Tijuana is much safer than Chicago. San Diego Red News
"According to some new statics for the year 2012, the city of Chicago is the city with the highest rate of homicides in the United States, 506 deaths to be exact. Comparing this data to what the authorities in Tijuana, Mexico, have revealed in their numbers. Tijuana had a total of 364 homicides for 2012. Out of 32 states that make up the entire Mexican territory, only 6 are considered to be regions with high criminal activity which are Jalisco, Nuevo Leon, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Guerrero and the state of Mexico. Now, is it really unsafe to travel to Mexico?
Comparing Tijuana and Chicago is only one example of how important is to look further into details before making your own judgements, and not just going by what everyone else thinks."
[URL]http://www.sandiegored.com/noticias/32773/Tijuana-is-much-safer-than-Chicago/[/URL]
Commentator. Other stats: Tijuana murder rate is 19.6 per 100,000; Flint, Michigan 64.9; Detroit, Michigan 54.6; New Orleans, Louisiana 53.5; Oakland, California 33.1. Murder is not random, in Tijuana if you look for drugs or are a drug dealer you get in problems.
[QUOTE=MongerHunger;2061311]Is it really that bad when it comes to finding USA Girls? Set up to get robbed and getting jumped from behind? I guess there is more things to worry about besides trying to find a clean, non drug addicted, used up, poor hygiene American girls. You guys be careful out there. That sounds like too much of a headache and a risk.[/QUOTE]
Warning: Crime is on the rise again in Tijuana
According to this article 26 people were killed in the first of July and 793 so far in 2017. This a sign that we all need to be extra careful. I have been seeing fewer Ratero's around. But they are still around. When the crime is on the rise the bandito's come out and rob people....!!
[URL]https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/jul/13/stringers-2017-turning-bloodiest-year-history/[/URL]
Can we add the the Yellow Cab drivers too?
[QUOTE=Hargow20;2061574]According to this article 26 people were killed in the first of July and 793 so far in 2017. This a sign that we all need to be extra careful. I have been seeing fewer Ratero's around. But they are still around. When the crime is on the rise the bandito's come out and rob people....!!
[URL]https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/jul/13/stringers-2017-turning-bloodiest-year-history/[/URL][/QUOTE]Been reading and hearing a lot about the Yellow Cab ban. I try not to tell them I'm taking uber just just ignore or just keep walking. I suspected this would happen sooner or later. Glad they are banned but I am also hearing that a judge is siding with them in court. Normally I walk a way bit down towards Pueblo Amigo Hotel so I can avoid them all together. Be safe everyone.
USC Dean of Medicine busted with prostitutes and drugs
[URL]http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-usc-doctor-20170717-htmlstory.html[/URL]
In USC's lecture halls, labs and executive offices, Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito was a towering figure. The dean of the Keck School of Medicine was a renowned eye surgeon whose skill in the operating room was matched by a gift for attracting money and talent to the university.
There was another side to the Harvard-educated physician.
During his tenure as dean, Puliafito kept company with a circle of criminals and drug users who said he used methamphetamine and other drugs with them, a Los Angeles Times investigation found.
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USC's dean School of Medicine busted with overdosed prostitute
This guy is an accomplished ophthalmologist, paid $1.1 M a year as the dean of USC's School of Medicine, plus whatever cash and expenses he can weasel out of various research grants that he brings into the school.
He was so loaded with money that he was paying a prostitute to hang out and party with him full time, renting apartments and luxury hotels for her, and bringing her and her drugs friends to his USC office to party and consume drugs. He was caught with drugs and this overdosed 22 YO prostitute, Sarah Warren, in his hotel room. Pasadena Fire the took the girl to hospital. Pasadena cop A. Garcia was probably bribed by the good doctor, thus conveniently skip filing a crime report. An eyewitness at the hotel called Pasadena town hall, USC president, then LA Times to make sure the incident is investigated. Don't know what grudge he / she held against the good doctor. Damn.
Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito lost his USC Dean job, got a job with a biotech company but was laid off after 6 months. It's safe to say his career as a physician, professor and researcher is ruined for good due to this ugly little drug addicted pussy. Nobody would hire him with that notoriety. USC and the US government will also be auditing his spending for any clues that he misspent grants money on prostitutes and drugs. He won't be able to look anyone in the eyes again. His life is ruined due to an below average-looking drug addict with an ugly fat face, droopy boobs and saggy stomach, whom I would not even fuck for fear of diseases.
Syracuse you's Dean of Management was also busted in a prostitution sting this year and lost his $600 K a year job. The urge for sex sure ruined a lot of otherwise good, bright, productive people in the US. Something needs change so we don't waste all these talents just because they want a few romps in bed. These guys should move closer to Tijuana to party and have serious fun with hot, girls and to have as much sex as they can stand without having their dicks fall off.
No wonder all jobs, including teaching, preaching, doctoring, in San Diego are so hotly sought after. Hehe.
[QUOTE=CaptainSolo;2062516][URL]http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-usc-doctor-20170717-htmlstory.html[/URL]
In USC's lecture halls, labs and executive offices, Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito was a towering figure. The dean of the Keck School of Medicine was a renowned eye surgeon whose skill in the operating room was matched by a gift for attracting money and talent to the university.
There was another side to the Harvard-educated physician.
During his tenure as dean, Puliafito kept company with a circle of criminals and drug users who said he used methamphetamine and other drugs with them, a Los Angeles Times investigation found.[/QUOTE]
Shootout. Narcos Take their war into Hot Beach Resorts
Riviera entrepreneur says he's had enough; turns vigilante.
