Sheriff: Man Feared Dead After Pirates Open Fire in TX Boundry Waters

ap via The Blaze ^ | October 1, 2010 | Jonathon M. Seidl

[prairiebreeze]

“I would think that, right now, the prudent boater would want to stay on the Texas side,” ....

Uh, yeah....

[prairiebreeze]

Ping, Swinney.

[Krankor]

Isn’t the wife usually the number one suspect when her husband mysteriously...um...disappears?

[nuconvert]

What in the heck was this couple doing there?

[hinckley buzzard]

"Family values don't stop at the water's edge."

"Vigilantes!"

"See you at the bill signing."

Helluva job there, Dubya.

[The KG9 Kid]

Put a small US Navy gunboat in that lake and see how the pirates like them apples.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I know this pisses off a lot of Americans but remember, if something like this happens to you and you shoot back, you will be guilty of 1) a "hate crime". 2) "racial profiling" and 3) will be labeled as a "racist bigot" by the Democrat National Committee. (Donkeys)

sarc/off

[South40]

[Army Air Corps]

Bring back the PBR Mk.II.

[doc1019]

Could ask Senator Kerry to captain it, he has experience ... after all he served on one in VN. /s

[peeps36]

It says they were riding jet skis but I think the lake is a popular place to fish. I read about a lake down there that is loaded with huge bass. It's a shame that our government is letting these lowlifes ruin some of the nicest hunting and fishing areas in the country.

[Ramonne]

While I don’t want a war with Mexico (I live to close to the border)...these people need to be taken care of. I don’t really think they are Mexicans but Moslems, who have just about taken over that country. This is very scary.

[gusopol3]

Don’t forget “Now you’re going to pay.” By far the most meaningful of all.

[WOBBLY BOB]

"PBR me, ASAP"

[nuconvert]

If “Texas officials (are) on alert”, aren’t they warning people at the lake?

Apparently this couple doesn’t read the newspapers either.

[RepublicanMeansAmerican]

Maybe we should move the Knob Creek machine gun shoot down there.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks prairiebreeze.

An American tourist was shot in the back of the head in Mexican waters on Thursday after being ambushed by armed boaters

[davetex]

“I don’t really think they are Mexicans but Moslems, who have just about taken over that country. This is very scary.”

There are some similarities, can you provide more evidence?

Just wondering , not second guessing you.

[353FMG]

Yeah, I think the US should appologize for invading sovereign Mexico.

[rickb308]

The mexican bandits are drug smugglers from the Zetas Cartel.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/7227734.html

Some campers along Falcon Lake had taken to arming themselves following the state’s first warning in May. In one incident that month, state officials said five armed men boarded a boat on the U.S. side of the boundary.

The pirates either use powerful AK-47s or AR-15s to threaten their victims, Texas public safety officials said. The agency believes the pirates use local Mexican fishermen to operate the boats to get close to American fishermen.

Falcon Lake is a dammed section of the Rio Grande that straddles the border. The border is marked by 14 partially submerged concrete towers that mark the Rio Grande’s path before the lake was created in 1954.

According to Gonzalez, Tiffany Hartley told police the couple rode their Jet Skis for sightseeing and to take pictures of a famous church in Old Guerrero. They were riding back when they saw the armed gunmen on the boats,
and immediately began racing back to U.S. waters.