Oso
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Yeah, that'll work
This "public service" billboard has a clever concept. (Sorry I don't have a zoom lens) It says "With the Coyote nothing is secure, not even your
life" with "no more crosses on the border" in the corner. The picture, if not clear to you, shows men, presumably illegals, trekking through the
desert. The shadow of the first one looks like a coyote and the shadows of the others crosses.
Just one detail... This billboard is on the west side of Hwy 95 near Gadsden, AZ, about 4 miles north of the border. The sign faces north. So, to
get the message one needs to be in the United States, traveling south toward Mexico. Maybe it's intended for the deportees aboard the "Green Stripe
Express" that pass this way daily on their way to being dumped in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora.
[Edited on 9-15-2007 by Oso]
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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Oso
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Not so easy anymore. If they nab you a second time, they keep you awhile.
Arizona body count: 181 so far this year, mostly dehydration, sunstroke etc.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
Arizona body count: 181 so far this year, mostly dehydration, sunstroke etc. |
Don't forget stupidity.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
Arizona body count: 181 so far this year, mostly dehydration, sunstroke etc. |
Don't forget stupidity. |
never underestimate , desire and used car salesmens..
Albert G
Remember, if you haven\'t got a smile on your face and laughter in your heart, then you are just a sour old fart!....
The most precious thing we have is life, yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.
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DENNIS
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Thanks Al, but, if I want something, anything, I won't walk into a forest fire to get it.
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Lucky you, Dennis.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by danaeb
Lucky you, Dennis. |
Yes indeed. But, for the grace of God..........
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Oso, 181 found........................makes me wonder how many weren't.
I have a friend here in Oaxaca whose 15 year old son will more likly be going North in the next year or two. Pancho's dream is to go search for his
father disappeared for 12 years now and of course the great green bucks.
When I talk with Maria, her greatest hope is that the reason her husband never came home is that he found another wife, another life..... Much
perferable to the alternative, dead or in jail, ya know. Pues, ni modo.
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I was traveling from San Diego to Calexico and noticed a number of bottles with flags. Are the bottles still being filled with water? I hope so!
bacquito
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Oso
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Stupid is an easy assessment for us to make from here, I live here and I spend as little time as I have to out of the AC from May to October. I do
not equate lack of knowledge (or education) with lack of intelligence. The majority of the dead the BP scrape up in the Goldwater range come from
Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, or other points south, where they have no experience or knowledge of the desert. Stupid? Maybe. Gullible? Desperate? Almost
certainly, and ready to believe the coyote about the "short walk" across to I-8 where they'll be picked up for the last ride to glory.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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They've been desperate all of their lives. The consequences of entering the desert, middle of summer or winter, has been common knowledge to
everybody within earshot of an immigration activist. That would be everywhere in Mexico. To ignore the well known facts of danger is nothing less
than stupid. 181 people, this year to date, will agree. Illegal entry should be mandated to be a Fall or Spring event. The governments sanction
everything else about the occurance.
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