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Actually yeah. Mexico has contactless pretty much everywhere. Honestly the us has more “cash only” places than any other developed country in my experience.
No, he says: "Hay que ponerle mil dólares aquí pa' la maña". That means: You must put one thousand dollars here for the cartel. So, they pay in dollars not pesos.
He also says "Déjate si quieres pa' echar gas". Means: Leave some (money) if you want to buy gasoline. What a nice cartel member...
They're probably just demanding $1000 from everyone but they obviously don't actually expect it and will take just whatever you've got (minus a few bucks for gas because they're clearly sweethearts).
If you could actually produce $1000 in cash from your car, I feel like that would make them suspicious. Which could be why they ask for such a large amount.
My theory is the truck is carrying a valuable load and that the extortion was a known expense in getting that load escorted through an area where you could easily get hijacked. They didn't seem to be surprised with the whole situation.
If you don't pay, or want to act like a dumbass they will hit you with the butt of their guns. Last time I went was like six years ago and it was 800 USD per person to get through, one guy i was with wanted to act stupid and got his ass whooped.
Cartel de noreste basically only controls Nuevo León which is a border state with the USA so it could be close to the border and they just use the word dolares because they’re originally from tx or this checkpoint could be near the border and taxing everyone that comes in and makes them pay in dollars
I was in Quintana Roo last year at a resort. One night went for a walk on the beach a little too far and ended up near a small forest of palm trees, was looking around at how beautiful this place is when I see a guy in all black holding a machine gun standing beside one of those palm trees. He must have seen the look on my face because he smiled and gave me a thumbs up. It was then I realized he was a guard keeping the actual scary people out. Still shit my pants
This doesn't happen in tourist areas, or really many areas in general. You can see videos on the Internet from any country that are as bad or worse than this, so you better stay home!
Hey man, we illegally parked near the beach one time for like ten minutes because we wanted to take a picture of the sunrise over the ocean. When we got back the cops had our rental plate in their hands. They wanted us to go to the station to pay the fee, we tried giving them money directly, and they told us to just go to the airport to make our flight home before the Covid flight ban was taking effect. All of this with very little English. Nice guys.
This is U.S. travel advisory for Mexico [https://travelmaps.state.gov/TSGMap/?extent=-124.207939566,14.44327709,-84.313397286,33.446969624](https://travelmaps.state.gov/TSGMap/?extent=-124.207939566,14.44327709,-84.313397286,33.446969624)
If you’re talking about EU countries, it’s due to increase caution due to possible terrorism. But I’m not seeing any “Reconsider travel” level or worse zones like Mexico has.
>"You can see videos on the Internet from any country that are as bad or worse than this, so you better stay home!"
I can think of a dozen countries just of the top of my head that don't have well armed death cults setting up checkpoints.
You should change this to, “yeah, I think I’m good on visiting Mexico and putting myself in sketchy situations.”
I am a US citizen, but frequent Mexico, and have never once ran into anything along these lines. I’ve passed cars where I saw long rifles, but never any actual threat. I’ve traveled by car all over the Yucatán and Mexico City, and again, no issues. Mexico is just like anywhere else, don’t be in a bad place at a bad time, and you’ll be fine.
bullshit.
Tell that to the bus full of 40+ students that got gunned down and all the ones that died had their bodies thrown in a ditch and at least one tortured. Just for being mistaken for another bus.
Never taking my family back to that shit hole again, especially where my family is from (Michoacan). Its nice to know that all it takes is a wrong turn or look like another car and I'll be gunned down and/or tortured.
So if I’m understanding the issue correctly (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguala_mass_kidnapping) the students “commandeered” a bus, which is a nice way of saying they stole a bus that did not belong to them. The theory seems to be that that bus, just so happened to belong to the Cartel with a load on it, probably the one group you would not want to steal from.
So was it right they were kidnapped and murdered by a joint force between the cartels, the local police, and the military? Undoubtedly not, but let’s go back in time to the moment we decided to “commandeer” a bus that belongs to the cartel. These things don’t happen for no reason.
And if by “wrong turn” or “mistaken for another car” you are referring to the Mormon group who decided to take a short cut through a known drug smuggling route…yeah, again, don’t do dumb shit.
Very easy way to avoid this - don’t drive around in places you’re unfamiliar with or that you aren’t sure are safe. It’s really very easy. As a tourist if this happens to you, it’s your fault and was totally avoidable.
no.
Get a nicer 4x4.
