I have lived in Washington State for almost all of my 72 years and I have NEVER heard of an incident like this. Yes, there are carjackings and holdups
and muggings. But nothing anything remotely like this.
If there were an incident like this with automatic weapons and kidnappings the FBI would be all over the case like flies on dog poop. The suspects
would go on a list that is never purged.
I'm no apologist for all of u.s. law enforcement behaviors. Racism and poor training are a continuing problem. But we do have the rule of law rather
than men. One incident like this to me and I would have my Mulege house sold by someone else and never cross the border again as long as I lived.
I love the climate. I love the citizens I have met. I have never been able to distinguish the difference between the national and regional governments
and a criminal conspiracy. I am a visitor as well as a guest and am here by choice. That can change.
As to mainland travel, going and staying in some hotel at a resort destination in not travel by any wild stretch of the imagination. Except for the
language spoken by the nice woman cleaning your room, there is NO difference between one country and another. Why bother? Beaches and the people on
them are a bore anyway.woody with a view - 4-6-2016 at 11:10 AM
Well said, Gulliver. Except the part about the beaches!durrelllrobert - 4-6-2016 at 11:26 AM
I'll concede that things have changed. I still own a place in Olympia Washington that my parents bought in 1946 when I was three. Through most of my
life everyone down that 3/4 mile long dead end road knew everyone and any stranger would have stuck out like a boil on your nose.
For years there were no rentals. And the Dobsons moved away and strangers started come and go. At first we would make a point of greeting and meeting
and it worked well. Then a new owner bought it who lived elsewhere and things fell apart. The blowup was a group of three guys in their twenties who
rebuffed all attempts at contact, began to accumulate a fine collection of dead cars and beer cans and kept random hours.
The final denouement was on a Saturday night when shots were fired at two in the morning and everyone called the sheriff. The house and garage were
full of stolen stuff. All three guys had warrants out for their arrest. The end of the world from our point of view. Hell! This was 1965! We had never
seen such a thing.
It took two weeks to get in touch with the house owner. He was angry at us for calling him. He never cleaned the place up. The scene repeated itself
with minor variations at least twice. Then it sat empty for a few months and then burned down. No one called the fire department for two days. It was
an empty lot for years until they built the new school there. Problem solved.
The kerosene soaked wretches involved still smile when we get together every once in a while. We had a good laugh together when Kenny retired from the
fire department. I mean, we did mow a fire break around it the week before. "Looking for our lost golf balls officer!" Responsible citizens.chippy - 4-6-2016 at 05:02 PM
What does this vigilante/tough guy/arson story have to do with the original post? Nomads are fun to read.Gulliver - 4-6-2016 at 05:13 PM
Not a tough guy in the bunch. Sneaky and smug maybe. Funny to think of any of them as tough guys. Total wimps.
The point is that there are strangers around these days who do things like carjack and it was a rare thing thing two or three generations ago.
And yes, it was more for your entertainment than any cosmic message. I'm not too good at cosmic messages. I think there is some of that in the old
testament but it's pretty bloody reading.rts551 - 4-6-2016 at 08:24 PM
[Edited on 4-7-2016 by rts551]Gulliver - 4-7-2016 at 05:24 AM
Motive robbery? Seem like it would be easier money hitting a gas station or a store of some sort. Any gas pumper has more cash in his pocket than some
random person headed down the highway. If you wanted the car you wouldn't shoot it up. Then again, no witnesses out on the road. Daylight event?
Then again, I'm trying to think logically. Probably a waste of time.chuckie - 4-7-2016 at 07:00 AM
This is where everyone starts to tell what they would have done and second guess the people who were actually there....cant wait!rts551 - 4-7-2016 at 08:01 AM
Apparently Church group member. Probably not much there for robbery. AK47 used to shoot up the car. Probably not random. Mistaken
identity...maybe.pascuale - 4-8-2016 at 02:17 AM
Damn, one more Canadian coming to Florida for the winter!
