Trip to Tijuana to fill prescription ends in jail time and a good scare

Sacramento BEE ^ | September 9, 2004 | Marjie Lundstrom

[Ramonan]

This illustrates what life in Mexico is really like. Be sure to read the last line

[stainlessbanner]

Put your beebers on stun mode

[cynicom]

Never go south of the border, never, ever. Nada

[theDentist]

Last line: "This opened my eyes to see how good I had it here in the U.S."

[E. Pluribus Unum]

After a visit in jail from the U.S. Consulate's office, which gave the young men a list of attorneys, they were told by one lawyer: "$5,000 and you two can leave tonight, or you're going to be in jail for five years."

Mexico.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Some days suck more than others.

[xJones]

"Immediately, they put us in the back of the van and said, 'If you have $1,000 right now, we'll let you go...' But we had no money, nothing."

After a visit in jail from the U.S. Consulate's office, which gave the young men a list of attorneys, they were told by one lawyer: "$5,000 and you two can leave tonight, or you're going to be in jail for five years."

What a maroon! He's from California and he didn't know the Mexican officials love to bust gringos because bribery is the Mexican way of life and Americans are fat pidgeons to be squeezed?

And whatever you do, don't die in Mexico. Your already grieving family will have to pay a lot of money to get your corpse out of Mexico for burial in the U.S.

[Jagdgewehr]

correctomundo

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

Just went down last Sat and got my 2 bottles of Kahlua and 2 orders of valium. Been doin' it for a couple of years now.

[kenth]

"This opened my eyes to see how good I had it here in the U.S."

Just amazing. It seems like some here are so pampered that the slightest inconvenience (such as having to pay for things) drives them nuts (the left.)

Sometimes it takes something like this to slap them back to reality.

[ruiner]

Am I the only person who finds it odd that all these people going across the border to buy mexican prescription drugs are looking for often abused drugs like Xanax and Valium.

I know they had prescriptions in the US but they could be buying extra or something.

Maybe I'm just a jerk, I dunno.

[martin_fierro]

[stainlessbanner]

Wonder if these guys drove a big green van across the border?

[GWfan]

My husband will never take me to Mexico. The only thing he says about it is that it is a 3rd world country.

[AmericanChef]

And the Mexicans are bringing all that kind of good, clean living right here to the good old USA.

[cynicom]

In the past, we learned the hard way, always bribe a cop to
look after you and any vehicle you have. It was easier.

[PAR35]

It sounds like the stay in the Mexican jail was just what the slacker needed to straighten up his life.

[joesnuffy]

Wasn't that long ago that a guy going down for a script...got searched by the Mexicans and they found a couple of 22LR ? rounds in his car....he was arrested and charged with a felony..

After he got out of the Mexican jail...the USA said that the felony charge counted against him in the USA as well and took away his firearms...

He is still not able to own firearms and has lost other rights as a result...of his bogus felony conviction in Mexico..

Last I heard anyway...he still had gotten no relief for his Mexican conviction haunting him here at home...

[joesnuffy]

Keep packing those illegals into the US and we will not only be like Mexico...we will be Mexico

imo

[rawhide]

Stupid kid!