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New border-crossing law
They are implementing a new law at the border starting this week. It is now illegal to be talking on a cellular phone or radio upon entering Mexico
from the US. The fine is up to 9,000 pesos (about $700). It is part of Mexico's new border initiative to stop the flow of arms and money.
If you read Spanish, here is the article:
http://el-mexicano.info/noticias/estatal/2009/09/16/368226/g...
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CaboRon
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This is ment to prevent point men from giving status reports to the mules who are waiting to cross ...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by CaboRon
This is ment to prevent point men from giving status reports to the mules who are waiting to cross ... |
Actually, it's ridiculous. How would they know who's talking on a hands-free device?
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maybe your lips were moving and you're by yourself.....
laws will be rigorously enterpreted on a case by case basis....
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It could be a camera concern. Or are they hands free too?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by k-rico
It could be a camera concern. Or are they hands free too? |
Could be if it was important enough to somebody.
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I will be telling all my drug-taking aquaintenances in the US to load up, as this will drop the importation of drugs to near zero.
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by k-rico
It could be a camera concern. Or are they hands free too? |
Could be if it was important enough to somebody. |
It might be important to the cops working the border. It can be a dangerous job.
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What exactly are the laws about cell phone use and driving in Mexico? I thought it was illegal but maybe similar to California's (totally ignored)
laws of not using hand held devices? To me the beauty of entering Baja is turning the damn thing off.
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Last time we crossed going North (in the SENTRI lane), our ticket booth person (I have to come up with a better name for them) got all agitated about
the fact my wife was, at that time, calling our son in the states to let him know we were back (So he would have time to clean up the party he most
likely had at our house). He (Disneyland ticket puncher) wanted to confiscate her phone to make sure we had not taken pictures of him that might end
up on the internet.
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a good idea!!!
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You may also be concerned that when you enter (three cars behind) the US border station they have sensitive listening devises that can hear
conversations you have in your car. I have a friend who works the border.
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Wow, are those devices going to be pointed at our homes, next? '1984' arrives in 2009!
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Several years ago - about 6 - I was told by border agents that talking on a phone in the border zone (from where you cross into the US to the point
you leave the facility was forbidden. This is nothing new heading northbound.
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And in the San Felipe area - check out Valle Chico area |
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I'm concerned about the drive thru x-ray machines the US is using upon entry to secondary inspection. Specifically, I'm wondering what the absorbed
dose is to the driver.
There is no threshold dose of ionizing radiation below which it is harmless. The probability of damage just gets smaller.
Border guard to driver - "Just drive through that machine, it probably won't hurt you."
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by CaboRon
This is ment to prevent point men from giving status reports to the mules who are waiting to cross ... |
Actually, it's ridiculous. How would they know who's talking on a hands-free device? |
Oh please. Mexican drivers have just figured out how to hold the phone with one hand and sort-of drive with the other. Hands-free is still a decade
away.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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| Quote: | Originally posted by duke62
Last time we crossed going North (in the SENTRI lane), our ticket booth person (I have to come up with a better name for them) got all agitated about
the fact my wife was, at that time, calling our son in the states to let him know we were back (So he would have time to clean up the party he most
likely had at our house). He (Disneyland ticket puncher) wanted to confiscate her phone to make sure we had not taken pictures of him that might end
up on the internet. |
Put down your cell phone, turn down the radio and wind down all your windows for the 30 seconds you are in the inspection area.
I took a video of the "ticket booth" guy once in a sweeping panoramic manner and he made me delete them as he watched. I still posted it on YouTube
though.
[Edited on 9-17-2009 by Woooosh]
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
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Ticket Booth takers
For those of you that have such little respect for the "ticket takers", perhaps if you had not been kicked out of the Boy Scouts, refused a job as a
security officer for your local shopping mall, had grown to 6ft or taller,not been able to get a prom date, not been given a speeding ticket when
everyone else was doing it too, was passed over for promotion by a less qualified person, was never the "employee of the year", get over it! Keep the
info coming but leave out the personal small talk coments.thank you, Carl
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
Oh please. Mexican drivers have just figured out how to hold the phone with one hand and sort-of drive with the other. Hands-free is still a decade
away. |
Waddaya mean? They've been driving mind-free forever.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by noproblemo2
These "people" make everyone look bad if this kind of behavior is permitted.. |
Who's everyone and how does it make "everyone" look bad?
What do you care if others have a civil discussion? Do you want to join in?
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