oldNslow wrote on 05/15/16 at 15:27:34:


This individual didn't come home after a night of drinking in Juarez.  Sometime in morning he was found bloody in a booth in a night club.  He didn't remember much and it is speculated he was given rohyonol in a drink.  While he was knocked out they took a kidney, when he was back in the US they x-rayed him to see what they took.  

Care to hear about the shake down from the Mexican police....

Best regards,

Evidently you have never been to Juarez.  

Best regards,

Juarez has the infamous distinction as one of the worlds most dangerous cities.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2993831.stm


The Mexican attorney general's office says it is investigating the possibility that a number of women murdered in the northern border town of Ciudad Juarez may have been killed by organ traffickers.

In the last 10 years more than 300 women have been murdered in the town, with several hundred more missing.

Despite a number of convictions for some of the crimes, the killings have continued.

This is just one more twist in the series of killings in Ciudad Juarez.

In a press conference in the town of Chihuahua, federal prosecutor Carlos Vega said 14 of the victims may have been kidnapped and killed so that their organs could be sold.


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Even if that is anything more that someones speculation, it is still quite different from the story about the guy waking up in a bar missing a kidney a couple of hours after someone slipped him a mickey. A scenario which is pretty much medically impossible.

I don't doubt that Juarez can be a dangerous place. Especially for folks who go there in search of Drink, drugs or the company of women for hire. Folks who basically have a sign on their back saying " here I am ! take advantage of me!"

The author of the book I recommended, being seventy something, happily married, not an idiot, and fluent in Spanish, does not present himself as that kind of easy prey, and did not frequent the locales where the predators typically congregate.

Besides, he started his ride in Veracruz, not Juarez or any of the other notorious border towns. I simply don't understand how you can dismiss what he has to say as "bullsh*t without having read the book, simply based on supposed unpleasant experiences of your own and a stupid urban myth.

Why can't you acknowledge the fact that it might be possible to ride a motorcycle from Mexico to Argentina and back without being robbed, or murdered. ?

oldNslow wrote on 05/15/16 at 19:47:14:


If you look at my original post the only portion of your statement I challenged was:
None of the awful things he was told would happen to him turned out to be true.

I didn’t say it wasn’t possible to travel through Mexico without incident.  The premise of my position is that Mexico is a very dangerous place and that is speaking from first hand experience.  Only to receive condescending and belittling comments about alligators in New York and assertions that my experiences were not forthright.  

So yes it is possible for people to have an adventure of a lifetime and some people aren’t as fortunate.



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/new-york-man-missing-mexico-article-...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/18/world/americas/missing-american-mexico/


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What a guy...

Then, Ann Devert heard from a friend who recently returned from Michoacan, where vigilante self-defense groups in numerous communities have engaged in deadly confrontations with the Knights Templar drug cartel.
After vigilantes threatened to descend on a key cartel area last month, the Mexican government sent in thousands of troops and police to try to keep the peace. The government has even joined forces with the vigilantes as the Knights Templar become further entrenched in the agricultural state.
Ann Devert had been in touch with both the American and French embassies in Mexico. Her son, born in France, has dual citizenship.
Devert's friends and family were hopeful that his disappearance was only temporary, another story to recount from his wild travels around the world -- from Pamplona, Spain, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and beyond.
"I've been chased with a gun in Colombia, chipped my tooth on a gun that was shoved in my mouth in Venezuela and shot everything from a bazooka to a machine gun, an M16 to a Colt .45," Devert wrote in his travel blog, A New Yorker Travels. "I've been in some of the poorest and some of the most dangerous parts of the world and to many of the finest, and I still can't tell which I liked more. I think that life is a pilgrimage."
In an October 19 post, Devert described his latest journey on a type of vehicle he had no experience using.
"I've never ridden a motorcycle," he wrote. "Mostly, naturally, because I don't know how. So tomorrow I'm going to go to the DMV, get my motorcycle permit, buy a bike and hopefully figure out how to ride it home without crashing. Which I'm sure will be an adventure in itself."
He added, "Then in the next 2 or 3 weeks I'm going to drive it across America, through Central America, down to Brazil for the World Cup, and eventually south to Ushuaia, which as far as I can tell from a map is about as far south as one can get on the continent."
He purchased a green 2002 Kawasaki. Ann Devert said her son took a safety course and spent hours studying YouTube videos on how to survive falls from bikes.
But the fact that he had never driven a motorcycle concerned her, she said. He promised not to travel faster than 55 mph, yet he took a nasty spill while speeding in Florida, Ann Devert said. He emerged unscathed.
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In WW2 you saw guys nonchalantly walking along the tops of the trenches, smoking cigs as bullets kicked up dirt all around them, and at least some of them didn't get shot
Doesn't mean I'd do it