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Nueces River Rat

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  1. This guy forgot to blame the Longhorn Network.
  2. I fail to see how KU gets the one seed after this. We would’ve beaten twice within two weeks by big margins too if we maintain what we got right now.
  3. Do we know how to use timeouts when we get stuck in the paint? Come on this is how we lose our shit
  4. One thing I will not miss is KU and their fans. But I guess Kentucky is an even swap?
  5. This is to the cartel and their mouthpiece at the AP who wrote this....
  6. Oh for sure. That mini van or SUV was a newer model however. You also can't rule out some people do take rentals into Mexico which I bet this was one since it had North Carolina plates and they were South Carolina residents. Whomever was on that rental contract if it was rental might be on the hook for the cost of that vehicle because most insurance stops at the US/Mexico border and it says on the contract you can't take it into Mexico. That's if he or she is one of the two that made it out alive.
  7. Most of us who were young back in those days were all the same. I always tried and for the most part kept my alcohol consumption in check when I went because I had it burned in my mind from the many first hand stories from older friends and family members getting in trouble with the law in the other side. Back then it was dealing with corrupt Federales and local police deciding to pick on you for public intoxication or starting a fight with a local. They figured if you tried to pay them off with something big at the start, you were like an ATM machine and they would try to bleed you dry while you sat in a jail cell until they decided you had no more cash and let you go home. Rule number one in Mexico when they arrest you for something like that, do not throw them money right away.
  8. Could've been mistaken identity. But how many newer model mini vans do you see in any city in Mexico much less Matamoros with North Carolina plates.? It would be easier to suspect mistaken identity it had Texas plates.
  9. The cartels are soulless bastards, but not stupid. The last thing the cartels want to do is get a bunch of innocent American caught in the crossfire so close to the USA. Imagine the heck that would come down if a group of Winter Texans on a Saturday strolling on the main street of Nuevo Progresso got caught in a crossfire and 10 or 20 of them were killed. The cartels know that would almost require the full force of the American government to come down on Mexico and I think even the most hands off American President would have to do something and thus the most hands off Mexican government would be forced to the do the same. That's why when I first heard of this I was like this doesn't add up. They just don't do these things that close to a port of entry in the border towns.
  10. Correct. The drug trade and the cartels have been in Mexico for a long time. I never recall being concerned about things in the border towns until the Kilroy killing in 1989. But most of us on the border kind of wrote if off too as a unaware Gringo college student thinking he was invincible not being aware of his surroundings and just a case of being at the wrong place and the wrong time. They didn't become the animal they are today with their fingers in things you wouldn't associated with the drug trade like shell companies to launder their money and of course the human trafficking component until the Columbia cartels suffered defeats and their leadership went down starting with Pablo Escobar. That did take American money and man power and covert stuff we will probably never know about until files are opened 50 years from now or so. The Mexican government needs to do the same where they put a face in the public they hate the Gringos and their Army of the North to satisfy their national pride, but then take the bitter medicine that if they want a country that is somewhat safe compared to the last three decades or so, they can't do it alone. Columbia still has a drug trade and network, but it's not the same as it was and that's where Mexico needs to go. I'm not sure the cartels are all that concerned about legalization either way now as they shifted their business model as noted above. Sure they still want to control the cocaine, heroin, etc. stuff. But they've shifted hard in the Fentanyl and no telling what else is being cooked up in labs down there or in China which will become the next lethal powder.
  11. I kind of figured their might be more to this than just a tummy tuck. The border cities are not known a cosmetic surgery destinations save for ortho type of work at the dozens of Dentist offices that are located close the ports of entry from California to Brownsville.
  12. Laredo is not part of the RGV.... It's Laredo.
  13. I spent my first two decades of my life there and still have family and friends down there. So yea. I guess I know someone from the Valley.
  14. It's not cartel like for sure with bodies hanging from the 281/US 83 interchange in Pharr. But there is violence (IE murders, home invasions) going on that is drug related, just not on the scale as it does across the river. And you can bet your bottom dollar some of the home invasion and other stuff goes unreported.
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