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Posted on 1/18/16 at 7:17 pm to diat150
I've actually been to Edinburgh for work. Can't really remember much about it. I'm going to Laredo tomorrow but not crossing into the motherland
Posted on 1/18/16 at 7:46 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Tourist areas until midnight are safe enough if you're relatively sober. Go wandering looking for drugs or "a good time" and you could find trouble.
Posted on 1/18/16 at 7:53 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
You will be fine. Guns are banned in Mexico.
Posted on 1/18/16 at 7:55 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
I'm in court often in McAllen Brownsville Edinburgh and rio grande city. You are out of your damn mind if you cross. Seriously don't do it
Posted on 1/18/16 at 8:02 pm to Oates Mustache
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Down in the West Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.
Example A for not putting it on a pedestal. Felina was a batshit crazy dancer
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Night-time would find me in Rosa's cantina;
Music would play and Felina would whirl.
and not only did he kill another man over her but he was so beta he came back to get shot by his buddies on the offchance he'd get to see her again.
And she wasn't even all that interested in him!
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My love was deep for this Mexican maiden;
I was in love but in vain, I could tell.
Crazy m'fer.
Posted on 1/18/16 at 10:47 pm to Michael J Cocks
quote:Uh... I think the people of Syria would like a word with you.
There's no place scarier in the world right now.
Posted on 1/18/16 at 11:20 pm to Geaux Piggins Geaux
Uh.... The Cartels shite on anything and everything ISIL related.
Posted on 1/18/16 at 11:25 pm to foshizzle
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foshizzle
Posted on 1/18/16 at 11:46 pm to Sentrius
I was in El Paso last fall and jogged 45 min to the border crossing. Even down there near the border shite got sketchy and i was being called racist names during my run...
Why would i want to cross over when i was hated on enough just jogging to the edge?
Don't do it OP.
Why would i want to cross over when i was hated on enough just jogging to the edge?
Don't do it OP.
Posted on 1/18/16 at 11:53 pm to zacata88
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Did you expect anything other than comically dire reactions from a board that is largely scared of anything not white?
In December 2014 I took a bus from Laredo to Monterrey (and back), which included a transfer in the station in Nuevo Laredo. Spent four days in the Monterrey area. No signs of violence or any kind of threat at all. That was nearer to the height of the cartel violence, too
This. It's not like as soon as you cross the border you will be sold into slavery, then get your head chopped off. There have been a few incidents of Americans getting kidnapped, and thousands upon thousands cross into Mexico every day.
That being said, you probably won't have a very good time if you are paranoid the whole time you are there (understandably so)
Posted on 1/18/16 at 11:55 pm to GeorgeTheGreek
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I was in El Paso last fall and jogged 45 min to the border crossing. Even down there near the border shite got sketchy and i was being called racist names during my run...
Why would i want to cross over when i was hated on enough just jogging to the edge?
Don't do it OP.
Well, you were doing one of the whitest things ever by jogging
Posted on 1/19/16 at 1:05 am to LSUTigersVCURams
I used to go to Nogales every once in a while when I lived in AZ. This was '00-'04 time frame and it was pretty sketchy. I was robbed twice, once by uniformed cops in a patrol car. I'd stay away from there these days. Can't speak for the other border towns.
Posted on 1/19/16 at 1:11 am to mauser
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I just google Reynosa
When I was in college, we went on a spring break missions trip to Reynosa which is right across the border from McAllen. Was not very dangerous back then, but we had a chartered bus that would take us into Reynose every morning and GTFO of Reynosa in the evening.
1. Yes, you'll need a passport.
2. Even though Reynosa is right across the border from McAllen, there is an immediate 3rd-country difference as soon as you leave the US...
This post was edited on 1/19/16 at 1:13 am
Posted on 1/19/16 at 1:13 am to Corch Urban Myers
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Used to be you could go back and forth with just a valid driver's license. Now you have to have a passport.
Before 9/11 you just had to say "American citizen" to cross back in from Nogales. I used to wonder why illegals were trekking through the desert to cross when they just needed to learn those two words and wear decent clothes.
Posted on 1/19/16 at 3:39 am to northshorebamaman
It is hard to tell if 90% of the posters itt are stupid, racist, or just trolling.
As several intelligent posters have stated you can cross into any border town during daylight hours for a meal and some beers and you will be fine.
(I am assuming the OP has brown skin, if you are white disregard what I said, you will be raped and beheaded before you get offered your first pack of chiclets)
As several intelligent posters have stated you can cross into any border town during daylight hours for a meal and some beers and you will be fine.
(I am assuming the OP has brown skin, if you are white disregard what I said, you will be raped and beheaded before you get offered your first pack of chiclets)
Posted on 1/19/16 at 5:14 am to LSUTigersVCURams
I can't decide which is worse, a wedding in Edinburg or crossing the border. You have to be a complete idiot to cross the border in that area for the sake of "just to do it." The warnings don't "sound like" anything, they are there for a reason. Seriously, don't be an idiot. I doubt you would be a victim from just a random day trip but there is nothing there worth risking. Reynosa, matamoros, and Camargo are no joke. There is nothing for you to experience that is close to the risk
This post was edited on 1/19/16 at 5:15 am
Posted on 1/19/16 at 5:20 am to Ed Osteen
This is Reynosa, just a few miles south
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The narco blockades were set up across the city of Reynosa earlier this year following the capture of Gulf Cartel deputy El Comanche
This post was edited on 1/19/16 at 5:21 am
Posted on 1/19/16 at 5:42 am to Ed Osteen
Is this what you really want to see OP?
Posted on 1/19/16 at 6:51 am to LSUEnvy
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Used to go to Nuevo Laredo but there's no way in hell I'd go now.
Friend of mine went there with his then fiance' family in the mid 2000's. Her parents have lived in Laredo her whole life. They know where to go and where not to go, and they will not go any longer.
Nuevo Laredo, I believe, about 8-10 years ago was the place where a newly elected mayor campaigned that he would rid the town of violence and cartels. He was shot on the steps of city hall after swearing in. Nobody saw nothing..... This was not in 1906, this was about 2006-7.
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