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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Border towns and resorts are easy because they want your money... drive into Mexico and see what happens. I have had my car damn near taken apart on the side of the highway with 14 year olds walking around with guns keep an eye on things....
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Wow, let me know where you are going in Mexico so I can stay away from there.
I have drove down through the baja area a few times, didn't have any problems but I have heard enough stories that I only go with people that actually know the area.
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Originally Posted by JaneB
Then you were not in the real parts of Mexico, you were in tourist destinations. Go outside of tourist destinations and they will stop you. They have the right to stop anyone at anytime and ask them for their ID. Some police officers also will stop you for a bullshit reason and demand money to let you go.
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I wasn't disagreeing with you, they do have the right to stop people. All I was saying was that I thought you were exaggerating how it is quite a bit. I have been to plenty of places far outside the resort towns, I know people that actually live there and many times I stay in the regular parts of the city where everyone lives. Yes they do stop people usually these are checkpoints but most of the time when they stop people they are looking for illegals that are sneaking into Mexico not Americans or Mexicans and if they see a couple Americans in the car usually don't even bother checking you. This is what people that actually live there have told me and what I have seen. The last time I was there about a month ago we went through a checkpoint setup in the middle of the road, they just took a quick look at us and signaled us to keep driving, car was full of people, some Mexican, some American.
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Originally Posted by kristin
Consider yourself lucky then?!?
If you are white and American, a Mexican cop will pull you over for anything and pretty much just take all the money you have - and if you don't give it to him, say hello to Mexican jail.
The Mexican cops get paid dick, this is how they make their real money.
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Yeah there are dirty cops, I have had that happen once before about 8 years ago, I gave the guy 20 bucks and we were on our way. I wasn't happy about it but it wasn't really a big deal either. As far as actually being thrown in jail for no reason, thats pretty ridiculous, unless you are in some little town in the middle of no where I would seriously doubt any cop trying to pull that. They do have a legal system in Mexico and you would be out pretty quickly and the cop would most likely lose his job. That being said if you get plastered and run around like an idiot bad things have a way of happening. But anyway to say all Mexican cops are dirty is pretty huge generalization.