Posted on 02/07/2006 4:46:52 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
One injured
MEXICO CITY – Unidentified assailants tossed two hand grenades at the home of the city police chief in the Pacific coast resort of Zihuatanejo, injuring one policeman who was guarding the home, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
The Monday night incident – the latest in a continuing round of grenade attacks on the coast of southern Guerrero state – targeted the home of Hector Omar Maganda, director of public safety in Zihuatanejo, about 120 miles (200 kms) west of Acapulco.
There was no immediate word on the policeman's condition, but federal prosecutors said they would investigate the case.
In late January, police arrested a gang of nine armed men as they were driving through Zihuatanejo in a convoy of four cars.
The arrest follows a spate of more than 40 drug-related killings in Zihuatanejo and nearby Acapulco during the last year.
Several grenades have been lobbed at police facilities in Acapulco, and in late January suspected drug gunmen tried to lob a grenade at police pursuing them, but it ended up exploding inside their vehicle, killing four suspects.
This is getting eerie.
Someone forget the monthly bribe payola?
That's where my brother and his wife are currently staying/living/visiting, or whatever you call it when you sail in on a boat and hang out for several months. I'll have to ask him about it.
Presidente Bush will gladly export this feces into the United States of America for the cheap labor interests. He is destroying the base of his party and he does not care. He and his family are well taken care of in spite of the sell off of his American heritage. I say this proud!!! I know he can not defend himself!!!
Ask him how the fajitas are too. Probably made with seafood there.
Dude, no more coffe for the rest of the day.
Sorry Dude. Wrong!!! Michelob
"...in late January suspected drug gunmen tried to lob a grenade at police pursuing them, but it ended up exploding inside their vehicle, killing four suspects."
¡Cuatro Darwin Awards!
I was down there in Z-town a year ago. It's about 7 miles south of Ixtapa.
I never felt in any danger, but I was constantly harrassed by locals trying to get me to buy something. I don't like anything about that country, and I really do enjoy the other countries I've visited in Central America.
> > Subject: Darwin Awards, New ones...
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > In case you haven't received them yet, here are 2005's
> > > Darwin Awards, the annual honor
> > given to the person who improved the "gene pool" the most by killing
> > themselves in the most EXTRA- ordinarily stupid way.
> > >
> > > As always, competition this year has been keen. And this year's
> > > candidates are...
> > >
> > > #8- In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in 2 ft of
> > > water after squeezing, head first,
> > through an 18 inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.
> > >
> > > #7- A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when
> > > he ran", accidentally jogged
> > off a 100-foot-high cliff on his daily run.
> > >
> > > #6- Buxton, NC: A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had
> > > dug into the sand caved
> > in as he sat inside it. Beach goers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole
> for
> > fun, or protection from the
> > wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday
> afternoon
> > when it collapsed,
> > burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach on the outer
> banks,
> > used their hands and
> > shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge,
VA,
> > but could not reach him. It
> > took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him
while
> > about 200 people
> > looked on. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.
> > >
> > > #5- Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as he fell
> > > face-first through the ceiling of a
> > bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the long
> flashlight
> > he had placed in his
> > mouth (to keep his hands free) rammed into the base of his skull as he
hit
> > the floor.
> > >
> > > #4- Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in Selbyville, DE, as he
> > > won a bet with friends who said he
> > would not put a revolver loaded with 4 bullets into his mouth and pull
the
> > trigger.
> > >
> > > #3- Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover township, NJ, and
> > > his wife Bonnie was also
> > injured, when a quarter-stick of dynamite blew up in their car. While
> > driving around 2 AM, the bored
> > couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what
> > would happen, but apparently
> > failed to notice the window was closed.
> > >
> > > #2- TACOMA, WA. Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends
> > > when one of them said
> > they knew a person who had bungee- jumped from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge
> in
> > the middle of
> > traffic.
> > > The conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along
> > > the walkway of the bridge
> > at 4:30 AM. Upon arrival at the mid-point of the bridge they discovered
> that
> > no one had brought a
> > bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued drinking, volunteered and
pointed
> > out that a coil of
> > lineman's cable lay nearby. One end of the cable was secured around
> > Bingham's leg and the other
> > end was tied to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable
> > tightened and tore his foot off at the
> > ankle. He miraculously survived his fall into the icy river water and
was
> > rescued by 2 nearby
> > fishermen. "All I can say" said Bingham, "is that God was watching out
for
> > me on that night. There's
> > just no other explanation for it." Bingham's foot was never located.
> > >
> > > AND THE WINNER:
> > > Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) fed his
> > > constipated elephant
> > Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries,
figs
> > and prunes before
> > theplugged-up pachyderm finally let it fly, and suffocated the keeper
> under
> > 200 pounds of poop!
> > Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the
> ailing
> > elephant an olive oil enema
> > when the relieved beast unloaded on him. "The sheer force of the
> elephant's
> > unexpected defecation
> > knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock
> and
> > lay unconscious as the
> > elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of him" said
> flabbergasted
> > Paderborn police
> > detective Erik Dern. 'With no one there to help him, he lay under all
that
> > dung for at least an hour
> > before a watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated. It
seems
> > to be just one of those
> > freak accidents that proves that "Shit happens!"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > R.M.
> > >
> > >
I drove that 120 miles between Zihua and Acapulco with a business group once in a "combi" - van type vehicle. Luckily, we had a native escort with us--it was mandatory for renting the van.
There were at least 4 roadblock stops along the way. Not "pass-throughs," but full vehicle searches. The first time, I was very scared, because I thought the men were banditos who were stopping us.
Nope, they were the federales, all decked out with enormous bandoleros and bullets to last a lifetime, plus grenades on their belts. As I understood it later, had we had any drugs, they would've kept them for themselves! (Happily, that wasn't an issue.)
I'd like to say "Boycott Mexico" but, that would probably make to situation more desperate for the general population. My cousin lives with her Mexican-born husband in Piedras Negras across from Eagle Pass TX. She says she feels safer there than she does in Austin. Although there's little violence going on in that particular area, it's only a matter of time.
Bye now...
Only two frags, at a guarded home?
This was a warning, not a serious attempt.
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