Policia shakedown at La Linea Sentri
The old foot bridge is closed. The new foot bridge brings you to the dark spot at la linea sentri.
Got dropped off by a $3 taxi libre at La Linea Sentri. There were 2 undercover policia shouting to someone on the street. They wore dark blue sweat shirts with the sheriff stars on their chests. I thought they were private seguridad until I saw the big Colt 45's they carried on their right legs.
In the dark spot underneath the foot bridge, near the bright TV bill board, there were 4 uniformed policia shaking down a gringo. They were harassing this guy in very loud voices, in fact they were all shouting at the gringo, asking whether he knew there were video cameras installed somewhere in the direction of the palm trees.
I was with a fellow monger. We gave them a wide berth and could not risk lingering to find out what happened to the solo gringo.
Along the cat walk to the US border, there was a big, dark, uniformed policia carrying a carbine M1 with sawed off buttock. He was just sitting down bull shitting with a bunch of guys. If you ever got robbed along the way, don't count on him to move his fat ass to help.
Be very careful in this area.
[QUOTE=Chuponalgas]Every night this week, there have been two crooked cops doing the shakedown in the shadowy area at the Sentri drop-off point. They are stopping solo Gringos and doing a complete search, shakedown if they find a Viagra or pocketknife, etc. When you cross over the bridge from McDonalds, you end up at a well-lit point closer to the border, generally without trouble.[/QUOTE]
Just saw this on Yahoo....
Tourist magnet Tijuana cleans up brothels
Thu Aug 18,11:54 AM ET
The Mexican border city of Tijuana, a weekend playground for U.S. visitors, plans to give prostitutes electronic health cards and regulate brothels in an effort to clean up its gritty image.
Under a bylaw passed last month, the city is forcing about 50 clandestine brothels to meet public safety and hygiene standards, like putting clean sheets on beds, or face closure.
"We have a lot of prostitution but few controls," Martha Montejano, head of the council's health and human development commission, said on Wednesday. "This aims to combat sexually transmitted diseases and bring order to the massage parlors."
Prostitution is illegal in Mexico but brothels are often left alone by law enforcement agents.
Under the regulation, some 7,000 male and female sex workers in Tijuana, a city of 1.2 million people, will carry health cards with a computer chip to show they have passed monthly health checks.
The Tijuana bylaw is due to come into force in the coming days, perhaps as early as Friday, and a team of 30 inspectors already has begun visits to brothels, which are often thinly disguised as massage parlors.
The bylaw is the first serious attempt to regulate the sex trade in the city, which has served as a playground of bars, brothels and racetracks for visitors from California since the U.S. prohibition era in the 1920s.
Brothel operators back the measure, which they say allows them to operate in the open for the first time, while providing safeguards for both sex workers and clients.
"It makes it safer for everyone involved," a brothel manager called Jorge told Reuters at a massage parlor close to Avenida Revolucion, a strip of gaudy tourist bars. "The girls and the clients are better off and it means the authorities can't close us down if we comply."
The Tijuana bylaw, similar to regulations in cities like Monterrey and the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, has been criticized by some opposition councilors.
"It's like throwing up your hands and saying that we've been beaten by the problem of prostitution," said opposition councilor Luis Ledezma of the conservative National Action Party. "We think it definitely goes too far."
No Policia at La Linea Sentri
Got dropped off by a $3 Taxi Libre at 1AM at the dark spot at La Linea Sentri last night.
It was very dark. There were no policia anywhere. Perhaps they were all home screwing their chief's wife and daughters?
There was no line at the Border Security checkpoint. The only woman agent there was pretty good looking. She was hanging around chit chatting with the latino agent like they just had a long night of sex. She eyed me carefully with her lusty eyes like she needed a good fuck in the interrogation room.
One night I must disguise myself as a wet back for a long and hot interrogation/ S&M session with her in her dungeon, courtesy of Uncle Sam.
Policia roughing up Gringo
Came back to La linea Sentri at about 1AM Thursday.
4 Policia were roughing up an older Gringo in white pollo shirt and khaki short. They were all over the guy emptying his pockets etc. The poor guy was sweating buckets.
We walked right by, didn't even draw a look from the policia. Don't know what the guy did wrong.
Problems with TJ cabbies-driving into TJ.
I was tired of dealing with the dumb goons driving the yellow pieces of shiet. I am not short of money, but I dont like crooks who extort money from my fellow mongers.
Besides, the main concern is possible encounter with banditos and corrupt policia between the drop off point to the US border. One would never know when one is held up by a bandito or a cabbie with a knife, or TJ policia with their badges, and got one's wallet cleaned out.
I've seen enough policia jumping from their squad cars with drawn guns, chasing banditos down dark alleys half a block from Adelita. And the walk across the border zone is scary, dusty and tiresome.
I decided to drive into TJ in my own car. It was a breeze. It took only 10 minutes from the border to Adelita. I feel a lot more secured and relaxed driving my own car than walking at night on Mexican soil. Parking at CC was packed, costing $1.40 para hora. The return to the US border after midnight had few cars waiting, only a dozen cars ahead of me, costing 10 to 30 minutes wait. Overall there is time and energy saving over taking cabs.
Avoid waiting on the leftmost lane as US Custom could close it down without warning, leaving you stuck with your dicks hanging. Besides, when it's open, there are always dozens of dumb drivers trying to cut into the line, creating hassles. The middle and right lanes always move faster.
Driving into TJ is a far more elegant, convenient and secured solution than dealing with the dumb trash driving the yellow turds. Fuuuuuuuuck the yellow cabbie aaaaaaaaaassholes in TJ. They are the shame of the Mexicanos.