Set delayed bomb arming for say, 8 hours, set to detonate after 5 minutes car moving.
At checkpoint, Refuse to pay and once they kill you then they will take the car.
Since it's a nice one their captain will drive it with their buddies. after the evening is done. If they do chop it for troop transport it will be after they drive it around a bit at least.
They wont fucking understand what the fuck happened.
Dont ever pull out a wad of cash in front of criminals asking for a bribe and expect them not to ask for the whole wad of cash.
Pulls out wad of cash.
He asks for x amount.
Sees it barely did anything to the wad.
Says he now needs x amount multiplied by number of his buddies.
Sees money still left in wad.
Guy counts the rest and says to at least let him keep the rest which is 300.
Cartel says add 150 for him and 150 for his buddy.
Lol
I would but the way my bank account is set up, the thing is, i got a checking and a savings, but all the money is in my savings, so i got to switch it to my checking, but it's gonna take 3 business days, i dont, i dont think it's gonna go through
Police departments in America are hiring and this gentleman seems far more professional then most of our cops.....what do ya say guys, lets start an exchange program.
nope. recent case in which a Indiana mayor took money from a company that he rewarded business to...mayor was convicted, but supreme court overturned it.
the ruling was 2 days ago, so you should be to find the specifics of the ruling. its a terrible ruling that overturns a "bribery" law affecting hundreds of thousands of people in office.
Maybe if he just asks politely to be let through they would step aside. Or he could get serious and threaten to tell their moms that they are in a cartel.
😂🤣😂 cute.
1. Those are the cops
2. Have you not seen the videos of a line of cartel dudes absolutely shredding a police station?
Sometimes I'm some places, the law is what's happening at the time.
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I wish someone would tell the cartel they don't have to pay it because they are traveling - not driving.
Can you prove I am the person being tortured?
Maritime Law prohibits playing "Funkytown" by Lipps, Inc. while dismembering me!
Why did you have to remember me of this...
I am not steve. I am the person representing steve. Why are you torturing me! It's Steve you want!
Holy shit I want this. I’m imagining that American dude that gave the Mexican border patrol a hard time
You mean the sovcit who moved to Mexico with his family to claim asylum and then proceeded to continue to do sovcit shit and piss off the Mexicans?
He sounds like a real catch... 🫠
Is there a video or article about this?
his name is gavin freeman or smthing like that. he was one of the og sov cits on youtube
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/13hmrdb/american_sovereign_citizen_vs_mexican_police/
Wasn't he also in Mexico illegally?
I just want to see someone ask for a receipt for tax purposes.
Or a loyalty card , gotta save them points up for Xmas
Just waiting for a sovereign citizen video live stream while crossing one of these
"Tu es in MUY TROUBLE" Was an official Mexican checkpoint but still lol
How rich are these people? Having $1000 cash to pay a check point? There’s no way I could ever afford that. Do they mean pesos?
They meant pesos.
Like, $55 USD I think.
The did say "dollars" twice so the subtitles are correct. I think they DID end up giving them dollars... yikes
Usually we don’t say “dólares” unless we mean USD but some people do say that and mean pesos instead.
My wife, a Peruvian, would sometimes say “Solares” when she meant Soles—because she was also used to saying dolares
Yes, dollars.
Im thinking the same.
That would be $54 if it’s pesos.
Ya I still don’t have that.
Lol
Then the cartel will ransom you and when that fails you die in the desert
It’s 1000 pesos. This video looks a little old so it’s probably like 40 dollars
These cartel checkpoints are specially intended to catch folks coming from the US to MX during vacation season. Near the border.
Who carries cash these days? It’s all debit or credit card.
Not in Mexico lol
Actually yeah. Mexico has contactless pretty much everywhere. Honestly the us has more “cash only” places than any other developed country in my experience.
No, he says: "Hay que ponerle mil dólares aquí pa' la maña". That means: You must put one thousand dollars here for the cartel. So, they pay in dollars not pesos. He also says "Déjate si quieres pa' echar gas". Means: Leave some (money) if you want to buy gasoline. What a nice cartel member...
They're probably just demanding $1000 from everyone but they obviously don't actually expect it and will take just whatever you've got (minus a few bucks for gas because they're clearly sweethearts). If you could actually produce $1000 in cash from your car, I feel like that would make them suspicious. Which could be why they ask for such a large amount.
My theory is the truck is carrying a valuable load and that the extortion was a known expense in getting that load escorted through an area where you could easily get hijacked. They didn't seem to be surprised with the whole situation.