"Carlos Mimenza won't say whether the 200-man team he's assembled carry guns. "I'll have to leave it to your imagination. My lawyers don't let me talk about it."
But they fly drones. They wear masks. Some are skilled hackers, hired from the Anonymous collective. They operate out of a luxury cabin in the woods, its entrance screened by a waterfall. And they claim to have the local governor, along with senior officials and cops, under surveillance 24 hours a day. Because Mimenza, a real-estate developer, says Mexico's authorities are responsible for the spread of violence and extortion, colluding with the country's drug cartels instead of protecting entrepreneurs like him.
It's not surprising that many tourists aren't aware of the (Cartel) killings going on around them. Recent murders haven't always made the front pages of the local papers left in hotel lobbies. That's no accident.
Cancun's authorities have urged local media to tone down the coverage, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The cartels, meanwhile, have different methods but a similar agenda. "They don't want to sabotage themselves, because the moment it's in the news then tourism, the goose that lays the golden egg, dries up," said Schtulmann."
[URL]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-21/showdown-in-cancun-narcos-take-their-war-into-hot-beach-resorts[/URL]
So the tourism businesses are protecting tourists in Mexico by becoming vigilantes against the corrupt politicians. Free enterprise to the rescue! Maybe the Hong Kong Club management should be put in charge of the Tijuana policia except the HK management would probably order the policia to arrest the Tijuana politicians for screwing up the tourist business!
Resorts-in-Mexico-suspected-of-drugging-tourists
This is scary. Tourists have gotten sick, some even died, in Mexico's resorts. Families reported they were demanded to pay $30,000 in cash for local medical treatments before they can be moved back to the US.
Be careful what you drink in Mexico, especially at cheap all you can eat and all you can drink resorts. Prices are too cheap, managements have to cut corners somewhere, likely serving chemicals-laced, adulterated booze.
[URL]http://www.wfaa.com/news/health/resorts-in-mexico-suspected-of-drugging-tourists/458170922[/URL]
[URL]http://www.ibtimes.com/after-womans-mysterious-death-mexico-resort-tourists-report-similar-incidents-2569086[/URL]
Wood Alcohol or Methanol?
Back during Prohibition, alcoholics would substitute wood alcohol for drinking, with the side effect of going blind then death. Even today, hard core alkies will go and buy mouthwash and chug it to satisfy their need to drink when they can't get real booze. My guess is that possibly alky bartenders or staff drank the real stuff the owner of the tourist bar bought for customers then covered up the theft by substituting wood alcohol, but they cut too much wood alcohol into the mix. A little wood alcohol added to a bottle would likely cause a severe hangover but too much. These tourist resorts need to find out if any of the staff are alkies and stealing booze to drink themselves. Because then they water the booze down or worse case, substitute wood alcohol to cover the loss of expensive booze. The only real defense a tourist has against this is drinking from unopened beer or liquor bottles so you know the liquor hasn't been "watered down" or worse.
[QUOTE=CaptainSolo;2063905]This is scary. Tourists have gotten sick, some even died, in Mexico's resorts. Families reported they were demanded to pay $30,000 in cash for local medical treatments before they can be moved back to the US.
Be careful what you drink in Mexico, especially at cheap all you can eat and all you can drink resorts. Prices are too cheap, managements have to cut corners somewhere, likely serving chemicals-laced, adulterated booze.
[URL]http://www.wfaa.com/news/health/resorts-in-mexico-suspected-of-drugging-tourists/458170922[/URL]
[URL]http://www.ibtimes.com/after-womans-mysterious-death-mexico-resort-tourists-report-similar-incidents-2569086[/URL][/QUOTE]
Liquor Tax Evasion equals Tainted Tequila
" . . . The market for counterfeit alcohol in Mexico is driven in part by steep taxes on spirits —more than 53% in excise tax alone — and, in the case of tequila, the expense of producing it, Ancira said. . .
A longtime liquor store owner in Mexico, who did not want his name published, told the Journal Sentinel he is aware of counterfeiters who use industrial grade alcohol, such as paint thinner, in place of ethanol, and they mix it with tequila-flavored powder.
The fakes are also known to have methanol, he said. Methanol is a highly toxic, volatile liquid that smells like ethanol but can be deadly when ingested.
The liquor store owner said the counterfeiters come into his store every so often and try to sell it to him for half the price of the legitimate brands.
The counterfeit alcohol comes in authentic, recycled bottles that they've bought on the black market and refilled.
Demand for bottles to use for bootleg booze is so prevalent, the Mexican government encourages bars, restaurants and resorts to break their empty bottles so they can't be used illegally.
Many of the tourists who described blackouts said they had been drinking tequila. . . The mood was cheerful. Gordon and her boyfriend, both in their early 20's, chatted with a couple sitting on the stools nearby, when the bartender brought them two shots of tequila.
Neither can recall what happened next. They learned later from Gordon's parents, who were sitting poolside, that they had been escorted back to their room by security. They had both been throwing up. They both blacked out.
"We both thought it was strange" said Gordon. "Neither of us reacts like that to alcohol. . We felt way too sick for what we had to drink."
Must have been potent tequila, they figured. . . ".
[URL]http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/2017/07/28/amid-more-blackout-reports-mexico-says-take-action-tainted-alcohol-resorts/519101001/[/URL]
Apparently the popular drink to spike with wood alcohol is Tequila. If you are a Tequila drinker, only drink from unopened bottles unless you don't mind "throwing up. . . And blacking out" or worse like going blind. . . From wood alcohol.
