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[GuyW]

Mexico has nothing that I want....

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[randy]

It's a no place I need to go.

[rjf]

I thought guns were illegal in Mexico. How could this happen?

[MikeH1]

every year riders get ambushed on the course. Why would you want to race in a cesspool anyway?

[MikeH1]

I thought guns were illegal in Mexico. How could this happen?

There is no such thing as "illegal in Mexico", like most 3rd world countries they have no laws.

[Blademan21]

Baja 1000

My brother is going to be on a pit crew for that race. I bet he hasn't heard about this . He will now.

[dribbler]

There is no such thing as "illegal in Mexico", like most 3rd world countries they have no laws.

then why are there mexican police?

[Decoligny]

then why are there mexican police?

There has to be somebody to escort the drug dealers around.

[dwtt]

then why are there mexican police?

They extort money from the tourists, especially the UCSD college kids who go to Tijuana to party at the bars. Actually fighting crime is an afterthought for the Mexican police.

[damon1272]

Just found out about the shooting. Stevie is a great guy. Just saw him last month at a family wedding. Talked to a family member tonight and Steve is going back in for surgery tonight. He is not out of the woods yet. Mexican doctors did a piss poor job of stitching him up, tons of internal bleeding. He was shot with a .22 that bounced around and did a bunch of internal damage.
Cameron Steele really helped get him out of s-hole called Mexico. There is a cover up going on from the Mexican police, the Mexican doctors, and Score.
This was NOT a hunting accident. Steve was conscious until he got back in the States. Steve is a good man with a young family and we are pulling for him.

[Gofasterdammit]

Robbing, pirating, and boobytraps are nothing new to Baja 1000 but this is the first time I've heard of someone intentionally getting shot. The gunman was in camo, definatley pre-meditated. A number of people die each year during the race, all spectators that get too close. These guys will actually try to touch buggys, truggys, trophy trucks while they are doing 80 mph plus, like it's some kind of game. I just checked RaceDezert and there's nothing about this incident but that dosen't suprise me. The last thing SCORE needs is bad press and teams pulling out of the race because SCORE can't gurantee the race team's saftey. The police down there are sketchy at best, from TJ down to Cabo. I havent been south of TJ for a few years but all my run-ins from the policia in TJ have resulted in me loosing my money to get drunk friends out of the back of a cop car. My friend went down to pre-run/watch the 1000 last year and he took my advice. Out of the four credit cards he had, he reported 3 stolen before the trip. He took the 3 invalid cards with him. He got into two binds to the point where they were going to take his Tacoma and leave him with a backpack in the destert and in Ensenada. He gave the police the cancelled cards, said they had $10k limits, and they let him go.

[MikeH1]

then why are there mexican police?

to extort money from "Turistas", and shoot at people illegally crossing Mexico's southern border, no other purpose.

[VeryCoolCat]

every year riders get ambushed on the course. Why would you want to race in a cesspool anyway?

More risk? I think there should be more dangerous racing sports Kinda like a destruction derby race where speeds top 80mph

The carnage, could you imaging the money that sport would draw?

[cactus]

My wife, 2 kids (ages 2 and 4 at the time ) and I went to the Baja 1000 2 years ago. I had always wanted to go growing up in Blythe we loved off road racing. I have to say we had no problems and the kids loved it! Although we got lost at one point and I have never seen ghettos like the ones I saw in Encinada. We had a great time its to bad to hear about the shooting. As for cops in Mexico from personal experience at gun point they can be fairly corrupt!