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Originally Posted by Socks
When I was taking a bus to Mexico City from Toronto (yes, I did it, 3.5 days) the guy at the Detroit border read EVERY PAGE of my notebook. He spent a good 10 minutes flipping through it. He asked me questions like "why did you write this" "who is this person" "why did you write their phone number" "what if I called this number right now" "what's all this porn stuff" etc etc etc.
Then he proceeded to tell me I didn't have enough money. He asked how much money I had in my bank account. He asked me what the limit is on my visa. How much ROOM I HAD LEFT on my visa.. He said "I can't trust that this isn't maxed out"....
He then told me I would never make it to Mexico, I would surely not get through the Mexican border, and that I would be "roughed up" when I got into Mexico.
I did my best to just keep quiet and let him be an idiot, I just wanted to get past.
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You're lucky you didnt become a
kidnap express victim... I'm not kidding if he asked you questions like that...
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Express kidnapping (Spanish: secuestro express), is a method of abduction used in some countries, mainly from Latin America[1], where a small ransom, that a company or family can easily pay, is requested. It is most common in Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil.[2] It was frequent in Argentina following its political and economic crisis in 2001.[3]. ATM abductions, where the victim is forced to withdraw money from his or her account, are common in many urban areas of Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, and Brazil.[2] Express kidnappings have been known of in the US since at least July 30, 1986 when US Representative Mario Biaggi proposed having all ATM networks reprogrammed to recognize than an alternate, emergency PIN had been used to withdraw the cash. (US Congressional Record, July 30, 1986, pp 18232)