Posted on 12/23/2004 7:34:32 AM PST by Rakkasan1
MANKATO, Minn. -- A wayward Mexican man who hopped a few wrong trains and ended up in a garbage truck in Mankato is headed back to warmer climates, thanks to the help of strangers.
Juan Rivera, 46, left his home in Juarez, Mexico, last week. He slipped into El Paso, Texas and went to Riverside, Calif., to look for a temporary job. When he couldn't find work, he asked someone which train headed back to El Paso.
But the train went to the wrong city. So he got on another train, then another. Somehow he ended up in Mankato in the middle of the night, according to Blue Earth County Sheriff Brad Peterson, who heard Rivera's story through an interpreter. Rivera does not speak English.
Wearing only jeans and three shirts, Rivera walked to a convenience store and crawled into a trash bin to stay warm.
At about 5:30 a.m. Monday, a Waste Management garbage truck dumped the contents of the trash bin, including Rivera, into the truck.
When the truck got to its next stop, Rivera crawled out the back and the driver called 911. Rivera was treated at a local hospital for minor injuries to his head, shoulder and fingers.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
... a little shorter, to be sure, but heading back nonetheless.
He shoulda just headed over to Pa Ingalls sawmill, just outside of Mankato.
"Smith said that while Johnson had not paid income taxes in several decades, the Internal Revenue Service had no interest in him. Having broken no local laws, and considering his impending retirement, Smith told Johnson he was free to go."
Yeah, that's what happened. He got on the right train, but it went to the wrong city. Happens all the time.
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What an ordeal. He must be begging to go back to Mexico.
...Mankato, MN of all places...
The Bureau's stance is curious. I eagerly await the day when this stance is adopted by other Federal agencies:
"Smith said that while Johnson had not paid income taxes in several decades, the Internal Revenue Service had no interest in him. Having broken no local laws, and considering his impending retirement, Smith told Johnson he was free to go."
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You've made the case, and it's clear! lol
America became great because of a number of things. IMHO it was because the foundation was built on The Bible and the rule of law. BRAVE men gave their life and all their fortunes to make this a great country.
Now we have let greedy, self serving politicians and judges turn everything upside down. The pros far outweigh the cons in allowing millions of people to enter America and actually become Americans. The very FIRST thing they do, every single one of them is break the law.
They will never have any respect for our laws. They come from a nation where lawbreaking is considered a part of life. We are crazy to think they will assimilate when we print voting guides in spanish. This is the world turned upside down to allow a certain type of people to break laws and not be punished. This will come back (it already is) to hurt America and its people. Our children and their children will grow up in a different America. We are crippling them and their chances to catch the American dream.
Another terribly written headline. This sounds as if the Mexican was compacted while the garbage truck was travelling south, and that the compacting took place due to the donors.
Which would be much funnier, if you ask me!
If that had happened in Toronto, he would have ended up in a landfill here in S.E. Michigan.
Peterson said although Rivera was in the country illegally, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement had no interest in him. Having broken no local laws, and considering his harrowing experience, Peterson told Rivera he was free to go.
We have no immigration control, period. And what is this nonsense about his harrowing experience, as if that is some sort of get out of jail free card.
Yet another hospital bill for the taxpayers of this country to pay.
Or how about "Officer Jones let Smith go after Smith explained the only reason he was going 110 mph was because he was late for work. As Jones put it 'hey he's just a hardworking guy trying to support his family. We in law enforcement have no interest in prosecuting someone who's just trying to get to work'".
maybe they do this on purpose? that's what made me read it- to try to figure out what actually happened...
thanks! I'm going to use that next time I'm going 110.
Impossible. In America, people who don't have health insurance can't go to the hospital --- at least that's what the Rats have people in Europe and Canada, (including some Euro & Canadian Freepers) believing.
Senior Rivera --- welcome to Minnesota -- eh? Now go home.
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