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bajalou
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Need another Cop story today?
Today I was heading into town (San Felipe), and just relaxing going to get a tire fixed, deliver some stuff to a friend and get some gasoline.
I was drinking a can of Arizona Iced Tea and really not paying enough attention when I started to pull over into the left lane to pass a slightly
slower vehicle. I hear a horn blowing and see that I almost put a police pickup into the center divider.
I pulled back to my lane and off to the sholder - which is as wide as a traffic lane here. About then the police lights come on and he pulles up
behind me. I shut off the motor and wait and he comes up and begins talking very rapidly in Spanish. I held up the can and showed him it was "te".
My Spanish is limited and no good at all for fast speakers, but I kept saying "Yes I was wrong and not paying enough attention" & "Mi muy
stupido" and ""no attention". Note - I hadn't fastened my seat belt eigher.
He then asks for my license - which I gave him. He looked at it and said some more - I think about how dumb I am - then asked "Donde su casa?'' - I
replied, Rancho El Dorado. Then asked where I was going and I told him "LLantera y amigo in San Felipe." A few more seconds of rapid fire chewing
out, and he handed my back my license and said "andelante'" and went back to his truck and took off to town.
I fastened my seat belt, and continued on my way.
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Udo
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I guess you got lucky!
Udo
Youth is wasted on the young!
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vacaenbaja
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THATwas a nice cop. They do exist in Baja. Good to hear a no mordida/ shakedown encounter.
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Bajajack
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Actually he was a bad cop, think about it.
\"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.\'
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Bajahowodd
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No winning possible. If he had cited bajalou for erratic driving, sought a mordita or took her to the court, he'd have been a good cop, but a bad
host? The beat goes on.
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redhilltown
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A friend just got back from San Felipe and said he met a U.S. lady who was there for the first time and said she got a ticket for (get this): having
too many people in the back of her pick up truck! Thank GOD they are finally enforcing this rule in Mexico! Luckily, it seem legit in as much as they
took her to the station to pay the small fine as opposed to shaking her down.
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by redhilltown
A friend just got back from San Felipe and said he met a U.S. lady who was there for the first time and said she got a ticket for (get this): having
too many people in the back of her pick up truck! Thank GOD they are finally enforcing this rule in Mexico! Luckily, it seem legit in as much as they
took her to the station to pay the small fine as opposed to shaking her down. |
One person (or child) in the back of a pickup is very dangerous ......
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motoged
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This isn't a cop story....it's a "Gringa-driving-without-paying- attention-and-is-lucky" story
Don't believe everything you think....
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sancho
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Recently read a book 'Gringos in Paradise'
guy builds a place 30 mi. No of P Vallarta,
good look into the customs of Mex,
anyway, there was a paragraph about
some locals bounced out of the back of
a pickup after hitting a tope at speed,
resulting in a couple deaths.
Apparently not uncommon.
Heard there was an extra 300 cops in
San Felipe over last weekend, Semana Santa
Weekend
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LaTijereta
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Could have taken place in Florida?
A Florida senior citizen drove his brand new Corvette convertible out of the dealership. Taking off down the road , he floored it .... at 80 mph he
was enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left.
"Amazing," he thought as he flew down I-75, pushing the pedal farther.
Looking in his rearview mirror, he saw a state trooper behind him,blue lights flashing, and siren blaring. He accelerated to 100 mph, then 110, then
120...
Suddenly he thought, "What am I doing? I'm too old for this," and pulled over to await the trooper's arrival.
Pulling in behind him, the trooper walked up to the Corvette, looked at his watch and said, "Sir, my shift ends in 30 minutes.. Today is Friday. If
you can give me a reason for speeding that I have never heard before, I'll let you go.
The old gentleman paused, then said, "Years ago, my wife ran off with a Florida State Trooper. I thought you were bringing her back!"
"Have a good day sir," replied the trooper.
Democracy is like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Ben Franklin (1759)
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Pompano
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This took place right outside of La Paz...I was told.
A driver is pulled over by a policeman. The police man approaches the driver's door.
"Is there a problem Officer?"
The policeman says, "Sir, you were speeding. Can I see your licence please?"
The driver responds, "I'd give it to you but I don't have one."
"You don't have one?"
The man responds, "I lost it four times for drink driving."
The policeman is shocked. "I see. Can I see your vehicle registration papers please?"
"I'm sorry, I can't do that."
The policeman says, "Why not?"
"I stole this car."
The officer says, "Stole it?"
