4 US Citizens Kidnapped in Matamoros

[Zepol87 9186]

Yea when I was driving from Dallas to monterrey a couple times a month about a decade ago we would wait for a bunch of cars to cross together, pay the cops to lead and the rule was fuck all traffic lights until you get to the toll road. The bodies hanging off the bridge were pretty fucking gnarly but that was all I ever saw crossing there. Mexico is fun as hell and yea shit goes down but in 3 years living there I never had any issue other than having to give the damn cops 50 pesos or so every now and then. 

Edited March 6, 2023 by Zepol87

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6 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

My brother in law moved to Acuna and knocked up his dad's new wife's daughter (so his step sister) and now commutes back and forth between San Antonio where he works in construction and Acuna every weekend....finish high school kids

 

 

 

I'm not terribly familiar with this sub-genre of Mexican porn, but I am willing to learn.  

[Armybrat 40844]

1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

I'm starting to think maybe the felony scheduling of a buncha drugs is having a negative effect on Mexico AND the United States?  Just a hunch.  

I'm also really proud of Surly.  This could have easily devolved into a "Secure the Border (checks notes, they went the other way), Never Mind!" discussion.  But instead, it's a proper game of one-ups-manship on underage drinking, drug buys, blowjobs, and chicken-filled bus rides.  

Well, the chicken bus ride I took from Monterrey to Nuevo Laredo in 1960 didn’t actually have any chickens on it, so there’s that. 
However there were two goats along for the ride, but at least they got off in Sabinas Hidalgo.

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Just now, Armybrat said:

Well, the chicken bus ride I took from Monterrey to Nuevo Laredo in 1960 didn’t actually have any chickens on it, so there’s that. 
However there were two goats along for the ride, but at least they got off in Sabinas Hidalgo.

And the ranchero next to you said, "Hey gringo, what say when the bus slows down and we fuck one of them goats?"

And brat replied, "Nah man, let's stop the bus and fuck 'em both."  

[Guest]

6 hours ago, chainsaw said:

north carolina plates is a bad idea

First in Flight...but not if you dead.

[Steel Shank 9425]

3 hours ago, HenryJames said:

Who the fuck does a drive by on a cul-de-sac?

I did a drive by at your momma's cul-de-sac last might.

[tx 3 putt 76957]

21 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

My brother in law moved to Acuna and knocked up his dad's new wife's daughter (so his step sister) and now commutes back and forth between San Antonio where he works in construction and Acuna every weekend....finish high school kids.

 

 

Also just play it safe in Mexico and you'll have a great time. How many people do you know that have been to Mexico and how many of people do you know that have been murdered on those trips to Mexico?

 

 

 

was his step sister stuck in. Washing machine ?

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2 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

I did a drive by at your momma's cul-de-sac last might.

Between both ends of the street?  She still live on Perineum Cove ? 

[Walte464 450]

Yeah, i haven’t gone to Matamoros in 25 years but go to progresos monthly. There’s even a fear of going to all the new restaurants on the Brownsville side of the bridge that Elon just donated to get built.

[chainsaw 9868]

Just now, Walte464 said:

Yeah, i haven’t gone to Matamoros in 25 years but go to progresos monthly. There’s even a fear of going to all the new restaurants on the Brownsville side of the bridge that Elon just donated to get built.

the food is too brittle

[alincoln 2371]

26 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

How many people do you know that have been to Mexico and how many of people do you know that have been murdered on those trips to Mexico?

It's the same number

[deadshank 24653]

6 hours ago, ztejas said:

You couldn't pay me to cross anywhere along the Texas border. 

What if she’s really hawt?  

[Bevo 13577]

43 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

My brother in law moved to Acuna and knocked up his dad's new wife's daughter (so his step sister) and now commutes back and forth between San Antonio where he works in construction and Acuna every weekend....finish high school kids.

 

 

Also just play it safe in Mexico and you'll have a great time. How many people do you know that have been to Mexico and how many of people do you know that have been murdered on those trips to Mexico?

 

 

 

I thought that shit just happened in Arkansas, Alabama and Kentucky.

[Ignatius Reilly 48]

This happened to a family member of mine back in the 1990’s.

He and his buddies had graduated from high school up in east texas, and over the summer, they decided to take a road trip because they could buy beer and party down there.

Now you didn’t need a passport to cross the border in those days, remember, and it was quite common to see cars full of high schoolers headed down Matamoros way to get drunk and do things that teenagers do when they drink. 

