TLBaja79
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Police Checkpoints Baja Sur
Been driving around southern Baja over the past couple weeks Loreto to Cabo and back. There are a few Municipal Police Checkpoints along the way.
One was asking about booze and warning me the road is very dangerous, another looking over the inside of my car and then told me to turn on my
headlights.
It seems to me they are DUI checkpoints of sorts.
I don't drink on Hwy 1 so I'm in the clear but just giving out a heads up.
[Edited on 4-10-2015 by TLBaja79]
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Quote: Originally posted by TLBaja79  | Been driving around southern Baja over the past couple weeks Loreto to Cabo and back. There are a few Municipal Police Checkpoints along the way.
One was asking about booze and warning me the road is very dangerous, another looking over the inside of my car and then told me to turn on my
headlights.
It seems to me they are DUI checkpoints of sorts.
I don't drink on Hwy 1 so I'm in the clear but just giving out a heads up. |
In Mexico Semana Santa (Easter) specially this weekend (Viernes Santo -Good Friday-) stands for the highest traffic accidents on the highways: people
trying to get there or out of there, drinking or just in party mode, tired or with a hanghover... so the authorities of all levels get involved to
help keep roads safer, you can see them all over the place even out in the middle of nowhere you can find check points and rescue stations... just
trying to help... If possible and if you do not have to be on the road during this holiday: DONT! it's extremely dangerous!!! Stay safe, stay home...
let the crowd blow off steam and watch everything go back to normal after next week... gooood everyone back home... those who made it!!!
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The La Ribera police occasionally set those up on the road out to Hwy 1.
There are also new semi-permanent checkpoints just north and south of La Paz, and just north of SJD airport. Last couple of months those were manned
by estatal and federales.
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| Quote: Originally posted by TLBaja79 | Been driving around southern Baja over the past couple weeks .......
It seems to me they are DUI checkpoints of sorts.
I don't drink on Hwy 1 so I'm in the clear but just giving out a heads up.
[Edited on 4-10-2015 by TLBaja79] |
TL,
What highway DO you drink on? 
Don't believe everything you think....
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coming home from our semana santa camping trip last Monday, we ran into a police booze alcometro...a breathalizer! Luckily the cop had a Hummer
stopped and blowing into the gadget so we got waved through. Juan said he wasnt gonna blow into that thing unless they had a disposable mouthpiece for
it...glad we didnt have to deal with it! Never seen one before...it was just south of Sta.Rosalia
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| Quote: Originally posted by shari | | coming home from our semana santa camping trip last Monday, we ran into a police booze alcometro...a breathalizer! Luckily the cop had a Hummer
stopped and blowing into the gadget so we got waved through. Juan said he wasnt gonna blow into that thing unless they had a disposable mouthpiece for
it...glad we didnt have to deal with it! Never seen one before...it was just south of Sta.Rosalia |
I wouldn't blow anything without a disposable mouthpiece either!
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I think I would use a plastic baggie and cut a hole just large enough to fit the mouth piece if I had to blow into it or go to jail.
Udo
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I had a TJ motorcycle cop once ask me to blow into his face.
I think the reference to not drinking on 1, may or not, mean
after turning onto a dirt side road a Pacifico may be opened. I
may have done that at least once back in the day. Interesting how getting a bit older some things take on different importance
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I think gin will sterilize the mouth piece won't it
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| Quote: Originally posted by motoged | | Quote: Originally posted by TLBaja79 | Been driving around southern Baja over the past couple weeks .......
It seems to me they are DUI checkpoints of sorts.
I don't drink on Hwy 1 so I'm in the clear but just giving out a heads up.
[Edited on 4-10-2015 by TLBaja79] |
TL,
What highway DO you drink on? |
The road from Rancho Grande store to the beach.
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Police check points
A friend and fellow fisherman was stopped at the police check point north of Cabo on the Todo Santos road on his way back to the states. They had him
open his ice chest where he had several pounds of dorado filets. The asked him to show his fishing license, which he had left at his home in Cabo.
He had to call a neighbor to bring his licenses to the check point. He was informed that he appeared to have more than a daily limit for both his and
his wife's licenses. He could either pay for the excess or go back to Cabo and buy another license to cover the excess. These filets were accumulated
over the winter and not a daily catch. These were local police and not federales. I often fly home with frozen fish which would amount to more than
a daily limit, what to do?
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| Quote: Originally posted by Hooker33 | | A friend and fellow fisherman was stopped at the police check point north of Cabo on the Todo Santos road on his way back to the states. They had him
open his ice chest where he had several pounds of dorado filets. The asked him to show his fishing license, which he had left at his home in Cabo.
He had to call a neighbor to bring his licenses to the check point. He was informed that he appeared to have more than a daily limit for both his and
his wife's licenses. He could either pay for the excess or go back to Cabo and buy another license to cover the excess. These filets were accumulated
over the winter and not a daily catch. These were local police and not federales. I often fly home with frozen fish which would amount to more than
a daily limit, what to do? |
Show him a picture of your "first" fish... Limit is two person..
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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That is the biggest damn dorado I have ever seen and I caught one that, on a legitimate scale, weighed 58 lbs. Mine was probably 3/4 of the size of
that.
How much did that thing weigh?
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Andres Cota? No?
That photo may be deceptive because of the size of the guys holding it. Apparently it was not weighed, but the fork length was measured at 62.25".
That's 5 feet 2 1/4 inches. A big dorado but not the monster it would have been if held by a couple of six footers.
http://internationalfishingnews.blogspot.mx/2011/06/dennis-b...
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Before you wrap or vacuum seal and freeze the packages, write the date, type of fish and weight on each one with a permanent marker
| Quote: Originally posted by Hooker33 | | A friend and fellow fisherman was stopped at the police check point north of Cabo on the Todo Santos road on his way back to the states. They had him
open his ice chest where he had several pounds of dorado filets. The asked him to show his fishing license, which he had left at his home in Cabo.
He had to call a neighbor to bring his licenses to the check point. He was informed that he appeared to have more than a daily limit for both his and
his wife's licenses. He could either pay for the excess or go back to Cabo and buy another license to cover the excess. These filets were accumulated
over the winter and not a daily catch. These were local police and not federales. I often fly home with frozen fish which would amount to more than
a daily limit, what to do? |
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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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| Quote: Originally posted by Hooker33 | | A friend and fellow fisherman was stopped at the police check point north of Cabo on the Todo Santos road on his way back to the states. They had him
open his ice chest where he had several pounds of dorado filets. The asked him to show his fishing license, which he had left at his home in Cabo.
He had to call a neighbor to bring his licenses to the check point. He was informed that he appeared to have more than a daily limit for both his and
his wife's licenses. He could either pay for the excess or go back to Cabo and buy another license to cover the excess. These filets were accumulated
over the winter and not a daily catch. These were local police and not federales. I often fly home with frozen fish which would amount to more than
a daily limit, what to do? |
It was a shakedown, local police have no jurisdiction over fishing limits.
"The future ain't what it used to be"
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Correcto...
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