the way I see it, you are in a high dollar RV, with cash in your pocket, in a lawless land filled with drug dealers, where the average man almost has to be a criminal to survive so, what could go wrong?
You know so little of the reality of Mexico.
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moisheh
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"where the average man almost has to be a criminal to survive so, what could go wrong?"
That statement should be enough to close this thread!! I bet this poster has never been to Mexico and knows nothing on this subject. Isn't the internet amazing!!!
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qtla9111
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Okay, now here's the rest of the story. I knew there was more.
Kidnap on Hwy 1
Watch the whole video, it is 42 minutes long. It only shows us that life is no longer sacred or safe on either side of the border. In short, it was a case of mistaken identity. The family was left in the desert, found their way home thanks to friendly Mexicans and honest Mexican police. They were delivered to the border and treated like dirt by U.S. border officials and U.S. police in their jurisdiction and then months later the state department pulls a fast on them.
The daughter, toward the end of the video relates how years earlier she was almost killed in her high school classroom by a classmate who went nuts and shot and killed two students.
Also interesting is that the producers of the video lead you into believing that the son was murdered when in fact he survived too but refuses to discuss the matter on television or with his family. Oh the media!
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Hmm there is a couple in Alberta last year who would also make a good 48 hours story. Only trouble is they are not alive to relate the tale, they were taken & murdered. Or the Johnson & Bentley families in BC who were camping in a campground in Wells Gray Park in their RV, when an armed man came in shot them around the campfire. He spared the 2 young daughters, at least for 2 weeks, while he raped them. Then he killed them as well. He was not Mexican, BTW.
If that is the same incident in Baja I think it is, did that person not break one of the cardinal rules, don't drive alone after dark?
I also notice Billieg2 is form Florida, I think a couple of British families may be thinking the same about Florida as he does about Mexico right now.
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iguana07
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qtla9111, what do you mean by mistaken identity?
They targeted these people and robbed them of their possessions and left them in the hills of Tijuana.
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qtla9111
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I guess it depends on the viewer's interpretation. Based on what the mother and daughter said, they don't think they were targeted, they were looking for someone else. Did they get robbed? Sure they did.
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