Mexico City Scirocco Sighting

[verboten at michiganvw.org (Jason)]

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/kidney.asp


oragan theives......not so much


On 7/18/06, Chris Bennett <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>     Spent a week in Mexico City living la vida loca, er I mean man on
> fire...
>
> Depressing place.  There were signs everywhere about kidnappings and
> missing
> persons.  One sign said in spanish, " I am desperate, my son now three has
> been missing more than a year.  I could not pay the kidnapper's demands
> but
> I did sell my house and everything in it to raise 350,000 pesos... (about
> $35,000 us dollars I think) I am offering this money to anyone that can
> lead
> me to my son so I may bury him decently."  That was on a large billboard
> in
> the same square as the 14k gold angel statue.
>
> I did not have internet when I was down there, but I managed to get a
> message in a bottle via text message to Daun.  I saw alot of "VW
> Pointers" there, and like a million and one beetles, that were produced
> there until a couple years ago.  The newer ones are pretty sweet.  I saw a
> 1990 Beetle with plastic paint matching bumpers.  Most of the cabs are
> beetles.  Not too many oval windowed ones though... in fact I don't think
> I
> saw one come to think of it.  The Pointers on the other hand seemed to
> be more of a direct decendent of the original golf/rabbit, I see alot more
> golf in them than I do a Mk4 or 5 Golf/GTI.  Also they had ALOT of
> the "bunny truck" Pointer models.
>
> Saw a few Jetta's, this is a new name for them my amigo told
> me... traditionally they have had BORA's and "DERBY's", which both for all
> intents and purposes appeared to be standard Jetta's.
>
> The entire week I was there I saw one Scirocco.  It appeared to be a Mk2
> with an 8v.  It had a chrome grill emblem and no 16v body parts--also had
> the small bottle cap rims.  I stopped for a second and looked at it, there
> was someone in it, I waved at him and kept going.  Apparently the owner
> was
> rather offended that I was checking out his car, but waited until we were
> a
> block away to yell something or another in spanish.  He apparently wanted
> to
> kick my ass but when we turned and started to go back to "discuss" the
> situation, he turned and ran.  I am not intimidating by any means and
> neither is my friend... but I guess he figured descretion was the
> better part of not getting one's ass handed to him or something along
> those
> lines.
>
> I was telling my friend to simply tell him that I have a car like that
> (or three) and I meant no harm and he was like shut up and quit being such
> a
> damn gringo.
>
> Oh well.  I ended up with a horrible stomach bug, and had to go to the ER
> when I got back to the states.  They are pumping me full of antibiotics,
> and
> I ended up losing a crown so my return trip to Mexico City has been
> postponed a few days.
>
> And oh yea the other thing to worry about there is the organ thieves.
> Pretty girl buys you a drink, you wake up minus a kidney...  I  thought
> those were only urban legends but apparently it's a large problem in
> mexico.  Which is disturbing that if you can't drink the water... but some
> amatuer quack is going to operate on you and then leave you freshly
> incised
> in a tub full of ice water-- the same water you can't drink... (shuddder)
> Imagine that infection that follows.  It would be better not to wake up I
> would almost say.
>
> Also I read "Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson in one day there...
> good
> book I like the line about the soul being drawn out behind the
> traveler. (Jet Lag) and the whole "mirror world" concept.  Not that I was
> bored or anything.
>
> Take care all.
> Chris
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