The man says, "Yes, and I killed the owner."
At this point the officer is getting irate. "You what!?"
"She's in the boot if you want to see."
The Officer looks at the man and slowly backs away to his car and calls for back up. Within minutes, five police cars show up, surrounding the car. A
senior officer slowly approaches the car, clasping his half drawn gun.
The senior officer says "Sir, could you step out of your vehicle please!"
The man steps out of his vehicle. "Is there a problem sir?"
"One of my officers told me that you have stolen this car and murdered the owner."
"Murdered the owner?"
The officer responds, "Yes, could you please open the boot of your car please?"
The man opens the boot, revealing nothing but an empty boot.
The officer says, "Is this your car sir?"
The man says "Yes," and hands over the registration papers.
The officer, understandably, is quite stunned. "One of my officers claims that you do not have a driving licence."
The man digs in his pocket revealing a wallet and hands it to the officer. The officer opens the wallet and examines the licence. He looks quite
puzzled. "Thank you sir, one of my officers told me you didn't have a licence, stole this car, and murdered the owner."
The man replies, "I bet you the lying burro told you I was speeding, too!"
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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vacaenbaja
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajajack
Actually he was a bad cop, think about it. |
There is the "letter of the law" and the "spirit of the law"
Often times law enforcement officers use their discretion as to how much the forementioned weighs in the balance.
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BAJACAT
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Instated of onpeing a new thread I will contribute on this one I hope you don't mind Lou.I haven't been stop in Baja in a long time, this past friday
i went to TJ to visit my wifes family and to buy some groceries, well on the way back to the sates around 11:00PM ,right in front of CENTRO CULTURAL,
a police truck come from a side rd, I was half way on the ramp to get to the border when he turn on is flashers, IM THINKING TO MY SELF WHAT DID I DO
WRONG, I stop 2 police officers come out the truck one on my side the other on the passanger side,pointing is flash light at my truck, "HE TELLS ME,
DO YOU KNOW WHY I STOP YOU, I ANSWER NO, HE SAYS BECAUSE OF YOUR TINTED WINDOWS THAT IS ILLEGAL IN MEXICO", I said officer i don't come to often to
mexico thats why I haven't removed the tint.H e ask for my documents and from where I was coming and where I was going, You see with this type of
vehicle that you have and the tinted windows is a bad combination you haven't seen all the bad things in the news lately he says.Just when I was about
to give him my papers, he very polite toll me Ok sir you can continue with your trip and he left, for one minute I was thinking of how much the
MORDIDA was going to be, but this time I had a good cop on my side...
BAJA IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO BE, FUN,DANGEROUS,INCREDIBLE, REMOTE, EXOTIC..JUST GO AND HAVE FUN.....
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bajalou
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Good story Jose, thanks
No Bad Days
\"Never argue with an idiot. People watching may not be able to tell the difference\"
\"The trouble with doing nothing is - how do I know when I\'m done?\"
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TMW
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LaTijereta and Pompano, Thanks.
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Paulina
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vacaenbaja
THATwas a nice cop. They do exist in Baja. Good to hear a no mordida/ shakedown encounter. |
He could have cited Lou for driving without his seatbelt. It was Lou's lucky day.
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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fishingmako
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And you was thinking how much the MORDITA was going to be? that means you had anticipated on paying them. I don't know how and what it is going to
take to get people not to pay these BRIBES, If we continue, there will never be an end in sight.
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Bajahowodd
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You could say that the mordita is a Mexican tradition. I'm not going to try and justify it, but remember that there is a difference between a total
setup just to make cash, and an actual infraction. I totally do not support any sort of traps. But, until they pay a decent wage to the police in
Mexico, I can at least understand when the revenue goes directly to personal use like feeding the kids, rather than to some corrupt bureaucracy.
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fishingmako
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I agree on an actual infraction, I can deal with that, but not the everyday BS, they will never pay a decent wage, so that means their support will
come from people to whom they can intimidate, and for the people they can continue to intimidate, that means the more people they can stop and demand
MORDITA.
I'm just saying stand up to them and quit letting them scare you.
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Bajahowodd
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Agree with you when it is a total setup. Another issue is that in the good old days, mordita was a form of entertainment. Paying a cop 200 Pesos was
similar to the idea that people who frequent casinos espouse. "I'm paying for the entertainment". From what I've seen recently, some of these guys
have tried to extricate hundreds of dollars, especially in TJ. Not worth the price of the entertainment.
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