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Dave
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AMAZING!
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how did a commercial vehicle get past Mexican customs, especially if that load of meat was in it at the time.
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Usually you can't get anything past those legal eagles.  I guess with all the searching for guns and money sometimes the small stuff gets through.
Maybe customs thought it was a u-haul?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Those who worked with Pennington say he was a hard-working and responsible person who had been saving his money to go to college. His mother said "he
was going to live life to the fullest and no matter where he went, he made a friend."
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Uh...I think he fell off the hard-working/responsible wagon. Unless he was kidnapped and forced to travel to playas.
My guess is that the delivery van is now a taco truck. |
So...we are in infer that "hardworking/responsible " people do not go to TJ?
Or maybe you have some inside information that you're withholding?
Or maybe you're just an a-hole - who doesn't care if someone else loses his life....
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Bajahowodd
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Whoa. I think you are over-reacting. The circumstances of the scene when he was found tend to indicate that he was mixed up in something unsavory. And
any way you cut it, the delivery truck was just not the type of vehicle that someone would use to enter Mexico, whether carrying contraband, or under
duress by a kidnapper. Just way too conspicuous.
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BajaGringo
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It is tragic and sad, no matter what the reasons or cause behind it...
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Is that red hair?
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Dave
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Silly me
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So...we are in infer that "hardworking/responsible " people do not go to TJ?
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He was probably on his way to an event at the cultural center, got lost and fell on a knife. Happens all the time.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
| Quote: | Originally posted by Eugenio
So...we are in infer that "hardworking/responsible " people do not go to TJ?
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He was probably on his way to an event at the cultural center, got lost and fell on a knife. Happens all the time. |
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Eugenio
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Eugenio
| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Those who worked with Pennington say he was a hard-working and responsible person who had been saving his money to go to college. His mother said "he
was going to live life to the fullest and no matter where he went, he made a friend."
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Uh...I think he fell off the hard-working/responsible wagon. Unless he was kidnapped and forced to travel to playas.
My guess is that the delivery van is now a taco truck. |
So...we are in infer that "hardworking/responsible " people do not go to TJ?
Or maybe you have some inside information that you're withholding?
Or maybe you're just an a-hole - who doesn't care if someone else loses his life.... |
At this point my money'd be on option #3. 
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Dave
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I certainly wouldn't bet against you
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At this point my money'd be on option #3. |
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Woooosh
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Why no updates on this story from either side of the border?
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k-rico
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I've been doing google news searches about this story because I'm interested in what happened and nothing new has shown up. The Orange County Register
ran a news story, no new information, but you should read the reader's comments. 99% believe this is some poor innocent kid who fell prey to murderous
Mexicans. Like he was killed just for being in Mexico. Most posters are condemning the whole country of Mexico because of this.
I think there's a good chance this kid was up to no good and mixed it up with the wrong folks in the drug/prostitute zone. But maybe not. Perhaps he
drove the meat wagon into TJ and was killed when someone tried to steal it while he was in it. Also, he was found on the dead on the beach. Of all the
murders in TJ in the past few years, he's the first one found on the beach.
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Bajajack
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I have it on good authority that this particular case is under wraps on the mex side, they got orders, no press.
\"take what you can, give nothing back!\"
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the
American people.\'
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We can have no \"50-50\" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
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OK, so what's the story with the truck........which side of the border is it on??????.....or is it being towed by the U-haul????
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Dave
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Yeah?
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In Mexico?
Fat chance.
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I "heard' from someone that they have photo of vehicle entering border but unable to identify driver at this time......
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
OK, so what's the story with the truck........which side of the border is it on??????.....or is it being towed by the U-haul????
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Another mystery, they can't find it. Therefore, I think, it's more likely in Mex than in the US.
But this kid didn't really have a US address. One article I read said he sometimes stayed with relatives, sometimes in motels. Maybe it's parked on
some street in Anaheim next to the "Do Drop Inn".
[Edited on 4-2-2009 by k-rico]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajajack
I have it on good authority that this particular case is under wraps on the mex side, they got orders, no press. |
You mean the TJ morgue just needed another meat wagon to haul all the dead bodies around?
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So, I'm driving home from the market yesterday, make a turn at Euclid and Chapman in Garden Grove. There's a Shell station on that corner. Gassing up
there is a Cut Above truck . It is not all that conspicuous looking, very low key. All I'm saying is that after seeing one of their rigs, I can
understand how it may have passed through Mexican customs unmolested. Still would not explain why he was there. But does at least show me how he might
have gotten the truck in.
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Mother ID's son's body two weeks after slaying
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/apr/07/1m7pubsaf...
April 7, 2009
The mother of a 19-year-old North Carolina man found stabbed to death on a beach formally identified her son's body yesterday. “Who, who did this to
my son?” Elizabeth Taylor asked. “Why? Why did this happen?”
Shane Pennington was found dead two weeks ago. He had moved from North Carolina and was living in Orange County.
Baja California authorities said yesterday that Pennington had marijuana, cocaine and alcohol in his system when he was killed. A refrigerated meat
delivery truck, which Pennington was last seen driving the day before his body was found, remained missing. The 2004 Ford Ranger belonged to
Pennington's Orange County employer and contained 109 boxes of meat worth close to $3,000.
Salvador Ortiz, assistant attorney general for Baja California, said investigators ruled out involvement of organized crime.
Taylor said her son told friends that he was heading for work when he drove off about 1:15 p.m. March 23. He was not heard from again. His body was
found at 6:10 a.m. March 24.
A U.S. law enforcement source, who requested anonymity because he wasn't an authorized spokesman, said license plate readers at the border had
recorded the truck driving into Mexico at San Ysidro about 7:30 p.m. March 23. Three hours earlier, cameras had caught the truck heading north from
Tijuana into San Diego, suggesting that an initial crossing into Mexico had not been not recorded.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaNews
suggesting that an initial crossing into Mexico had not been not recorded. |
It was a while back but, I recall plate readers at San Ysidro and, at the same time, none at Tecate. Are they in place at Tecate now? Anybody know
for sure?
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