So they loaded up my cousin’s Jeep Cherokee and headed south for a long weekend. He was headed off to college the next week—Centenary in Shreveport—so this was kind of their last hurrah.

My aunt spoke to them last right before they crossed the border. They were grabbing some bottles of Clearly Canadian and gas before getting into the long line at the crossing. They assume the boys crossed the border fine, as the Mexican border guards had a record of my cousin’s Jeep being searched at the border.

After that, things get disjointed. Witnesses placed all four of them at a donkey show around 7 pm. My cousin got up to ostensibly go to the baño, and told the boys he’d catch up to them down the street at a discotheque close to where they parked the hero.

There’s no record of their whereabouts for the next two hours, but at 9:50 a bouncer at the discotheque reported seeing a man matching my cousin’s description acting extremely paranoid, darting from streetlight to streetlight, and making a great effort to stay out of dark corners. The bouncer said he was acting completely irrational, shedding his clothes, like he was having some sort of out of body experience. 

His friends, assuming he was sleeping it off in the Jeep, didn’t pay much attention at first. After a couple of hours, though, they decided to go look for Mark. When they got outside, they saw police lights—and a viscous green liquid seeping out of the driver’s open door. In the seat were the remnants of a large cocoon-like sac.

When they approached the police, the officer was holding my cousin’s Centenary College hat. It was covered in the same green goo from the car.

The policia asked Mark’s friends if they recognized the hat—of course they did, they insisted, he had gotten it just weeks before at orientation and he hadn’t been without it.

The policia finally closed the case a few years ago after getting the lab results on the green substance. 
 

They weren’t sure where he went, but my cousin *wasn’t dead.*
 

We couldn’t believe it. How could that be? 

The police weren’t sure. All they knew—all that science could tell them—was that he had *Matamorphosized.*

 

[totallynotabuttpirate 5400]

2 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

....there were no girls and he’s like I’ll suck you dick for $20, I went to the border immediately without the blowjob.....

[tejas60 3533]

7 hours ago, ztejas said:

You couldn't pay me to cross anywhere along the Texas border. 

you should go to Boquillas. it's cool as shit with a great restaurant. but you have to pay THEM to row you across:

[ztejas 43445]

1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

they say "increased caution" for basically every country

Fair enough. Here are the level 4 countries. 

Not great company to keep. 

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4976]

I tried to pay for something in Pesos there and it took them a while to figure out how much to charge.

Edut: was replying to the post about Boquillas.

Edited March 7, 2023 by NotActuallyALonghorn

[ztejas 43445]

11 minutes ago, tejas60 said:

you should go to Boquillas. it's cool as shit with a great restaurant. but you have to pay THEM to row you across:

I could be talked into that after a few beers. 

[Bevo 13577]

5 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Fair enough. Here are the level 4 countries. 

Not great company to keep. 

Yeah, not any place I want to go. Something no one says - I hear North Korea is lovely this time of year. If you have the means, I highly recommend it.

[Born to Run 6569]

Fuck it’s been a few years since I’ve been to Maddens, I need to fix that.  I’m more a Josie’s guy though.  

In my experience you're not missing much. But every once a while Madden's is worth it, as far as shit shows go.
My brother met his wife at Josie's on a wild night- I might have had to fetch his truck from Boggie the next day. He's an Aggy and out kicked his coverage with a Sandcrab so Redneck Riviera dreams do come true.

[RollLeft 5045]

4 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

I’m sure in a few minutes the surlyites who go down to Mexico a lot and have never had an issue will be here quoting crime statistics of Chicago. 

The unfortunate reality is that the new cartels in charge do not care about a code of conduct wrt civilians, like the old cartels. The country is a mess and simply isn’t safe. I’ve traveled down there for decades, and all of my Mexico friends have become worried. If they’re worried, screw it. Go elsewhere. 

 

4 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

Mexico has had the highest murder rate in the world for years now (I guess you can throw in caveats about the reliability of statistics in some parts of the world, but I would guess it’s accurate).  Ukraine is probably the only country where it’s currently more likely for someone minding their own business to catch a bullet.  There were years when Mexico was statistically more dangerous than Iraq while we still had troops in Iraq fighting insurgencies.  

 

 

6 hours ago, Pig Bellmont said:

It’s certainly unfortunate but is this all that big of a surprise? With the state of things in Mexico it’d be almost more shocking if 4 US citizens in a white minivan *werent* kidnapped for ransom by a cartel after crossing the border 

Well, look a the big brains of Brad, Chad, and Bryan.  Please by all means continue to inform us of "the state of things" in Mexico from your recliner in Pflugerville.  I think Pig takes the cake of generalizations on this one, JFC.  

