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Post by simpsca Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:57 pm

I set my burglar alarm when I went out today and my gardener was still working in the yard. As I left I told him "don't forget to clean the leaves off the roof". When I got home I noticed the roof alarm had been set off - DUH! I know not to set it when he is working there but was nervous and forgot. I apologized and told him I knew someone who had been robbed and murdered and another couple - one in a wheel chair robbed at gunpoint and that because I was nervous I had set the alarm. He said he read about the murder in the newspaper and he understood.

He told me "we are all frightened". He said he is afraid to walk on the carraterra. Then he told me that two Oxxo stores had been robbed on the carraterra in the past week I believe.

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Post by Carry Bean Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:55 pm

The only burglar alarm I have is my dogs and so far they get set off if my neighbor dares to go on her mirador. Very Happy

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Post by johninajijic Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:43 pm

simpsca - Two OXXO's robbed??? That's how rumors get started. Until you read it in the newspaper, it's not true. Your gardener afraid to walk the Carretera? It's safer than in the US.
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Post by David Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:01 am

If you don't see it in the paper that doesn't mean it didn't happen. It's better to read the Mexican press, there's more info there.
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Post by simpsca Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:50 am

johninajijic wrote:simpsca - Two OXXO's robbed??? That's how rumors get started. Until you read it in the newspaper, it's not true. Your gardener afraid to walk the Carretera? It's safer than in the US.

I am telling you what my Mexican gardener told me. I think they often have more information than we do. All information we receive is probably somewhat distorted and not completely accurate. But I feel the more information we have the better. Inaccuracies can be corrected. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time cannot.
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Post by bimini6 Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:40 am

Well said Simpsca. Better to be informed and aware of your surroundings. Very Happy

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Post by Demonio Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:53 am

Wonder how long it'll take a certain poster (the one with his head buried six feet under) to throw a hissy fit like he did on Mecconnect the other day when he was exposed on a similar topic?
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Post by Lehrer Fri Jan 21, 2011 2:35 pm

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Post by hound dog Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:57 pm

Edited by Dawg in the interest of civility. Replaced by later comment.


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Post by martygraw Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:19 pm

Hey Bubba, whats a sycophant?????
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Post by espíritu del lago Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:16 pm

I am glad I read John's post before it was nuked...And I just thought pixels were forever.... lol! I guess he didn't get the memo...So just for John....


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Post by simpsca Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:07 pm

Thank you Bob. It was getting difficult to read what should be just regular posts. And I was concerned that some of the new members were being scared off.
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Post by hound dog Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:03 am

I would like to make a comment on the notion, as stated by another poster on this thread that, "...Until you read it in the newspaper, its not true...." regarding crime in Mexico. I comment, not to criticise the poster who made this remark but to give another perspective from one who has lived both here and in Chiapas for some ten years and four years respectively. We learn a great deal more about criminal and other activities in both Ajijic and San Cristóbal from Mexican acquaintances attuned to the communities than we ever learn from newspapers either in Jalisco or Chiapas. Time and experience has taught us who and what to believe and we always take street scuttlebutt with a grain of salt as is appropriate. In San Cristóbal, most community news is broadcast on local radio in Spanish or in one of a number of indigenous languages and crimes in the community rarely make the local newspaper at all and never the national press. As a consequence, one would hardly imagine just how violent Chiapas is, especially in rural indigenous areas all over the state but, seemingly even more so in regions adjacent to the border with Guatemala. In both communities , we are more attuned to what we call the community "tom toms" and we hear of much crime that takes place in thiese communities that is rarely mentioned in newspapers. Please don´t believe the canard that if it ain´t in the newspaper it never happened. That is a perilous notion and could lead to undue complacency.

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Post by 57Chevy Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:46 am

I agree with hound dog. The community "tom-toms" are very important to listen to. Think about life in the U.S. In the U.S. city and suburban neighborhoods, there are many crimes that happen that are never in the paper, including violent crimes, child kidnapping attempts, robberies, & burglaries. In Mexico, it is a beautiful thing that expats and Mexicanos have a tom-tom system to communicate about what's happening.

QUESTION FOR SIMSCA: Did your gardener say why he is afraid to walk the carratera? I would be interested in more details as to why.
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Post by simpsca Sat Jan 22, 2011 11:10 am

No he did not say why he is afraid to walk on the carraterra but right after he said that he told me about the two robberies at Oxxo "On the carraterra".

But there is another reason to be afraid here in San Juan Cosala. A few weeks ago a NOB was riding his bicycle on the Carr. in this area. He stopped on the side of the road to talk to someone and a truck passed another truck on the right and hit him (standing on the side of the carr.). Augustine, owner of Viva Mexico got to him first and got help - don't know all the details, but I met the man in Augustine's restaurant yesterday. He had just had heart surgery before being hit by the truck, so amazing he survived. Wife said blood was everywhere, but no broken bones.

So I don't know why my gardener is afraid - being shot? or being hit by a truck? We did discuss pistolas.


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Post by Lehrer Sat Jan 22, 2011 12:46 pm

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Post by simpsca Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:37 pm

I will ask him next week (if I can remember:)
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