Mexico City Scirocco Sighting

[marc at getty.net (Marc Getty)]

Do the math: there are hundreds of thousands of folks on the willing to
donate a kidney list that do not have a close enough match to someone who
needs a kidney. What are the chances that kidnapping someone of the street
will be a match for someone who desperately needs a kidney? VERY SLIM! Also,
why would they target tourists and not locals? It does not add up.

-Marc
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason [mailto:verboten@michiganvw.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 9:42 AM
To: Chris Bennett
Cc: Scirocco List
Subject: Re: Mexico City Scirocco Sighting

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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