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MLB players Luis Valbuena, Jose Castillo killed in stickup gone wrong
NY Post ^ | 12/7/2018 | Cedar Attanasio and Ruth Brown

Posted on 12/07/2018 6:39:33 PM PST by RightGeek

The professional baseball players who were killed in a car crash in Venezuela on Thursday actually rolled their car in a highway robbery gone wrong, according to officials and new reports.

Former major league players Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo died when the car overturned while trying to avoid a rock placed in their path by roadside bandits, while two other teammates, Carlos Rivero and Raúl Álvarez, survived with injuries, El Nuevo Herald reports.

The thieves then stripped the players of their belongings, according to the paper.

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Placing rocks in the road to force motorists to stop is a common trick used by bandits in Venezuela, according to El Nuevo Herald.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: venezuela
Where's Occasional Cortex to explain why this is fine?


1 posted on 12/07/2018 6:39:33 PM PST by RightGeek
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To: RightGeek

Socialism is awesome.


2 posted on 12/07/2018 6:41:10 PM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: RightGeek
A horse is a horse, of course, of course...

...She'll give you the answer that you'll endorse,...

3 posted on 12/07/2018 6:43:04 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: RightGeek

Anyone with more than $10 in their pocket is going to be a target in Chavez-land


4 posted on 12/07/2018 6:45:30 PM PST by PGR88
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To: RightGeek

Venezuela been belly belly bad to me.


5 posted on 12/07/2018 6:49:36 PM PST by Repeal The 17th
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To: RightGeek

This is a surprise in a country where hungry people have been eating zoo animals...giraffes,etc?


6 posted on 12/07/2018 6:55:09 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: PGR88

That’s like a billion dollars in the local currency.


7 posted on 12/07/2018 6:55:15 PM PST by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: RightGeek

Wiiilllburr...give me some hay.


8 posted on 12/07/2018 6:56:37 PM PST by DAC21
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To: RightGeek

Wow! If that report is true, what a disgusting incident.


9 posted on 12/07/2018 7:02:57 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: RightGeek

Poster child for ethics charges


10 posted on 12/07/2018 7:06:52 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: RightGeek

What I don’t get is the people who are in anyway shocked or surprised by this. It’s a third-world shithole country. That’s what they do.


11 posted on 12/07/2018 7:24:15 PM PST by Hatteras
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To: RightGeek

#1. Ms. Cortex, re the photo, is trying to win the “Mr. Ed Look-Alike Contest” prize of a free trip, one-way, to Tijuana, Mexico. Something about it being too cold in NYC and DC.

When God gave out brains, she was watching reruns of old
8 hour long Fidel Castro speeches.

That would explain a lot.


12 posted on 12/07/2018 7:45:04 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: RightGeek

Why would anyone visit Venezuela, even if you had family.


13 posted on 12/07/2018 8:12:31 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

You’ve gotta admit, she has a nice set of biters!


14 posted on 12/07/2018 9:04:06 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Socialism been belly belly bad to Chico.


15 posted on 12/08/2018 3:14:03 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Schumer delenda est.)
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To: RightGeek

Face like a horse. In fact, I’ve seen better looking horses.


16 posted on 12/08/2018 3:20:02 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Trudeau never saw a gay pride parade he didn't want to join.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

more like a horses ass


17 posted on 12/08/2018 5:29:02 AM PST by Dont tread and Live (waso)
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