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BajaBlanca
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jeez, it is so annoying to have to deal with being pulled over ..... I feel your pain, Marla ...
I do like that sticker, Rat !!
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Roberto
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Marla has been across more than once. And more than once at Tecate. She is reporting a situation of police corruption (shocking, I know!!!!). I don't
think she needs explanations on what she did wrong, or how she should "be nice", etc.
Just take the information and use it. Or not. As you wish.
But, whatever you do, stop with the damn apologies for behavior south of the border. Corruption is a problem. End of story.
[Edited on 12-13-2011 by Roberto]
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paranewbi
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The simple solution is:
Spend as much time as possible in the Bar Diana (right side of Zocola, just past bank). Eventually you and the police will recognize each other!
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaWarrior
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I have one of these in the rear window of both my cars and twice I have been stopped by a motorcycle officer in Ensenada and as soon as he approached
the back of my car he just turned around, got on his bike and rode off.
Bob Durrell
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bajaguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by durrelllrobert
| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaWarrior
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I have one of these in the rear window of both my cars and twice I have been stopped by a motorcycle officer in Ensenada and as soon as he approached
the back of my car he just turned around, got on his bike and rode off. |
Click on sticker, save to file, reduce size to about 3" and print on waterproof photo paper, stick in back window on drivers side......
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capn.sharky
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so, where do you get the stickers?
If there is no fishing in heaven, I am not going
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BAJA.DESERT.RAT
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hola,
the originals were much bigger, around 10" or so and 6" or so.
capn.sharky....as posted above, Click on sticker, save to file, reduce size to about 3" and print on waterproof photo paper, stick in back window on
drivers side......
if that doesn't work, send me a u2u and i'll send it to you via email and you can print it out. need your email address.
BIEN SALUD, DA RAT
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David K
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In the thread from 2007 named 'decal' is a photo of the original sticker on the Wet Buzzard Bar sliding glass door... next to my 'got baja?'
sticker.... Here is the link: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=24184
I just added the link for the decal/ sticker image there, as well!
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captkw
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my way
I have spent a bit of time in baja and have driven to panama and back,,that does not make me a expert,, but being I have been stopped a coulpe of
time's,,this is my system,,1st drive,with caution,watch all sign,s,,,give yourself plently of following space so that you have time to react and see
way up the road ahead of you.. dosnt hurt to keep an semi behind you while getting near a town//make's a nice buffer:..I usally keep a 20 and a credit
card in my pocket/wallet..and if I get stopped,,pull it out and say" muy pobre" they see the card and do not want to go to the bank with you and be
seen on a camara that proble isnt working any way..BTW in the old days the main road hazard's were cow's and SLOW moving truck,, with worker's in a
curve uphill at 3mph !! now ,,,I think unmarked tope's are my biggest b-tch LOL  ps..having a dog hanging out the window wearing shade's,,seem's to help,for some reason !!
[Edited on 12-15-2011 by captkw]
[Edited on 12-15-2011 by captkw]
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vgabndo
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Folks who have been doing this know what to do, but new folks, may be missing the one thing I think is most important. If you can carry on a lengthy
conversation with the officer in his language, and especially if you've done nothing wrong you can respectfully stand your ground. If he's just
running a fishing hole, after he watches too many fat fishes swim by, he's likely to make a new cast. The sticker they used to give away at the
tourist place in San Quintin that said in Spanish, "tourism is beneficial to everyone", got my off at the end of a 10 minute stand-off in Ensenada!
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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captkw
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vagabundo
awsome reply and the IT"S true,,,by the way you do know "FOSTER's" in rio vista,ca. ???
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vgabndo
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Sorry I don't know Fosters. Rio Vista? Isn't that where our useless %#@&*! Congressman lives.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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captkw
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that's where the big stribper's and sturgeon live,,,also the office of..vaga del
bundo's..is located at..the gybsie's of the sea...rio vista...I think without question..the oldest baja travel club..but I dont know that for a
fact..but am rather shure...K&T
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captkw
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HOLA, amigo's..they are the oldest and best baja travel club !! but the only problem,,seem's to be that I have had with them,,,,Is I seem to be one of
the youngest....LOL...IM 52 and amd still am called the KID on the east cape..LOL what can I DO??? LOL
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by captkw
HOLA, amigo's..they are the oldest and best baja travel club !! but the only problem,,seem's to be that I have had with them,,,,Is I seem to be one of
the youngest....LOL...IM 52 and amd still am called the KID on the east cape..LOL what can I DO??? LOL |
Join Discover Baja Travel Club, but you will still be a kid...
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Fernweh
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Thanks for the image.
UPS self adhesive shipping label, covered with clear packing tape works bueno.
Karl
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DENNIS
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OK....so now everybody is hyped up about the sticker, but in my opinion, it's pretty much the same as giving a cop the finger.
That said, if anyone here was asked, "What does the sticker mean....or do?"
Could you answer the question?
Furthermore....has anyone here ever been through a process with Sindicatura?
Does the program still exist, and if yes, how do you know?
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Lee
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Isn't the Sindicatura sticker stating: if you're a cop looking for mordida based on a scam, a shake down, a fraud, you'll get an argument from the
driver of this vechicle?
If a cop thinks the sticker is the bird, so what? Don't mean a thing.
If it makes a dirty cop uncomfortable seeing the sticker, that's a good thing, isn't it?
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Marla Daily
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Thank you all for your thoughts. Yes the point of my post is so others are aware of the current corruption going on now on that hill in Tecate. Many
of these clusters of incidents seems to come and go with the season and the different employees and their political administrations. (Not long ago
there was a huge problem transiting Constitucion.)
VGABNDO is absolutely correct: "If you can carry on a lengthy conversation with the officer in his language, and especially if you've done nothing
wrong you can respectfully stand your ground."
Using this exact strategy, we were able to get out of both recent incidents in Tecate with everyone saving face and no money changing hands. My
husband says he doesn't speak Spanish and turns to me. I then let the officer(s) know that I'm a Cultural Anthropologist who lives in Loreto, and that
I am studying the first families of the Baja California peninsula, and have been doing so for more than 20 years. I ask their last names and where
they were born; I make small talk about Baja California history.
Through the years, we've been stopped a half-dozen times without cause: several times along the Tijuana border fence; in Insurgentes; and twice in
Tecate. Knock on wood—it has worked thus far.
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captkw
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SE,clarro ! did I spell that right??
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