thebajarunner
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Trauma and Drama in the air
Some years back we flew my C-172 to La Paz in connection with the Baja 1000.
We filed our flight plan, as per usual at the base of the LP tower, then started walking out to my plane.
Half way out one of the fellows in flight control hollered out for us to return.
"Oh Oh!!"
But, it was simple, would we please take this package, about 3 kilos worth, plain brown wrapper, to the guys in the tower at Loreto.
"Uh, mmmm, well, yeah, o.k."
So, we take off, and for the next 90 minutes it is pretty quiet as Jack and I are peering into the back seat at this rather benign looking, brown
wrapped packet.
Finally he cannot stand it anymore, "So what do you suppose we are hauling for the boys, and what do you supposed we should do with it?"
That sparks a lengthy debate....I say its open the window and pitch it out and head for Guaymas...
Obviously they have called ahead, and obviously we are flight planned into Loreto and planning to top off for the run to San Felipe and obviously if
we don't show it will raise eyebrows.
And, if the brown package contains...... ahem..... well, you know.
Loreto arrives way too soon, we park, a few deep breaths, gingerly haul the packet into the tower office and start making a new flight plan.
Not a word, not a smile, not a comment, just tucked it quickly under the counter and we are
OUTTTAAAA HERE!!!!!
Any guesses on what we hauled???
Still wondering, after all these years.
Baja Arriba!!
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David K
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Was it... CILANTRO?
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capt. mike
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runner....
quite a tale, but why in tarnation would you have agreed to such an offer without on the spot confirming what was inside?
Especially with potential plane confiscation and prison a real possibility?
makes me shudder just to think about it.
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
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bajaloco
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Does the term young and dumb mean anything? Looking back, we all did crazy things in our youth...but that's just asking for trouble. Or maybe you
enjoy mexican prison food....
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capn.sharky
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Me too
I have some very close mexican friends in Loreto that own a small resturant. In fact, my wife and I were best man and maid of honor when their
daughter got married up here in So. Cal. One day about four years ago they asked me if I could take a box of stuff to their daughter---mainly
medicine as she has severe allergies. I was driving my Bronco then. Well, sure enough, it wasn't long until it started eating on me. What was in the
box. No way anything illegal from Sandra and Jorge. But, what if? Finally, I pulled over (after about four hours) and checked out the package. I
felt terrible about it---but would have felt worse if it contained anything that could have put me in jail for five or six years. I even pulled down
a dirt road so no one would see me. When I returned to Loreto a few months later I told them what I had done---I felt so guilty. Since then Jorge has
given me boxes to bring up with fuses coming out of them, plants that are supossed to look like mota and a box wrapped up in a lot of chain with a
lock on it.....very creative.
If there is no fishing in heaven, I am not going
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thebajarunner
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Why, indeed?
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quite a tale, but why in tarnation would you have agreed to such an offer without on the spot confirming what was inside?
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well, Mike, sometimes 20/20 hindsight is great, isn't it? on reflection we should have parked the Cutlass and gone back to town, hard to think that
through in the heat of the moment.
just like I should have kept that plane instead of selling it in perfect condition for $38k.... should have kept my mint 1966 TR-4A instead of selling
it for $1200.
should have not taken the package... but we did, sigh....
Baja Arriba!!
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surfer jim
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That package contained the location of the WMD they have been looking for....where did it go>
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