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The Gull
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A friend of mine told me...
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Woooosh
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| Quote: | Originally posted by The Gull
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I'll just keep waiting until someone comes forward to claim you as a friend Gull... flying rats attract very few followers.
(just kidding ya)... 
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
A Jeep-load of Mexican police officers pulled her over, asked her questions and searched her backpack. They found the pills - but no Mexican doctor's
prescription, as required by law.
What happened next is, as the couple tell it, a story line ripped from the film "Midnight Express." They say her bank cards disappeared, with about
$4,000 later drained from her accounts. She was shuffled in the darkness from one location to the next. A Mexican attorney took thousands of dollars,
then failed to present a defense - including the fact that she had a medical condition, or that she lived on a boat and often stocked up on medicine
and other supplies.
Wilson was never quite sure of the charges against her and could not understand the judicial proceedings. But when they were finished, Dawn Wilson - a
woman with no criminal record on either side of the border - was sentenced to five years in prison. Instead of a five-bedroom boat, her new home was a
cramped, filthy cell at Ojos Negros federal penitentiary in Ensenada.
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There are a number of people in mexican law enforcement and judicial system that are amused by screwing around with gringos and convicting them for
minor crimes or convicting them for no crime at all. Unfortunately, when you run across these individuals your life is ruined.
Gringos should be aware that traveling in mexico could result in arbitrary/capricious incarceration to amuse bureaucrats with evil in their hearts.
The police and judicial system has evil people. The police and judical system is not good at policing itself and ridding itself of bad apples.
Never trust law enforcement in mexico or US
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Bajahowodd
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I won't dispute what you are saying. But I also think the coverage of this story was slightly one-sided. After all, if she was so severely railroaded
in Mexico, why did she still spend three months in the pokey NOB?
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wessongroup
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"but was an assortment of prescription painkillers, sedatives, anti-anxiety medication and diet pills."
Now isn't that the normal "medicine cabinet" contains... she got caught with it...
"But bad luck awaited. On April 11, 2003, she had a minor traffic accident in the port city of Ensenada. She spent the night with friends, then set
off on foot the following morning to meet the insurance adjuster."
Big mistake, she was walking .... she's not in her car.. or in a taxi.. "Gringo woman" walking around, guess what, it's not the States.. you attract
attention, yes but the wrong kind down here..
Not being an arm chair quarter back.. as we (wife) and I have already gone over this.. and don't carry mediation unless absolutely required and then
in the container which came from the Pharmacy, with the Doctors name and phone. Had checked on this before coming down in October, I take a lot of
medications, so I asked what would be required by the Mexican Health Department.. yeah, I know ... there will always be someone that may tell me ..
you don't have a Mexican Doctors prescription for that.. and that would be correct.. but, don't carry 455 pills with me.... so I'm not going to worry
about it.. and those that I do carry in fact have a prescriptions written and are on file with the Pharmacy which supplied same to me.. their number
is also on the vial..
I would not like to do any time in a Mexican jail for anything.. have seen the inside of one when young.. and I would not want to spend any of my time
or money in one.. so I'm not going to be buying "drugs" from a Pharmacy without a Doctors prescription 
[Edited on 2-20-2010 by wessongroup]
[Edited on 2-20-2010 by wessongroup]
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The Gull
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
| Quote: | Originally posted by The Gull
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I'll just keep waiting until someone comes forward to claim you as a friend Gull... flying rats attract very few followers.
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Where's the lifeguard station?
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Beachgirl
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SD News 12/3/04 claimed she was driving when she was stopped, and had an American prescription for the drugs. Then it said she was stopped because she
was wearing shorts...uh...then it said the cops charged $4200 on her credit cards.
Another article said she had the meds, was driving South, swerved to avoid furniture in the road, hit a concrete barrier and spent the night with a
friend. Following morning she was walking to the mechanic's to pick up her Toyota and the cops stopped her because she was hitchhiking. Then they
searched her purse.
Who knows what really happened with all this conflicting info.
Maybe her arrest was prompted by her road accident. Maybe the pharmacy was on a hot list with the cops, and she was the bad example the cops set to
punish them.
Seems it would have been pretty easy to get a Mexican script for anti-seizure meds to avoid any trouble, but some articles claim she had pain killers
and diet pills and who knows what.
All seems kind of crazy with "real" drug dealers out there.
In the end because we will apparently never know the actual truth in this matter, we should all just stay under the wire and be good visitors in this
country. Get a script for your meds, don't hit concrete barriers, and don't wear shorts!
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Bajahowodd
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And here i thought you could get arrested for NOT wearing shorts!
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