The advice Gil gives comes from the man who was shot rafting. Lightning may not strike twice though.
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Gill Edigar <[email protected]> wrote: > -----Original Message----- >> From: David [mailto:[email protected]] >> > > >> I was in the border town of Reynosa for 19 hours yesterday. >> > > I was down there on Thursday and was told that both the old Reynosa bridge > and the Pharr bridge were closed for a few hours on Tuesday or Wednesday > while the street department cleaned up some blood and brass following a > little dispute. It didn't happen at the bridges but in a *colonia* that > lies sorta in between the two, so they didn't want people turistaing around > in the area 'til the fracas settled down. > > At any rate, we are all small fish in a big ocean. Most of us don't have > anything the Zetas want--they have more money, more drugs, more cars & > pickups, and more big guns than all cavers put together. There's always a > chance that we could encounter some of them by accident--just like getting > struck by lightening, run over by a semi, or becoming voluntarily victims of > errant fear mongers. You're probably in no more danger crossing the Pharr > bridge than watching the news on Fox cable. > --Ediger >