By all means, leave out that here in our own country, 800k go missing each year, that's 2500 a day.  BUT BUT BUT ROLL only 4000 of their dead bodies are found each year.  Do you know how many violent abductions there are of Americans in Mexico each year? 350+ (another 300 drown or croak of old age) And don't give me that underreported shit.  Maybe Mexico underreports their own but God forbid they underreport the death or abduction of Tom Dick and Jane Smith.  Not happening because see this thread.      

I'd bet that these people in the van were buying prescription pills in bulk and got caught up between two groups, rival sellers.   I've said it before.  Don't start none won't be none. Of those 300+ American abductions mentioned most were primarily due to somehow being near or around Cartel activity.   Let me connect the dots.  While you make think Cartel activity is everywhere it is not.   It is concentrated on the border, and in parts of Mexico. While it is the sensationalized and easy story we like to read about our neighbors to the south it is as apparent/prevalent to the average citizen their, in most cities, as the crimes/criminals in your local bad part of town.      

I'm not here to argue Mexico is safe or that the U.S. is equally unsafe only that your, "The Horror" of what happened in this incident is a typical Surly overreaction and those shitting on that beautiful country are worthy of a huge eye-roll and a giant go fuck yourself. And those of you who have "Mexico friends" and talk about Cartel shit mainly only do so when you bring it up and it's merely tolerated.  At least to your face.  Yes, it is news BUT the average Mexican is about as concerned about the cartels in their day-to-day lives as much as you are concerned about the 80,000 missing persons or 18000 murders, and or the 400+ abductions in this country each year, so not much. It is their fact of life that they house the cartels, as much as it is our fact of life that we house the crackheads and homeless they supply in this country.  Most people there, like here, are worried about putting food on the table and also what is happening with the fucking Kardashians. 

I know some of you are still thinking IF ONLY Mexico was a country of laws like we are here in MURICA! Get over yourself.  The truth is simple, economics rules the day in EVERY country.  More money means more than 200k prisoners, compared to our 2 million, would be housed and taken off the streets there.  Or maybe if they could afford more than having 1/3 our number of law enforcement. Or maybe if they didn't pay those bootlickers only 1k per month avg salary.   Maybe just maybe if their citizens had a 2nd amendment they wouldn't be such a "shitty hellhole" of a country and could finally appease your entitled asses.    

[Dbeasy 15051]

49 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Fair enough. Here are the level 4 countries. 

Not great company to keep. 

Hey why are you posting my summer vacation itenerary?

Edited March 7, 2023 by Dbeasy

[HamsterHookah 112]

24 minutes ago, RollLeft said:

 

 

Well, look a the big brains of Brad, Chad, and Bryan.  Please by all means continue to inform us of "the state of things" in Mexico from your recliner in Pflugerville.  I think Pig takes the cake of generalizations on this one, JFC.  

By all means, leave out that here in our own country, 800k go missing each year, that's 2500 a day.  BUT BUT BUT ROLL only 4000 of their dead bodies are found each year.  Do you know how many violent abductions there are of Americans in Mexico each year? 350+ (another 300 drown or croak of old age) And don't give me that underreported shit.  Maybe Mexico underreports their own but God forbid they underreport the death or abduction of Tom Dick and Jane Smith.  Not happening because see this thread.      

I'd bet that these people in the van were buying prescription pills in bulk and got caught up between two groups, rival sellers.   I've said it before.  Don't start none won't be none. Of those 300+ American abductions mentioned most were primarily due to somehow being near or around Cartel activity.   Let me connect the dots.  While you make think Cartel activity is everywhere it is not.   It is concentrated on the border, and in parts of Mexico. While it is the sensationalized and easy story we like to read about our neighbors to the south it is as apparent/prevalent to the average citizen their, in most cities, as the crimes/criminals in your local bad part of town.      

I'm not here to argue Mexico is safe or that the U.S. is equally unsafe only that your, "The Horror" of what happened in this incident is a typical Surly overreaction and those shitting on that beautiful country are worthy of a huge eye-roll and a giant go fuck yourself. And those of you who have "Mexico friends" and talk about Cartel shit mainly only do so when you bring it up and it's merely tolerated.  At least to your face.  Yes, it is news BUT the average Mexican is about as concerned about the cartels in their day-to-day lives as much as you are concerned about the 80,000 missing persons or 18000 murders, and or the 400+ abductions in this country each year, so not much. It is their fact of life that they house the cartels, as much as it is our fact of life that we house the crackheads and homeless they supply in this country.  Most people there, like here, are worried about putting food on the table and also what is happening with the fucking Kardashians. 

