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Barry A.
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Lera-------
------- That is funny!!!!!!!
best laugh I have had today. Thank you.
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shari
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My husband and I had a scary close call with road bandidos between Vizcaino and Asuncion on a very lonely dark part of the paved road. There was a
truck stopped on the road and 3 men around it....as usual we stopped to see if they needed assistance but something didn't feel right....they said
they had a flat tire and asked if we had a screwdriver??? We said no and continued on our way both a little nervous when behind us we see the truck
pull a U turn very fast and start coming after us....yikes...we floored it and got the the junction where you turn off onto the dirt road and it was
there that the truck gave up the chase....guess they didn't like washboard...lesson learned, we don't stop anymore at night for disabled vehicles we
don't recognize and try not to travel that road at night. Also with the increase of drug problems, particularly crystal, petty crime has soared in
these parts and our paradise is becoming increasingly less safe, although we still leave the keys in our car.... Another friend encountered a truck
blocking the highway crosswise in the same part of the road and so he pulled a fast U turn and bolted back to Vizcaino to the cop shop...beware of
bandidos!
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Skeet/Loreto
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Lera: I am going to be in La Paz on June 15, depart back North the next Morning on the 7;00 Am.
How about a date?
Skeet/Loreto
Anon the Preacher
Skeeter Peter
SkeetTexas
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bajalera
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Well okay, amigo, see ya then!
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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Roberto
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Cooke
Chupacabra (Flying Bat Blood sucker) |
I'll be picky, once again.
Chupacabra translates this way, I believe (Oso?):
chupar = to suck
cabra = goat (female goat to be precise?)
So, a Chupacabra is a female-goat-sucker.
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Oso
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Roberto, you are being a bit picky. Cabra is indeed feminine, but it's also used for goats in general. The usual translation is simply "goatsucker".
But, the legend has nothing to do with flying bats. The creature is usually described as a bipedal mammal.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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Roberto
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
Roberto, you are being a bit picky... |
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Yes, of course. It's exactly the same in Italian - it was just a lame attempt at linguistic humor 
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Oso
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Just for the heck of it, I googled the term, substituting an "f" for the "s". It came up with quite a few references. Surprisingly (or maybe not),
the majority of them had to do with the current administration and party in power. Really. Try it and see. Perhaps a different search engine would
produce different results?
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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shari
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chupacabra in Bahia Asuncion
And just when you thought the chupacabra was a myth...yep folks the legendary Chupacabra reared it's ugly head here 6 years ago and my husband was a
translator for the team of scientists that came to investigate the incident. Seven goats were lifted out of a pen 6" high and thrown around and were
found with their blood sucked out. They all had puncture wounds in the jugular and marks on their backs where they were lifted out. There were no
tracks anywhere around the pen so it wasn't a biped at all. There is even a video of the investigation...oooo....scary...A mystery indeed! And there
were subseqent incidents, the next day in Argentina..that sucker flies muy rapido!
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Oso
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A six inch high pen doesn't sound very confining.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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villadelfin
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[b]Bandido Subcomandante Marcos[/b]
[Edited on 5-5-2006 by villadelfin]
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shari
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oops, yeah, the goat pen was 6 feet, that's 2 meters and it's all very mysterious indeed! but real stuff!
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Stickers
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
And just when you thought the chupacabra was a myth...yep folks the legendary Chupacabra reared it's ugly head here 6 ..... There is even a video of
the investigation...oooo....scary |
I sure would like to see that video. 
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Mango
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Howdy everyone, this is my first post here; but, I guess I have to start somewhere.. so here goes.
I have traveled a few times through northern BC and extensively throughout mainland Mexico many times during the last 10 years or so.
During part of my first trip traveling throughout Mexico I took the Copper Canyon train from Los Mochis to Creel. I was traveling alone and another
woman from the United States that I met on the train told me that the train had been held up 3 days before. A european tourist was filming the
hold-up with their video recorder and refused to hand it over. He was shot in the face and died.
15 minutes after talking with this woman the train came to a halt. After about 1/2 hour of waiting about 40 or 50 well camouflaged federal troops
melted out of the bushes right before my eyes. They got on the train and added to the already impressive security. The rest of the train trip went
without incident.
Two days later I was talking to a federal soldier at a checkpoint near Batopillas. He told me they had 300 federal troops and two helicopters
tracking the suspected bandits. He told me they were, "taking this very seriously and were not messing around."
Four or five years later, while in Los Alamos near the copper canyon area, a local told me a story about the same bandits. He told me that they
"dissapeared" after the Army swept through the area. He and everyone else suspected they were in a shallow grave somewhere. He suspected there would
be no bandit trouble in the area for at least another 10-15 years until the next crop of children/future bandits grows up and looked to crime without
knowing the fate of previous bandits.
The same cautious local would not drive his truck on the dirt/gravel roads outside of town after night, and would "never" drive far up into the hills.
For the most part Mexico is very safe and the people are very nice. Each part of Mexico is a little different and has different "rules". Sinaloa,
D.F., Guerrero and the Frontera are the places I'd watch out the most. I'll pretty much go anywhere during the daytime; but, I find a safe place and
stay put at night as a general rule.
I've been though many of the towns in southern Mexico that have had bandit trouble with the EZLN. I have never had a problem; but, I was in a bus
that stopped for a man laying faced down in the road motionless. My first instinct was to get out and administer first aid; however, I waited to see
what the bus driver would do. He got on the radio and called someone...I thought.. maybe the army checkpoint we had just passed trough just a few
kilometers before. Since it was EZLN territorry (There was a sign posted on the road and the police had not removed it.) I stayed in the bus. It
could have been some sort of "trap". We drove off. I felt bad for not helping the man; but, I did not want to become a hostage/victim, etc..
To stay out of trouble pretty much anywhere in the world don't travel at night, don't flaunt wealth, be aware of your surroundings, smile, be nice,
and treat people as the equals that they are.
Have a good one.
/\/\ango
[Edited on 5-14-2006 by Mango]
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