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WideAngleWandering
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Alright folks, we're on it. The WaW Baja 2018 Expedition now has a mission.
We will locate and escort one lost Teddy Bear to the nearest USPS outpost north of the border for safe passage back home.
Bonus points if it happens to be full of sweet, sweet drugs when we find it.
[Edited on 2018-1-11 by WideAngleWandering]
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JoeJustJoe
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This is another example why people like to scam old people.
If this happened to me I would simply take my son to "Toys"R"Us" and buy him a new "friend" or toy for the lost blanket, or tell him he is big boy,
and doesn't need the blanket anymore.
If I had to have the items back, I would prepay international shipping forms, and have everything filled out including an empty box and then offer a
few pesos to a hotel employee to ship it to me back in the states.
What I wouldn't do is pick up strangers suitcases, or teddy bears, and take it across the US border, where Border Patrol K-9 sniffs out "drugs" in
the Teddy, like in this example below:
Border Patrol K-9 sniffs out meth hidden in stuffed toy dog
It took the well-trained nose of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection canine to sniff that something was amiss with a plush toy dog at a California
immigration checkpoint earlier this week.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/border-patrol-sniffs-meth-hidden-st...
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willardguy
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cool. Im sure many here have been wondering what Joe would do.
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always ask yourself WWJD? 
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
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John Harper
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If it's stuffed with fentanyl, watch the dosage.
John
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JoeJustJoe
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It doesn't matter if some are wondering "what Joe would do."
I will tell you my opinion anyway.
Hopefully, MrBill, will visit this thread shortly, and tell us what his parents would have done in a similar situation, since MrBill, has written
extensively how his parents, and especially his father was never up for any awards for "father of the year."
Most people here of the " spare the rod and spoil the child" generation, I bet if when you were young, your parents wouldn't worry about such
foolishness of a lost teddy bear, and you would be lucky if your parents, wouldn't smack you upside the head, and tell you to stop your crying over
the lost of your blankey
If the OP is not just having a little fun here, or thinking of ways to smuggler contraband across the US/Mexican border, and is actually serious with
her concerns about the child's lost blankey, and teddy bear.
I would simply tell her not to worry too much about the lost of a security blanket because when your child grows up, there is always "therapy" to
help alleviate the years of painful memories starting in childhood.
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caj13
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hey Joe,
so somehow i think alot of people are either purposely ignoring, or missing my pioint (as well as yours).
I have absolutely no issues with a kid and his bear, they are important, for alot of reasons. thats not the problem I have.
My issue was - and still is - it is a swmall chance that this is a set-up for someone trying to get Drugs out of Mexico into the USA.
Tell a heart wrenching story - perfect - a kid and his lost bear. Can anyone be a hero - rescue the bear!
so as you posted - turns out occasionally - there is no kid - just a bear stuffed with contraban that an unknown individual duped some good
samaratan into picking up and transporting it across the border, then mailing it to whoever - wherever!
is thats whats happening here? probably not - but really folks, why are you castigating anfd belittleing those who point out the unknown risk here?
1. first time poster -
2. Story doesn't seem to add up hotel says its impossible to mail it?
seriously ? (BTW fed ex and DHL both carry stuff from Mexico to USA) - why not just send a prepaid mailer to the Hotel, anyone there would be
willing to take the 30 seconds to stuff the bear into an envelope and hand it back to the fed ex, or DHL guy)
iso - unknown poster, telling a story that at least has hints of errors or untruths in it - small chance i may be being played.
I'm not willing to take the chance - small risk that it is - because of the potential consequences.
Others here are willing to take that risk - I have no problem with that - more power to them, they probably end up a hero to a 6 year old kid and
his parents. Hopefully!
But i don't understand people trying to paint me as the devil incarnate, but if thats what floats their boat - more power to em!
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John Harper
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Quote: Originally posted by caj13  | hey Joe,
so somehow i think alot of people are either purposely ignoring, or missing my pioint (as well as yours).
I have absolutely no issues with a kid and his bear, they are important, for alot of reasons. thats not the problem I have.
My issue was - and still is - it is a swmall chance that this is a set-up for someone trying to get Drugs out of Mexico into the USA.
Tell a heart wrenching story - perfect - a kid and his lost bear. Can anyone be a hero - rescue the bear!
so as you posted - turns out occasionally - there is no kid - just a bear stuffed with contraban that an unknown individual duped some good
samaratan into picking up and transporting it across the border, then mailing it to whoever - wherever!
is thats whats happening here? probably not - but really folks, why are you castigating anfd belittleing those who point out the unknown risk here?
1. first time poster -
2. Story doesn't seem to add up hotel says its impossible to mail it?
seriously ? (BTW fed ex and DHL both carry stuff from Mexico to USA) - why not just send a prepaid mailer to the Hotel, anyone there would be
willing to take the 30 seconds to stuff the bear into an envelope and hand it back to the fed ex, or DHL guy)
iso - unknown poster, telling a story that at least has hints of errors or untruths in it - small chance i may be being played.
I'm not willing to take the chance - small risk that it is - because of the potential consequences.
Others here are willing to take that risk - I have no problem with that - more power to them, they probably end up a hero to a 6 year old kid and
his parents. Hopefully!
But i don't understand people trying to paint me as the devil incarnate, but if thats what floats their boat - more power to em!
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I think all your points are reasonable. Look at how many "nice" people got duped by the Prince of Nigeria and forked over their bank account numbers.
Good luck to whoever rolls the dice.
John
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It isn't hard to tell if the teddy bear has drugs in it. As the Chinese say "if the iron is hot don't pick it up, if it is cold pick it up".
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Paranoia strikes deep
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| Quote: Originally posted by TMW | | It isn't hard to tell if the teddy bear has drugs in it. As the Chinese say "if the iron is hot don't pick it up, if it is cold pick it up".
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I'm not so sure about that, but instead of argueing about it, how about a real world test of your postulate!
so I'll show up in Bakersfield with 10 Teddy Bears, you can hold em, feel em, look at em, and tell me which ones have 20 grams of "fentenyl" wrapped
in plastic inside? obviously it would be sand or sugar -
Just for reference here, the info I found says that 20 grams ofpure fentenyl after cutting the street value would be about 1/4 of a million if im
doing my math right!
so for every one you get right, I'll pay you 100 bucks - easy money for you! of course if you get it wrong, you owe me 100 buck per wrong guess!
It would be fun, we could make it like a game show - broadcast it to interested Baja Nomad participants, and you could show everyone how dumb I am!
what do you say?
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Come on up.
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caj13
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when and where? and it would be down, coming from Fresno
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John Harper
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I think we should pick up the bear and hold it ransom. We'll find out how much that kid loves his bear.
John
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This is starting to sound like the plot to a coen brothers film
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When ever you want to.
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Friday Feb 16th.
pick a time and a place - I'll bring the video to film your conquest!
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OK corner of Harris Rd and Winter Grove Dr at noon. It's a park.
[Edited on 1-13-2018 by TMW]
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| Quote: Originally posted by TMW | OK corner of Harris Rd and Winter Grove Dr at noon. It's a park.
[Edited on 1-13-2018 by TMW] |
I am dead serious about this, just want to make sure you aren't going to back out or disapear before i go blow a couple of hundred on teddy bears!
BTW if by some miracle I do win a couple of hundred from you , after the cost of the bears, everything gets donated to Blancas scholarship charity!
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You'll have to get your hands on it before I do. I guess it's a race. 
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