| Pages:
1
2 |
durrelllrobert
Elite Nomad
Posts: 7393
Registered: 11-22-2007
Location: Punta Banda BC
Member Is Offline
Mood: thriving in Baja
|
|
Quote: Originally posted by gnukid  | Apparently, during the event on the evening of the 11th that started near the Sanctuary and 5th of February and Altamirano (same block, same type of
event, same time of night, same location, pretty much every week) where police went to pull over a "suspicious person", who was driving around the
neighborhood in all black with a cowboy hat, according to witnesses, code red, shots of various caliber, detonations, fired from all directions, from
inside houses, grenades were thrown, but did not explode, simultaneously, all over the place, hundreds of shots of multiple high caliber weapons,
house to house searches, but no one one was injured, except ultimately later one of the "bad guys" reportedly received one shot as he exchanged fire
between two vehicles while he tried to escape down the malecon and carretera pichelingue, and was subsequently detained by the marines.
Just the opposite of an Oakland or Detroit uncontrolled drug gang type of shooting where random people get hit a block away. These drug gang guys are
well trained and disciplined to fire that many shots and not hit anyone.
http://colectivopericu.net/2015/03/11/informan-de-disparos-z...
In related news a man stole a battery and the police arrested the victims for detaining him... http://www.bcsnoticias.mx/ayudenme-levantaron-y-vienen-madre...
|
How can that be when guns are illegal in Mexico?
Bob Durrell
|
|
|
weebray
Super Nomad
Posts: 1094
Registered: 7-19-2010
Location: La Paz
Member Is Offline
Mood: lleno
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by Jack Swords | | Just returned from several months in La Paz and environs...lots of tourists there as well as the annual snowbirds. Everybody seems to be having a
good time. Those who sit in front of their computer with absolutely no personal knowledge of posted current issues need to simply stay home and
refrain from commenting. |
Amen brother. I live here, it's really quite tranquil 99.9% of the time. Obviously there are people on this net with nothing to do but sit at a
computer posting utter nonsense. I merely tried to explain to other nomads that life in La Paz is still sweet, quiet and safe. Apparently some of
you are not happy to hear this. Maybe you're just not happy period.
Every beautiful beach in the world needs a few condo towers - NOT.
|
|
|
Bajahowodd
Elite Nomad
Posts: 9274
Registered: 12-15-2008
Location: Disneyland Adjacent and anywhere in Baja
Member Is Offline
|
|
Geez. La Paz is one of the safest cities of its size worldwide.
|
|
|
laventana
Nomad
Posts: 216
Registered: 8-24-2006
Member Is Offline
Mood: sharing
|
|
Mind you it is only the cartel against the cartel killings to date....
Safest in North America it may have two years and past when there were no cartel killings. But now with 50? a year and being a small city i bet
it no longer can come close to that stat anymore, sadly. Even my tiny town 30 miles away from LaPaz had the cartel take out one of their own, this
person was responsible for most of the summer home break ins, so his funeral was very small.
So a population by my estimate is 600 for this town and one of theirs gone is an astronomical number.
This is all very sad that our island is now in the the ranks of stats like TJ, areas of Chicago, LA and so on. I use to live in Evanston Illinois,
about 6 blocks from one of the drive by hot spots of Chicago. Same there, it was drug vs drug hits, but they seemed to miss and hit more innocent
bystanders there than down here.
|
|
|
monoloco
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6667
Registered: 7-13-2009
Location: Pescadero BCS
Member Is Offline
|
|
I go to La Paz all the time and I always FEEL safe, but I recognize that there is a risk in every action I take, the risk of going to La Paz is still
very low for most of us, however, the risk of being a crime victim there now, is somewhat higher than it used to be. Just remember, that the a$$wholes
who would kill someone with automatic weapons, on a crowded street, don't really give a ratz a$$ if you catch a stray, so keep your head down if you
hear shooting.
"The future ain't what it used to be"
|
|
|
| Pages:
1
2 |
|
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
