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[*] posted on 2-4-2012 at 12:36 PM


It just doesn't fit any pattern of sensibility that in a country where cut up bodies and heads rolling around like bowling balls have become redundant, boring news, that a man would be guilty of possessing, in his truck, a folding knife with a four inch blade.
Is this considered reasonable, efficient and judicious law enforcement? Or is it what I see as extortion and armed robbery?

It is clearly the latter and I see nothing wrong with accepting and treating it as such. Assigning "letter of the law" interpretation to events in Mexico is purely a tourist oriented endeavor by the police.



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[Edited on 2-4-2012 by DENNIS]
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[*] posted on 2-4-2012 at 02:53 PM


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I have twice been stopped and told I had to go the police station - both times I said I would go, once I out waited them and had my license returned with no money exchanged, .......


Uh, what's that mean? You went to the station and ''out waited them''? At the station? And then what? No money changed hands? The cops gave up?

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.....the other time I followed them for about two blocks before they pulled over and returned my license "so they could respond to an emergency call".


So, you were on the way to the station, again. Were you planning to see the judge? Pay the fine? What were you thinking? Were both stops scams? Were you breaking any laws?

This scenario is different for gringoes coming through in an RV or camper.

This thread started with 2 scenarios. One was the scam stop for speeding -- I think it was speeding. The cop wanted the fine paid on the spot and the victim refused.

Upon searching the vic's camper, knifes were found, and the cop asked the vic to follow him to the station -- where the vic was told the fine was $500 -- and both the legitimacy of the judge and the police station were in question.

When the victim became nervous, or scared, the cops saw it and game was over.

$400? You got to be kidding! The cops must have laughed all night.
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[*] posted on 2-5-2012 at 02:30 AM


"Uh, what's that mean? You went to the station and ''out waited them''? At the station? And then what? No money changed hands? The cops gave up?"

Reply- I never got to the station in either instance, the cops were obviously (to me) waiting for an offer of cash and when it wasn't offered they gave up.
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