Cancun vacationers flee beach as armed
gang dressed as SOLDIERS pull up on jet
skis and open fire in vicious cartel battle
over tourist drug trade
Daily Mail (UK) & Associated Press,
by
Rachael Bunyan
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/8/2021 11:24:33 AM
Tourists were sent scrambling for cover after gunmen arrived on jet skis at a beach in Mexico's Caribbean coast resort in Cancun and opened fire. The attackers pulled up to the beach on jet skis and began shooting in Cancun's hotel zone on Tuesday, Lucio Hernández Gutiérrez, the chief of police of the coastal state of Quintana Roo, said. Three jet skis have been found and seized, and nobody appeared to be injured in the attack, police said. A family from Utah said they ran for cover during the shooting, which they say involved the gunmen firing about '20 shots' near the beach.(Snip)Mexican marines with bulletproof vests, helmets
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 12/8/2021 11:47:32 AM (No. 1000641)
Funny thing, for years, I have watched Wheel of Fortune and of all the hundreds of lavish resort trips they have given away to contestants, I cannot recall even one for any resort in Mexico. What's Pat Sajak know that we don't?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 12/8/2021 11:51:34 AM (No. 1000647)
How stupid do you have to be to go to a country which has been under the control of ultra violent drug cartels for about 10 years?
Suicidal to cross into Mexico.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GO3 12/8/2021 11:59:13 AM (No. 1000655)
Looks like news segment in Robocop was prescient.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 12/8/2021 12:10:01 PM (No. 1000663)
Our family spent two 7 day vacations there in the 80s. You were always on edge , even then but we managed to have fun and great memories. Wouldn't consider going there for free, now.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
klezmer 12/8/2021 12:16:38 PM (No. 1000669)
I've been to many resort cities in Mexico going back 40+ years. I've also been to many border towns and enjoyed the shopping and tasty restaurants. Those days are over for me and have been for about 12 years.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
CactusStar 12/8/2021 12:17:41 PM (No. 1000672)
Nothing like a little local flavor!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rat Patrol 12/8/2021 12:26:58 PM (No. 1000682)
So no difference from Chicago...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
planetgeo 12/8/2021 12:27:58 PM (No. 1000685)
Jeez, getting to be like Chicago or NYC...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 12/8/2021 12:51:56 PM (No. 1000712)
Ref: #7 - I suspect those Mexicans are better shots than the melanated shooters in Chicago.
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For decades, as long as the Federales left the Cartels alone, they kept to a hands off policy regarding the tourist areas. But now it appears that this policy has been tossed aside. Anyone who goes to a Mexican resort town now is out of their mind. And #1 is right. That show never offered lavish trips to Mexico as a prize. I think Price is Right has stopped that as well.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
marbles 12/8/2021 1:27:13 PM (No. 1000758)
Gives new meaning to " A day at the beach ".
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/8/2021 1:40:12 PM (No. 1000767)
This is the very reason I don't go to Mexico. Why should I or anyone willingly fund Mexico's corrupt economy and drug cartels.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/8/2021 1:57:12 PM (No. 1000781)
It's ok folks they have the 3 jet ski's under arrest.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 12/8/2021 2:28:27 PM (No. 1000812)
The cartels run Mexico.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
3XALADY 12/8/2021 2:33:54 PM (No. 1000823)
Back in the 90's we used DH's business friend's villa at the Acapulco Princess for several years. I never felt like I was in danger, even after seeing the armed soldiers on the beach and in front of the businesses in downtown Acapulco. No way would I go there now.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
hershey 12/8/2021 2:36:00 PM (No. 1000826)
Jimminy, they must have been watching the 'Invasion USA' movie....
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
hershey 12/8/2021 2:38:21 PM (No. 1000829)
My son related to me about a trip there some years ago...if you were walking in town, you stayed to one or two streets..if you strayed you came across jeeps with armed soldiers...not my kind of vacation spot, oh, and he and his wife didn't return...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
harleynyc 12/8/2021 2:44:12 PM (No. 1000841)
Take out a huge life insurance policy, then travel to Mexico.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Hazymac 12/8/2021 4:34:24 PM (No. 1000928)
In the spring of 1976 college golfers from all over the USA and the Americas converged on Guadalajara for the first Bing Crosby Intercollegiate (of two, since, sadly, Bing died the following year), to be contested at the lovely San Isidro CC in a valley between some hills outside town. Most of the players had arrived on a flight from San Antonio, and waited with their coaches and their visas behind a rope line inside the airport. No one failed to notice that we nice college kids in our coats and ties were faced with what looked like fifty or more uniformed federales, all of them armed with submachine guns. They looked very serious. Have you ever seen up close images of crickets? They don't smile. Neither did the federales. All of them, crickets. I turned to the golfer behind me in line and offered him a Jackson to leap over the rope line with his hands in the air, yelling, "Ahhhhhhh!" He considered it but finally decided it wasn't too smart and we had a laugh.
I wouldn't go back to Mexico for all the tea in China. Dangerous place.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/8/2021 5:48:39 PM (No. 1000988)
I went to a gun fight and a vacation broke out!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/8/2021 8:15:22 PM (No. 1001078)
The Mexican government’s tourist agency carved the Cancun resort out of a jungle. I visited there years ago with a friend who was then a travel writer for Sunset Books. We were guests of the Mexican government. She was updating the Sunset Mexico book and the Cancun resorts were to be included. I felt then that it was a precarious place. It felt scary to me.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 12/8/2021 8:53:43 PM (No. 1001124)
Do not go to Mexico...ever. Believe me I know. Won’t matter much in a few years because most of Mexico will be here in the US drawing welfare on the dwindling number of taxpayers paying for it. FJB and all like him.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Omen55 12/8/2021 10:59:39 PM (No. 1001216)
Time for a new song.
See Cancun & die.
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You've got to have rocks in your head to vacation in Mexico.
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They could market this as Extreme Tourism and really cash in. "I went to Cancun and made it out alive!"