I know some of you are still thinking IF ONLY Mexico was a country of laws like we are here in MURICA! Get over yourself.  The truth is simple, economics rules the day in EVERY country.  More money means more than 200k prisoners, compared to our 2 million, would be housed and taken off the streets there.  Or maybe if they could afford more than having 1/3 our number of law enforcement. Or maybe if they didn't pay those bootlickers only 1k per month avg salary.   Maybe just maybe if their citizens had a 2nd amendment they wouldn't be such a "shitty hellhole" of a country and could finally appease your entitled asses.    

Sorry Mr. Presidente of Mexico. Your country is great, don’t mind us. We are just drunk.

[gmr548 16580]

Mazatlan is safer than Houston. There's a huge US/Canuck ex-pat community there.

I live in Houston and have been playing in a rec basketball league with a guy from Syria, among others. Came here a little over 10 years ago, has lost several family members to the violence there.

“but honestly it’s sketchy as fuck here too,” re: Houston. Nothing like being compared to Syria in terms of safety.

[ztejas 43445]

26 minutes ago, RollLeft said:

BUT the average Mexican is about as concerned about the cartels in their day-to-day lives as much as you are concerned about the 80,000 missing persons or 18000 murders, and or the 400+ abductions in this country each year, so not much. It is their fact of life that they house the cartels, as much as it is our fact of life that we house the crackheads and homeless they supply in this country.

What an insane statement. 

[gmr548 16580]

What an insane statement. 

Yeah, security/crime is consistently a top concern in polling of Mexican voters.

Overall I’m probably closer to the sentiment of that post than the pearl clutches but that’s just wrong.

[Hammerin Hank 1227]

8 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

Yeah, security/crime is consistently a top concern in polling of Mexican voters.

Overall I’m probably closer to the sentiment of that post than the pearl clutches but that’s just wrong.

I tend agree with RollLeft. Also, Security/crime is a top concern in polling of U.S. voters as well 

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/02/06/economy-remains-the-publics-top-policy-priority-covid-19-concerns-decline-again/pp_2023-02-06_political-priorities_00-01/

[Bevo 13577]

3 minutes ago, Hammerin Hank said:

I tend agree with RollLeft. Also, Security/crime is a top concern in polling of U.S. voters as well 

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/02/06/economy-remains-the-publics-top-policy-priority-covid-19-concerns-decline-again/pp_2023-02-06_political-priorities_00-01/

I was in Isla Mujeres and had a long conversation with one of the hotel's higher ups. He told me he had an upscale restaurant in Cancun and showed me pictures of the place. He was very proud of it and it did look nice. He said he had to sell it because the cartel wanted too much money each month and he got tired of the pay or get killed game.

[Nicole44 22060]

[tx 3 putt 76957]

2 hours ago, Bevo said:

I thought that shit just happened in Arkansas, Alabama and Kentucky.

and acuna !

[tx 3 putt 76957]

13 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

Looking good @Nicole44 😍😍😍

Edited March 7, 2023 by tx 3 putt

[tx 3 putt 76957]

47 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

I live in Houston and have been playing in a rec basketball league with a guy from Syria, among others. Came here a little over 10 years ago, has lost several family members to the violence there.

“but honestly it’s sketchy as fuck here too,” re: Houston. Nothing like being compared to Syria in terms of safety.

Video of that rec league ….

 

[Hammerin Hank 1227]

23 minutes ago, Bevo said:

I was in Isla Mujeres and had a long conversation with one of the hotel's higher ups. He told me he had an upscale restaurant in Cancun and showed me pictures of the place. He was very proud of it and it did look nice. He said he had to sell it because the cartel wanted too much money each month and he got tired of the pay or get killed game.

Fair enough. I know Mexico is more dangerous than the U.S.

Extortion is going to happen anywhere that organized crime exists 

[Bevo&Pevo 5145]

3 hours ago, slorch said:

First in Flight...but not if you dead.

Maybe they got angel wings.

We catch few Dos Laredos Tecolotes baseball games in Laredo Tx.  Just haven't mustered enough courage to catch a home game in the other Laredo.

