Posted on 07/05/2012 4:38:46 PM PDT by robowombat
EL PASO, Texas — A Mexican court has authorized a re-enactment of events leading to the arrest of a Dallas trucker who says he made a wrong turn into Mexico while driving a vehicle filled with ammunition.
Jabin Bogan's attorney says experts and prosecutors will attend the Thursday re-enactment of the moment when Bogan tried to make a U-turn at a border crossing bridge at Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Bogan has been jailed since the April 17 incident in which he was found with 268,000 bullets inside his 18-wheeler.
Bogan has claimed his GPS malfunctioned. Mexican customs officials testified he was trying to turn around and, when asked, showed paperwork showing the ammunition was destined for a wholesaler in Arizona.
(Excerpt) Read more at homeland1.com ...
If Mexico releases him the Obama administration will likely prosecute him for attempting to bring the ammunition back into the country.
You just have to wonder why in the world we have anything to do with that cesspool on our southern border. Mexico has been a $hitthole since I was a child and it’s getting worse by the day. Seal it off from the US and let them do whatever they want to to each other. Several years ago, I was forced by business to go to Tijuana for a day. Crossing the border from San Diego is a real awakener. Dead animals in the streets, unpaved streets, crap everywhere. You have to buy a visa to go there on business and they don’t even trust their own border agents to collect the fee. You have to go down the street to a bank, give them the money, and get a receipt.
I tell people quite often: DO NOT TRUST GPS!
They never listen.
Then they end up sitting in places they don’t want to be.
I see it at my job, truck pulls up to the truck exit past the sign plainly visible that says “truck EXIT, NO TRUCKS” and ask for one of several warehouses.
None of which are anywhere near my truck exit.
I ask them if they bothered to read the signs, they always answer “Yes”.
And wen I ask them if they saw anything at all indicating that Home Depot, Do It Best, UPS or Storm King were anywhere within the premises, they sit there for ten minutes telling me how their GPS told them it is.
After thirty minutes they finally get the idea that no, what they are looking for indeed is NOT there.
Then they yell at me like it is my fault they ignored the signs.
“.. made a wrong turn into Mexico ...”?? Really? GPS failed? My bs-meter is pegged. I imagine anyone hauling that kind of cargo would be extremely aware of where they are at all times - ignoring any navigation system - especially when driving near the border with Mexico. Nah, this just may have been a Fast-&-Furious (aka, Murdergate) participant who got busted by legit federales, and is now cut off from any witHolder/DOJ support.
He’s just lucky his GPS didn’t send him down Martin Luther King Blvd around 2 AM.
I've found that the best GPS is a good map and a sense of direction.
No border office? No sign “Welcome to Mexico”?
Should have told them he was working for the BATF.
Of course it was a mistake. The truck works for Holder and the ATF.
So what's the big deal? I could see the Mehicans getting torqued if he was carrying ammo, but without the shells and powder, the bullets are just hunks of metal.
Oh... and "gimmie back my bullets" too.
Response from the Democrat National Committee: MY GAWD, man!!!! Have you any idea how many votes you're talking about?!?!?
Well, really, my bs meter is bleeping loudly as well. To get into Mexico from El Paso you either have to drive over a big bridge or over a humongous bridge. It would be impossible to miss. You can’t just make a “wrong turn.” The GPS is not designed to over-ride your own eyes.
They never listen.
Then they end up sitting in places they don’t want to be.
I see the same thing here where I live where the desert meets the mountains. Tourists driving low centered rental cars, blindly following GPS over rugged, remote, dirt roads into Death Valley during Summer when it is 125 degrees there. Others trying to follow closed roads in Winter covered by 30 feet of snow, all because their GPS said it was OK.
Normally I would agree with you, and it may turn out you are right if more comes out about this...but as I remember this trucking company hires foreigners that either do NOT speak English or barely do. I have to say I do know of many that have been confused in El Paso and ended up in Juarez, there are plain signs on freeway exits so am not sure how it happens.
Normally I would agree with you, and it may turn out you are right if more comes out about this...but as I remember this trucking company hires foreigners that either do NOT speak English or barely do. I have to say I do know of many that have been confused in El Paso and ended up in Juarez, there are plain signs on freeway exits so am not sure how it happens.
I still like how the truck drivers insist that it is somehow my fault.
GPS, the great destroyer.
How many of those tourists never get found until well baked and mummified?
In one case, from last year, an off-duty cop stumbled upon the skeletons of some German tourists who disappeared some nine years earlier after taking their rental car off road in Death Valley.
Yeesh.
Here it’s just annoying and death only comes from someone hitting a semi that is in the middle of being stupid.
Like pulling a u-turn in the middle of a two lane road.
[That bonehead took out a power pole with that stunt, he somehow missed the car though.]
Had another driver back his semi into a car and keep going, pushing the car along.
His excuse, “They were in my way.”
Yup, another GPS related “Duh” move, he took his truck down a road that had a bridge too low for him.
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