Posted on 04/02/2010 3:26:33 AM PDT by Michael van der Galien
It’s every parent’s worst spring break nightmare come true: Fun in the sun somehow turned into a south-of-the-border bloodbath for 21-year-old Zeke Rucker. The vacationing Rutgers University graduate was discovered alone outside his resort hotel in the wee hours of the morning of March 16, bleeding and unconscious by a swimming pool. His heartbroken and horrified family has questions. American and Mexican officials don’t have any answers — or any immediate interest in finding out what happened to Zeke.
Did he fall? Was he beaten? Did hotel staff witness anything? A resort security guard found Rucker at around 4 a.m. near some lounge chairs with his head “bashed in.” According to family members, the hotel has interior surveillance video showing Rucker “staggering” from his room. But there is no exterior video to shed light on what happened once he exited the hotel or when and how exactly he sustained his grave head injuries. His wallet and ID were left intact inside his hotel room.
Zucker’s New Jersey-based parents strongly suspect foul play and random violence. But the American consulate told the family there will be no investigation, and Zeke’s parents say the Mexican police didn’t even bother to meet with them.
Mexican consulates on American soil are famous for vigorously intervening on behalf of their illegal alien citizens — lobbying to get them driver’s licenses, bank accounts and health care, for example, and rushing to defend illegal alien border-crossers arrested in reckless- and drunk-driving cases.
Where are our U.S. lawmakers to put pressure on our U.S. State Department to get to the bottom of the Ruckers’ Cancun horror?
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Is the name Rucker, or Zucker?
Quit. Going. To. Mexico.
Precisely.
This kid was asking for trouble by just going there, and his parents (who probably paid for the excursion) are now outraged?
We are going to Cancun next week....UGH!
This was real...place Mexico’s city banking district 12 noon April 98...robber exits bank running followed by 2 guards...they open fire with automatic rifles on a crowded street killing 2, wounding several missed the perp
I don’t understand why anyone would want to voluntarily go to Mexico.
I look at it as going to Pakistan or Afghanistan or Haiti. Maybe with armed guards, but not for a fun vacation.
Bleach your toothbrush before each use. (You may need to research urban legends to get the joke)
YUK! I remember that legend!
It’s MEXICO. What do people expect?!
Exactly.
And parents: dig up the old Spring Break specials that used to air on MTV. Why in the world would anyone think these activities are not dangerous and don’t create a stupid dangerous environment for young people?
I have never understood why the parents don’t understand the risks. Same with Natalie Holloway. When your child leaves the country specifically to do dumb-adolescent-crap in a Third World culture and legal system, with loads of alochol (probably drugs as well) and dangerous sex with strangers actually pushed as part of the “spring break experience,” Good Lord, you don’t have a clue this attracts violence and violent thugs just at the moment your kid is probably at his dumbest?
Parents have to get a clue that this is not their grandfather’s Spring Break anymore. Same with prom.
It also mentioned that the kid got a serious infection after he had surgery in Mexico. Can you even imagine getting brain surgery in Mexico?
Never, ever, under any persuasion, go to Mexico.. Never go there..
Amen. Don't these people read? The kleptocrasy that is mexico is swirling down the drain.
There are a lot of great places to go in the US. Of course something like this can happen anywhere
Too many stupid parents in this country.
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Where are our U.S. lawmakers to put pressure on our U.S. State Department to
get to the bottom of the Ruckers’ Cancun horror?
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Expecting the US State Department to help American citizens abroad?
Good luck. There are too many “citizens of the world” in The State Department.
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