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| Armed standoff at Mexican Border: Mexican Army rescues Pot? |
| 2005-11-21 |
| Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin A marijuana-laden dump truck got stuck in the Rio Grande on Thursday evening in Hudspeth County, leading to a standoff between U.S. law enforcement and what appeared to be the Mexican military, sheriff officials said. "It's a very serious incident," Hudspeth County Chief Deputy Mike Doyal said. "We are very fortunate (Thursday) night no one got hurt," Doyal said. "Everyone had the presence of mind not to cause an international incident, or start shooting." The incident began when Border Patrol agents tried to stop the dump truck on Interstate 10, sheriff's officials said. The truck fled to Mexico in the Neely's Crossing area. The truck got stuck in the riverbed, and the driver took off running. Agents "started to retrieve the bundles (of marijuana) when the armed subjects appeared," said Agent Ramiro Cordero, a Border Patrol spokesman. The Border Patrol called Hudspeth County sheriff's deputies and Texas state troopers for backup, both agencies confirmed. Doyal said the truck driver returned with the armed men, including men who arrived in official-looking vehicles with overhead lights and what appeared to be Mexican soldiers in uniform and with military-style rifles. The Mexican army is used in The standoff ended when the "soldiers" used a bulldozer to pull the dump truck into Mexico, sheriff's officials said. Doyal said the bulldozer is kept in the area and is suspected of being used to create makeshift paths across the river. Time to equip the Border Parol with RPG's. That would have taken care of both the Dump truck and bulldozer. If the mexico objects then ask Fox what Mexico was doing sending a dumptruck of pot into the united states. |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #7 "Everyone had the presence of mind not to cause an international incident, or start shooting." Only a postponement of the inevitable. Lets get our Army down there and get it on! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-11-21 21:50 |
| #6 I sincerely hope that someone took lots of pictures for later identification of these folks, army or no. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-11-21 21:42 |
| #5 Should have used a zippo and burned the evidence. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2005-11-21 18:31 |
| #4 ROFL, FDP - I was choking on my KFC, no - not choking that chicken - before I finished the first sentence. Reminded me of Administratium, LOL. This will be a large data point added to the debate and demands that the government get serious. You can bet the Texas Delegation will be making noises on the hill - they will be horsewhipped by the voters if they don't. I'm happy that none of our people were hurt. I'm disgusted that all of theirs survived and got the dope. |
| Posted by: Sholutle Chump7007 2005-11-21 14:30 |
| #3 I like Ed's approach. |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2005-11-21 14:22 |
| #2 A congressional blue-ribbon roundtable committee is in order here to determine a need for a special inquest hearing to determine a need for closed-door hearings to determine if anyone should ask anyone anything not offensive to those engaged in cross-border relations and economic/trade projects. The committee is in order to also ensure that Fox is not embarrassed or put on the spot as to give the PRI an advantage come next election. In the eyes of the corrupt legal system, if it quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck and swims like a duck... it doesn't mean it is a duck. It could be a shetland pony. The military is not going to react to any incursion on the border other than occupy real estate for terrain denial... or do a show-of-force by flying around aggressively. The Border Patrol management, notice I did not say leadership, barely backs up their own officers when attacked by the Mexican or domestic press. Why would anyone think they would risk paperwork requesting assistance from the military? If anything, it would get all jacked-up and the military-appearing Mexicans would have returned south before you could say Ole! Chances are that the Border Patrol guys were out-gunned and out-manned and definitely lacking a menacing (probably stolen) bulldozer of their own. I think the U.S. law enforcement folks on the ground probably did the right thing. Maybe they figured that it was better to bring their ass home alive rather than be judged a dead jackass by all the warped media and liberal facists strangling the country. I'd grab what pot I confiscated, turn it in, fill out the inhuman amount of paperwork that goes with it, answer the pointless accusatory questions by desk-jockey supervisors and map out one more what-if scenario for the future. Dead folks cannot do that... nor change tactics. They did the right thing on the ground. Back at Border Patrol Headquarters is where even scarier things happen, and even the greater threat. |
| Posted by: Fun Dung Poo 2005-11-21 14:20 |
| #1 So why didn't the Border Patrol ask to call in F-16s or armed helicopters from Fort Bliss? If they don't have the authority, then what good are the Border Patrol if they can't intervene during an armed incursion into the United States by a foreign military. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-11-21 12:17 |