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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: philw on October 23, 2009, 06:51:08 AM
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WARNING - link to EXTREMELY GRAPHIC PICTURES of dead bodies so if you are squeezy, Soft, Don't want to see ( I understand ) ,
then DON'T open the link.
I warned you
http://www.ehowa.com/features/matamoroscartel.shtml
BROWNSVILLE — University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College is closed for the weekend after officials said bullets from a shootout in Mexico hit a building and a car on campus.
University police on Friday asked students and faculty to leave campus after bullets were found to have struck the Recreation, Education and Kinesiology Center, also known as the REK building, and a car at the Life and Health Sciences building.
UTB/TSC police Lt. Armando Pullido said students on Friday were being asked to avoid buildings on the south side of campus.
“We’re closing down the campus at 5 p.m.,” he said. “Students are being asked to leave.”
The school will be closed until Tuesday.
UTB/TSC Public Information Director Letty Fernandez confirmed bullets struck the building and car.
The shooting reportedly began about 1:30 p.m. near Calle Primera and Calle Canales. Neighbors in the area said they heard gunshots and loud explosions for more than an hour.
The gunfire was said to have spread to the intersection of Calle Nicaragua and Calle Acapulco in Colonia Delicias. The Mexican army seized a refrigerator from a home in the area, but it was unclear why. The army declined to comment, stating a news release would be sent out soon.
As the gunfire continued, Mexican soldiers with the 10th Motorized Cavalry Regiment closed off major streets in Matamoros to keep the public from carelessly driving into the area were the shooting was taking place.
“We are sorry, ma’am, but for your safety we are asking you to back up your car and leave the area,” a masked soldier said to an elderly woman who drove toward a military Humvee that was blocking off Calle Primera.
A white SUV was left riddled with bullet holes along one of the side streets in the colonia.
More than 20 military Humvees and almost a dozen federal police trucks with .50-caliber machine guns and automatic grenade launchers mounted on the roofs left toward the army station at Calle 8 and Calle Gonzalez.
Soldiers on foot escorted the convoy along Gonzalez.
Passersby curiously pointed at a large white refrigerator that was being taken to the military installation under heavy guard.
A maroon automobile with bullet holes was abandoned during the shooting near the Calle Primera offices of El Bravo newspaper.
Eddie Perez, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection field supervisor, said there were no plans to close any of the international bridges between Brownsville and Matamoros.
In response to the shooting in Mexico, Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio said he dispatched his deputies to the bridges and to the river levees to prevent any violence from spilling over to the U.S. side of the border.
“They (the Mexican army) are doing a very good job in their fight on drugs,” Lucio said. “We mobilized our manpower just as a precaution. The problem is that when a bullet exits the barrel, its direction is anyone’s guess. That’s why we need to take precautions.”
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That's how they should deal with American drug dealers too.
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That's how they should deal with American drug dealers too.
Drug DEALERS are not the problem. No market / No drug dealers.
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legalize it, tax it and you cure one whole hell of a lot of problems, save monies on police, jails, etc and make money in tax revenue.
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legalize it, tax it and you cure one whole hell of a lot of problems, save monies on police, jails, etc and make money in tax revenue.
They'd just cheat on their taxes...........run for office..........win.........and get off for free.......... ;D ;D
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legalize it, tax it and you cure one whole hell of a lot of problems, save monies on police, jails, etc and make money in tax revenue.
Do away with the war on some drugs and you eliminate an entire Federal bureaucracy.
Billions spent every year on a program that has been an abject failure for 80 years or more if you count Alcohol prohibition (that worked well )
Plus the tax revenue.
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It looks like the driver of the SUV has a splitting headache right now! ;)
Did anyone catch the M-16s and the AK lying on the ground? And did anyone notice the one dead body wearing body armor, or at least a tactical vest?
As for legalizing drugs, I think that is in the not-too-distant future; especially if they want to find money to pay for Obamacare........I think they will start with marijuana.......
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I'm wondering if those aren't plainclothes cops. They all seem to be uniformly well groomed, and the weapons, except for the AK near the guy in the Tactical vest are all AR's. BG's aren't exactly known for their uniformity. Also the fact that they are in or around the vehicle which has its plate number obscured .
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Dang the guy in the front seat got his wig split. :o
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Dang the guy in the front seat got his wig split. :o
A sure-cure for those dreaded sinus woes. ;)
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A sure-cure for those dreaded sinus all of life's woes. ;)
Kinda focused it for ya!
RIP - BG or not, hell of a way to go.
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I had to rescue family from Sinaloa 6 months ags because of shit like that. My dad my cousin and myself had to arm ourselves with arms that the Mexican consulate said would keep us within there laws. They had to draw up paper work for us the get across the border and get my uncle and aunt out of there in a hurry. Man the minute we got there it was eyes on us, people were curious about the outsiders. Hell we spent the longest knight i ever had there, shit i didnt go the restroom without my gun. We left ther in such a hurry we forgot the cat. My cousin an Iraq vet was scared shitless.
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I had to rescue family from Sinaloa 6 months ags because of shit like that. My dad my cousin and myself had to arm ourselves with arms that the Mexican consulate said would keep us within there laws. They had to draw up paper work for us the get across the border and get my uncle and aunt out of there in a hurry. Man the minute we got there it was eyes on us, people were curious about the outsiders. Hell we spent the longest knight i ever had there, shit i didnt go the restroom without my gun. We left ther in such a hurry we forgot the cat. My cousin an Iraq vet was scared shitless.
Sounds like a hell of an 'adventure' (for lack of a better term) or 'situation' .............. and a thread all it's own.
Glad you made it back.