• jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    arrow-down
    6
    ·
    2 months ago

    I’m clearly too tired to be online… read that as “Family of murdered Mexico surfers say men weren’t reckless, they were mature lovers…”

    I’m going to take a nap now.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    I definitely wouldn’t associate Baja with narco gangs. I think of Baja and the first thing that comes to mind is surfers.

  • platypus_plumba@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    Once again. If you’re traveling to a developing country and someone tries to steal from you, what do you do? YOU LET IT HAPPEN.

    Why? Because for them your phone is worth more than your life.

    You let it happen, don’t look at their faces, don’t scream, don’t run, don’t move your hands, don’t try to bargain, don’t chase after them, don’t look in their direction once they are gone…

    You come from a rich country, you’ll recover financially, just let it happen and move on. It’s crazy how rich people come to these countries thinking they have some kind of imaginary bulletproof shield.

    I saw a thieve kill a teenage girl because she resisted for a couple of seconds. Bam, stabbed in the neck, she dropped after 3 seconds.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    2 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Callum, 33 and his brother Jake Robinson, 30, along with their friend, Carter Rhoad, 30, of San Diego, were shot in the head execution style by car thieves on a surfing trip to Baja, according to Mexican authorities.

    Kara spoke to Callum and Jake’s mother, Debra Robinson, after their deaths and told her how she’d personally camped over a dozen times in the exact location where the men were reportedly staying when they were killed – and how she had traveled even further down the peninsula to more remote areas with only two other women with her.

    Following the murders of the surfers, he wrote an editorial for TalkBaja about his own horrific experience, detailing how he was beaten unconscious with a crowbar and how the men slit his wife’s throat and tossed her off the cliff in a case of extreme violence near his home in San Quintín, Baja California.

    About a week after the three men failed to check into a local Airbnb and their families could not get in contact with them, their bodies were found on 3 May down a well in a remote area miles from where they had reportedly set up camp in Punta San José.

    Kara added that as a surfer, “you are aware of elements of danger but you go in cautious, keep your head on you, don’t drive at night, set up camp, and pay the rancher to stay on his land - which affords safety,” she explained.

    Chief state prosecutor María Elena Andrade Ramírez said on Sunday that she believed the alleged killers, three men who have been arrested, drove by and saw the surfers’ pickup truck and tents, and wanted to steal their tires.


    The original article contains 1,723 words, the summary contains 285 words. Saved 83%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!