Sounds like you didnt get shot at all did you? People get "relieved" of cash and/or beer all the time, but that doesnt mean that our rather corrupt law enforcement will just shoot you for no reason (not stopping at an army checkpoint will turn your car into a strainer, but I digress) my advice for y'all coming into Mexico is: learn how to bribe without getting ripped off first tell them to write you a ticket, they might hold your license, big deal! thats property of your state/country, just get a new one when you get back home, they'll usually let you go if you insist that they write you a ticket specially if they stopped you for no reason. Now, if you did screw up and you know it, get a smaller note out like 100 pesos and say thats all you've got or are willing to give them, most will take it off your hands before you can say huh? If they're set in getting more money from you go back to step 1 and tell them to write you a ticket, go back home, get new license. One other thing that helps is having your camera handy when getting pulled over, take pictures or video of the officer trying to bribe you, some are ignorant to the point of posing for it but this is a two edged sword as some other officer might try to get it off your hands since you have proof of their corruption. Again, use common sense, be nice to the police and you'll be out of trouble.
this is quite the lengthy subject, if someone wishes to keep discussing it, I suggest we take it to the OT list, Nico On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:03 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > One fine day not too far south of Juarez I was tootling along when I ran > into a checkpoint manned by a bunch of guys in orange jumpsuits who I > presumed to be Federales. They were massively armed with all sorts of high > powered automatic and semiautomatic rifles and pistols which they were > unloading like armageddon at a large number of whiskey and tequila bottles > lined up on the hillside by the road. From that and their staggering and > swaggering demeanor I quickly concluded that they were dead drunk and that I > was soon to be dead, or at the very least relieved of some cash. Not to > worry though, for I had taken the precaution of bringing a suitable supply > of the universal solvent. No, not money, beer! When in Mexico I alway carry > two coolers, one filled with good Mexican beer which I consume myself, and > one filled with Budweiser for the Feds. So when they started to rip apart my > truck in search of whatever I simply directed them to look in cooler B. > There they found the very contraband they were looking for. Problem solved! > And to think that some poor fools suppose that guns and alcohol don't mix! > > >