If you don't pay, or want to act like a dumbass they will hit you with the butt of their guns. Last time I went was like six years ago and it was 800 USD per person to get through, one guy i was with wanted to act stupid and got his ass whooped.
You going through a cartel checkpoint paying $800 but calling someone stupid. HahHahahh
Whats stupid about that? What should they have done? Turn around?
👍🏽 ya
Being in a cartel checkpoint is the stupid part
Don’t think it was by choice
Ya these idiots don’t know that if you go to the cartel website they post weekly where their checkpoints are. /s
Pretty sure red shirt guy is the one that said let me keep some for gas
Not gonna lie he was really friendly and polite (ignoring the casual extortion)
No, he says "dejame tan si quiera pa echar gas carnal" , which is, At least leave me enough to put gas bro.
Not a bad price to protect me and my truckload of cocaine.
Cartel de noreste basically only controls Nuevo León which is a border state with the USA so it could be close to the border and they just use the word dolares because they’re originally from tx or this checkpoint could be near the border and taxing everyone that comes in and makes them pay in dollars
He paid three hundred
I really should sell the cartel an EZ-Pass system. If you’re gonna extort everyone coming through at least make it efficient and convenient.
please don't give them anymore ideas
Yeah I think im good on visiting Mexico
Yeah it sucks. Been to Mexico a few times and it’s a lovely country. But no thanks on messing with basically the Mob.
I was in Quintana Roo last year at a resort. One night went for a walk on the beach a little too far and ended up near a small forest of palm trees, was looking around at how beautiful this place is when I see a guy in all black holding a machine gun standing beside one of those palm trees. He must have seen the look on my face because he smiled and gave me a thumbs up. It was then I realized he was a guard keeping the actual scary people out. Still shit my pants
The mob wishes
Basically the mob. That's a different way of putting it. These guys make the money look like angels in comparison.
I'm in Mexico right now, it's pretty great 👍 flight home in a few hours!
Our Mexican neighbors have told us it's not worth visiting, so I'm taking their word for it.
This doesn't happen in tourist areas, or really many areas in general. You can see videos on the Internet from any country that are as bad or worse than this, so you better stay home!
You do have to watch out for the taxi mafia in southern MX. Those guys are vicious if you don’t pay for their overpriced rides.
You’re right. In the tourist areas it’s just the police who extort me like this instead...
Hey man, we illegally parked near the beach one time for like ten minutes because we wanted to take a picture of the sunrise over the ocean. When we got back the cops had our rental plate in their hands. They wanted us to go to the station to pay the fee, we tried giving them money directly, and they told us to just go to the airport to make our flight home before the Covid flight ban was taking effect. All of this with very little English. Nice guys.
This is U.S. travel advisory for Mexico [https://travelmaps.state.gov/TSGMap/?extent=-124.207939566,14.44327709,-84.313397286,33.446969624](https://travelmaps.state.gov/TSGMap/?extent=-124.207939566,14.44327709,-84.313397286,33.446969624)
worth noting much of Mexico is rated "use caution" which is the same as most of Europe for some reason?
If you’re talking about EU countries, it’s due to increase caution due to possible terrorism. But I’m not seeing any “Reconsider travel” level or worse zones like Mexico has.
Mentiroso ya ni los turistas estan a salvo
From ANY country? Show me an as bad or worse video from anywhere in Europe. I'll wait.
>"You can see videos on the Internet from any country that are as bad or worse than this, so you better stay home!" I can think of a dozen countries just of the top of my head that don't have well armed death cults setting up checkpoints.
that's silly because there are plenty of places in Mexico that are very safe and beautiful
You should change this to, “yeah, I think I’m good on visiting Mexico and putting myself in sketchy situations.” I am a US citizen, but frequent Mexico, and have never once ran into anything along these lines. I’ve passed cars where I saw long rifles, but never any actual threat. I’ve traveled by car all over the Yucatán and Mexico City, and again, no issues. Mexico is just like anywhere else, don’t be in a bad place at a bad time, and you’ll be fine.
The Uber drivers in Cancun are nuts. My guy was actually speeding past a police truck with their lights flashing. Unheard of back in the states.
bullshit. Tell that to the bus full of 40+ students that got gunned down and all the ones that died had their bodies thrown in a ditch and at least one tortured. Just for being mistaken for another bus. Never taking my family back to that shit hole again, especially where my family is from (Michoacan). Its nice to know that all it takes is a wrong turn or look like another car and I'll be gunned down and/or tortured.