[RDCanecutter 26442]

I worked in Colima in 2003 and drove down on a combo of main roads and back ways. Colima was Mayberry back then but in Zacatecas a bartendress [insert Warren Zevon song] hipped me to to the Death Corridor route I'd chosen so I took another through the hills. Real Los de Abajo country.

Used to bop around everywhere on bike and in car, almost certainly through/past places I shouldn't have. About the same as some murderous shitholes I'd rolled through in Birmingham etc. I have several maxims for dealing with dodgy areas. One is that you can go almost anywhere once, and another is, if you are surrounded by wolves, try to look like a turnip. Plus be really polite, in Spanish, and tip everybody. Yes you need another shoeshine and another newspaper, those guys may be halcones but it doesn't mean they'll point you out first.

I also try to be white, as in, look like the broke hippy cousin of a US Senator white.

Only went to Matamoros once. Reminded me of a fecal-overflow mud-flat from a sewage plant where i worked as a youth. Nuevo Laredo is also creepy, but I've been there a lot so I know where what's what. Very tense but some really nice moments like when I found a new library in the old train station, or had the mariachi play "El Rey" in honor of my dad after he passed.

Speaking of mariachis, I got obsessed with Acuña after watching El Mariachi, so much so that I went there with a camcorder and tracked down scenes from parts of the movie. Stayed in the same hotel where he slides down the rope. One of two places where I barricaded a door while I slept. The other was in Guadalajara.

I see it as definitely a notch up on the danger scale, but it's so interesting it's worth the risk.

 

[Goredho 17406]

3 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

My brother in law moved to Acuna and knocked up his dad's new wife's daughter (so his step sister) and now commutes back and forth between San Antonio where he works in construction and Acuna every weekend....finish high school kids.

 

 

Also just play it safe in Mexico and you'll have a great time. How many people do you know that have been to Mexico and how many people do you know that have been murdered on those trips to Mexico?

 

 

 

Let me guess, the step sister said, “Would you like some frijoles?” and your brother in law heard, “Would you like some free holes?”

[TwiceHorn 31470]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

and acuna !

If you're down in Acuna and you ain't up to bein alone  . . . .

[The Ace of Aces 5183]

The 4 went to Mexico because one of them wanted a tummy tuck. They were shot at and put in the back of a truck  Whereabouts unknown but video indicated at least three were already dead or serious injured when being put in the truck.*

*Mexico: come for the tummy tuck, stay forever after the cartel beheading

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-americans-kidnapped-gulf-drug-cartel-2700637729e8f3a5065005231aa8d4d3

[Parliament 14260]

Shooting/killing/kidnapping Americans is a good way to get your shit put on blast.

[TwiceHorn 31470]

3 hours ago, RollLeft said:

 

 

Well, look a the big brains of Brad, Chad, and Bryan.  Please by all means continue to inform us of "the state of things" in Mexico from your recliner in Pflugerville.  I think Pig takes the cake of generalizations on this one, JFC.  

By all means, leave out that here in our own country, 800k go missing each year, that's 2500 a day.  BUT BUT BUT ROLL only 4000 of their dead bodies are found each year.  Do you know how many violent abductions there are of Americans in Mexico each year? 350+ (another 300 drown or croak of old age) And don't give me that underreported shit.  Maybe Mexico underreports their own but God forbid they underreport the death or abduction of Tom Dick and Jane Smith.  Not happening because see this thread.      

I'd bet that these people in the van were buying prescription pills in bulk and got caught up between two groups, rival sellers.   I've said it before.  Don't start none won't be none. Of those 300+ American abductions mentioned most were primarily due to somehow being near or around Cartel activity.   Let me connect the dots.  While you make think Cartel activity is everywhere it is not.   It is concentrated on the border, and in parts of Mexico. While it is the sensationalized and easy story we like to read about our neighbors to the south it is as apparent/prevalent to the average citizen their, in most cities, as the crimes/criminals in your local bad part of town.      

I'm not here to argue Mexico is safe or that the U.S. is equally unsafe only that your, "The Horror" of what happened in this incident is a typical Surly overreaction and those shitting on that beautiful country are worthy of a huge eye-roll and a giant go fuck yourself. And those of you who have "Mexico friends" and talk about Cartel shit mainly only do so when you bring it up and it's merely tolerated.  At least to your face.  Yes, it is news BUT the average Mexican is about as concerned about the cartels in their day-to-day lives as much as you are concerned about the 80,000 missing persons or 18000 murders, and or the 400+ abductions in this country each year, so not much. It is their fact of life that they house the cartels, as much as it is our fact of life that we house the crackheads and homeless they supply in this country.  Most people there, like here, are worried about putting food on the table and also what is happening with the fucking Kardashians. 

