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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 03:55 PM
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That's it.. I'm boycotting Mexico.
http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1535302,00.html?cid=recirc-top5-4-1535302

I guess you've heard by now they have arrested Duane 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' Chapman.

Alright, let me get this straight:

Mexico, which hasn't done squat to curb the violence in New Loredo, and has had something like 200 unsolved murders in that one area alone (not to mention the dozens of disappearances), has a problem with a bounty hunter going after a rapist?

Can anybody explain this to me?


Oh, oh...this has got to be my favorite line in the article mentioned above: The second time they knocked, the door slipped opened on its own.

Yeah, right.


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alarimer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 04:04 PM
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1. Mexico should be glad to get rid of Luster
who was a monster, by all accounts. The bounty hunter probably didn't pay off the right cop.
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 04:08 PM
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3. Speaking of pay offs:
(Yesterday the Chapman family suggested that some horse trading was under way, pointing out that Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix, part of a Mexican drug cartel, was handed over to United States authorities.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/arts/television/18dog.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 04:06 PM
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2. Just read in the below article that A&E plans to run a special
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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-19-06 04:22 PM
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4. OK. Last kick...just to give the link to the on-line petition:
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