Riding 'Two-up' in Mexico

[billster]

Oct 21, 10:32 PM EDT

Corpse Involved in Mexico Motorcycle Crash

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Police discovered on Friday that a passenger on a motorcycle involved in an accident in the rough Mexican border city of Tijuana was in fact a corpse which the driver had been carrying through the city strapped to his back.

The motorcycle driver lost control and skidded in the downtown area and when a policeman approached to investigate the mishap, the driver fled.

The police officer checked the passenger, who had been seated behind the driver, and found it was the corpse of a man who had died some time before.

     

[PeteSC]

Yeah, but was the corpse wearing a helmet?

 

Tijuana?  There has to be more to this story.

  'The corpse was interrogated, and detained, and is being charged with posession of a stolen motorcycle, resisting arrest, and smelling bad.'

[billster]

It was simply 'Bargain Juan's Mortuary Door-to-Door Pickup Service'.

.......and the corpse had a distinctive odor of formaldehyde on his breath.

 

[PeteSC]

He was probably headed for the border for US medical care, but didn't make it....

[Desolation Angel]

Actually, he had been waiting to see a socialist doctor in Canada...

[PeteSC]

In Tijuana it's Die to Ride: corpse involved in motorcycle accident
   

 
 
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican police discovered a passenger aboard a motorcycle involved in an accident in the rough border city Tijuana on Friday was in fact a corpse which the driver had been carrying through the city strapped to his back.

The motorcycle driver lost control and skidded in the downtown area; when a policeman approached to investigate the mishap, the driver fled.

The police officer checked the passenger, who had been seated behind the driver and found it was the corpse of a man who had died some time before.

The corpse was wearing a helmet and beneath it his head had been wrapped in a towel and bound with tape, apparently to keep blood from dripping from a head wound.

The corpse was also wearing a lifejacket the straps of which had apparently been used to tie him to the driver.

The corpse, believed to be around 40, had apparently been killed by strangulation and had wounds to the head and abdomen.

Police were searching for the driver. Tijuana has been rocked by violent crime, executions and drug-related violence in the past.


 

The corpse was wearing a helmet and beneath it his head had been wrapped in a towel and bound with tape, apparently to keep blood from dripping from a head wound.

The corpse was also wearing a lifejacket the straps of which had apparently been used to tie him to the driver.

  Wow, a helmet, and a life jacket!  Now that's safe riding! [/b]

[billster]

Jesus H.!!!!    Nice folks.  We need more of them coming here.

[Red01]

Could it be that Mexico requires motorcycles to have a passenger to qualify for the HOV lane?  

[PeteSC]

Man riding motorcycle with body charged
 
 
       

By Anna Cearley
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
November 2, 2005

TIJUANA – A man arrested after riding a motorcycle through the city with a corpse is facing homicide charges, Mexican authorities said.

Francisco Javier Salas Guerrero, 36, is accused of strangling Ernesto Martínez Ochoa, 38, on Oct. 21.

 
A homicide investigator said the killing apparently stemmed from a dispute between people under the influence of drugs.

Authorities said Salas put a helmet on Martínez and strapped him to his back to make him look like a passenger. Salas then rode the motorcycle through the city and looked for a place to leave the body, authorities said.

When Salas saw police patrols, however, he got nervous and lost control of the motorcycle, according to authorities. They said Salas ran off and hid in a parking lot, but returned and pretended to be a witness.

He gave city police a fake description of a person he said had run from the motorcycle crash, according to a news release issued by the state Attorney General's Office.

Under further questioning, Salas admitted he was the person they were looking for, authorities said. Drug-trafficking groups often leave the tortured bodies of their victims in vacant lots, though they are rarely caught in the act. Authorities said this incident didn't involve organized crime.

 

[billster]

WOW    !!!  There was actually DRUGS involved???  

[PeteSC]

Drugs?  Wow, what has Tijuana become?   I bet it's a place a hard workin' gal with a donkey can barely make a living anymore.

[billster]

LMAO...Hard working girl with donkey....

[PeteSC]

[billster]

excellent......!!!  Two donkies (donkeys?) and a girl?  ooooh LA LA!

[PeteSC]

Some of those poor out of work Tijuana Donkeys have even joined the migration, north......

Bowhunter kills donkey in Amity
By RICK MILLER, The Times Herald
10/17/2005
 
AMITY — A Niagara Falls hunter was arrested Saturday after mistaking a donkey for a deer in the town of Amity in Allegany County. Saturday was the first day of archery season in New York.
Conservation Police Lt. Ken Didion, of the state Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Law Enforcement, said Michael A. Crampton, 38, of 1158 Pasadena Ave., Niagara Falls, was charged with hunting over bait, a violation, and unjustifiable killing of an animal under the state Agriculture and Markets Law, a misdemeanor. Lt. Didion said Crampton was hunting next to a salt lick, which is illegal in lands inhabited by deer. The owner of the camp where Crampton was staying, Michael J. Hansen, 40, of 6986 Jennifer Ave., Niagara Falls, was charged with the illegal placing of a salt lick. The donkey, owned by James Whitney of 4521 Back River Road, Amity, wandered onto the adjacent property and was killed at the salt lick. Mr. Whitney and Mr. Hansen, the camp owner, notified Amity-based state police of the incident. Lt. Didion said Crampton told investigators he couldn’t see the head of the donkey before he shot it. The donkey weighed about 400 pounds and was light gray in color, he said.