I know some of you are still thinking IF ONLY Mexico was a country of laws like we are here in MURICA! Get over yourself.  The truth is simple, economics rules the day in EVERY country.  More money means more than 200k prisoners, compared to our 2 million, would be housed and taken off the streets there.  Or maybe if they could afford more than having 1/3 our number of law enforcement. Or maybe if they didn't pay those bootlickers only 1k per month avg salary.   Maybe just maybe if their citizens had a 2nd amendment they wouldn't be such a "shitty hellhole" of a country and could finally appease your entitled asses.    

The number appears to be more like 600k/year, https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/, but many are found relatively quickly, according to that site. NCIC shows that about 88% of those are cleared within the year. https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/2022-ncic-missing-person-and-unidentified-person-statistics.pdf/view

Even at 600k, that tots out to less than .2 people per 100 population.

Like you, I'm not here to argue one country's superiority over the other, but I think the comparison of the amount and type of violence is pretty spurious.

Americans are scared of crime and it's mostly pearl-clutching. I can't speak for the average Mexican.

I am a little shocked that all Mexican states are under travel warnings, I thought it was mostly areas that harbored plazas for drug trafficking and growing areas like Sinaloa.

Edited March 7, 2023 by TwiceHorn

[ztejas 43445]

20 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

The 4 went to Mexico because one of them wanted a tummy tuck. They were shot at and put in the back of a truck  Whereabouts unknown but video indicated at least three were already dead or serious injured when being put in the truck.*

*Mexico: come for the tummy tuck, stay forever after the cartel beheading

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-americans-kidnapped-gulf-drug-cartel-2700637729e8f3a5065005231aa8d4d3

Lol it says they were "seeking healthcare". I'd say that's a fairly inaccurate description. 

[Homercles 10205]

5 hours ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Sounds like someone who hasn’t spent a lot of time in Baltimore 

Got dat pandemic!  Get ya pandemic!

[Helobious 9453]

From witness descriptions, sounds like a vehicle rammed the van, then a second vehicle pulled up and opened fire on them. Apparently one of the victims was there to get a surgery and had at least $5000 in cash on her. So either those were some very lucky criminals or this was targeted. 

[fattyflattie 4639]

8 hours ago, Hook1997 said:

Fuck it’s been a few years since I’ve been to Maddens, I need to fix that.  I’m more a Josie’s guy though.  

Yeah. I’ve spent my fair share of time  in there, too.  I’m roughly the same age as Chris and he ran with some of my people. But it’s a whole different vibe. Now there’s so many nicer places, don’t have to mess with Maddens unless it’s what your hunting.  Last time I was there it was packed (our tournament was about 33% of it) and there was a redhead playing pool barefoot all night.  Im pretty sure she would have twisted me up and spit me right out, which would have been cool. We had won big trout #1 and 2 and donated it all to who knows how many dozen buckets. Junction was always my #2.   
 

This Mexico shit saddens me. I lived there for a couple of years shortly after college, and what a fantastic place. It was starting to get more dangerous as I left, and we were no longer allowed to travel, advised against visiting the “clubs” , and generally don’t be in certain areas.  Cartel shit was all over my YouTube algo today, and I shouldn’t have but listened to a few of the vids.  They’ve got some trouble there, don’t know if it’s fixable or not.  

[Loop 1604 227]

12 hours ago, ztejas said:

You couldn't pay me to cross anywhere along the Texas border. 

Lucky for you, you don’t have to make that choice to make ends meet or simply survive.

[SamsCorner 395]

10 hours ago, tejas60 said:

you should go to Boquillas. it's cool as shit with a great restaurant. but you have to pay THEM to row you across:

Captain Pablo will do it for $2 and a weathered hand.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8817]

My brother in law moved to Acuna and knocked up his dad's new wife's daughter (so his step sister) and now commutes back and forth between San Antonio where he works in construction and Acuna every weekend....finish high school kids.
 
 
Also just play it safe in Mexico and you'll have a great time. How many people do you know that have been to Mexico and how many people do you know that have been murdered on those trips to Mexico?
 
 
 

Pics?

[Anastasis 23469]

I know that this is gonna sounds nuts, but not buying the tummy tuck cover story. 

[Bevo 13577]

6 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

I know that this is gonna sounds nuts, but not buying the tummy tuck cover story. 

What if it is a great surgeon and you get a free stay at a five star resort.?