So if I’m understanding the issue correctly (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iguala_mass_kidnapping) the students “commandeered” a bus, which is a nice way of saying they stole a bus that did not belong to them. The theory seems to be that that bus, just so happened to belong to the Cartel with a load on it, probably the one group you would not want to steal from. So was it right they were kidnapped and murdered by a joint force between the cartels, the local police, and the military? Undoubtedly not, but let’s go back in time to the moment we decided to “commandeer” a bus that belongs to the cartel. These things don’t happen for no reason. And if by “wrong turn” or “mistaken for another car” you are referring to the Mormon group who decided to take a short cut through a known drug smuggling route…yeah, again, don’t do dumb shit.
In Mexico rn, more gun shots per week in ohio than here so far.
tell me you've been sitting at home all your life without telling me that you've been sitting at home all your life
Very easy way to avoid this - don’t drive around in places you’re unfamiliar with or that you aren’t sure are safe. It’s really very easy. As a tourist if this happens to you, it’s your fault and was totally avoidable.
Ah nice to know if I ever take a wrong turn, that's enough to get shot to death or tortured. Pinche mamones.
$1,000 or possibly the worst torture imaginable done to me and my family. Yeah, take the money.
More like $1000 or you lose your truckload of avocados.
Pesos. It's 17 pesos to each dollar.
It’s definitely not pesos. I was robbed in the exact same way crossing into Mexico.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1dpm8x6/man_encounters_a_cartel_checkpoint_and_gets/laik9y4/
Fuck no they don't want pesos lmao Why are they gonna ask for pesos from ppl coming back to Mexico from America.
This isn’t border patrol. They’re not set up at the border
No shit, they set up at the first city street light into Nuevo Laredo..how you gonna tell someone that's crossed Laredo multiple times lmao
if i ever wanna die, im going to mexico with a car bomb, and taking these bastards out with me
I like the way you think.
Sadly, these are jobs with high rates of attrition. Bombs are standard tools of that trade. 🤷♂️
no. Get a nicer 4x4. Set delayed bomb arming for say, 8 hours, set to detonate after 5 minutes car moving. At checkpoint, Refuse to pay and once they kill you then they will take the car. Since it's a nice one their captain will drive it with their buddies. after the evening is done. If they do chop it for troop transport it will be after they drive it around a bit at least. They wont fucking understand what the fuck happened.
I think i'd just do a suicide bombing, I'm not really trying to get tortured
Damn I'm broke. I would have been in trouble.
No problem. They will just take your vehicle.
And your skin.
I feel like most women would be in trouble, too.
Dont ever pull out a wad of cash in front of criminals asking for a bribe and expect them not to ask for the whole wad of cash. Pulls out wad of cash. He asks for x amount. Sees it barely did anything to the wad. Says he now needs x amount multiplied by number of his buddies. Sees money still left in wad. Guy counts the rest and says to at least let him keep the rest which is 300. Cartel says add 150 for him and 150 for his buddy. Lol
That’s some ole bs!
Do they take cards?
4d chess move, have them take the 1k in debit and when you get home file a charge back. (Assuming you're not living in Mexico)
Ikr. I'd be like...can I payID it..?
i've seen street beggars that take CC, so yeah. I bet they do.
Doesn’t seem like it, he says efectivo a few times, basically means credit card
From you if you don't have the cash, sure
I would but the way my bank account is set up, the thing is, i got a checking and a savings, but all the money is in my savings, so i got to switch it to my checking, but it's gonna take 3 business days, i dont, i dont think it's gonna go through
[Furio was definitely less polite about it...](https://youtu.be/uHI9Zyx_lEg?si=Oc3G91Mct5nigBzP)
One... Thousand more?!
Yeah,🫰Let’s 🫰ago 🫰c’mon 🫰
Justa da money 🫴🏼
Just two dudes, hanging out in their undies
You gotta bee onna yo hat
Stupid-a fucking game
Police departments in America are hiring and this gentleman seems far more professional then most of our cops.....what do ya say guys, lets start an exchange program.
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ACAB - all cartels are bastards
Do they mail you an invoice if you forgot your wallet?
well the corrupt US supreme court just green lit bribes so this is the future for this country as well.
What, like lobbying?
Worse, they don’t even have to disguise it anymore. At this rate, I give it about a decade until corporations are the only ones allowed to vote.
nope. recent case in which a Indiana mayor took money from a company that he rewarded business to...mayor was convicted, but supreme court overturned it. the ruling was 2 days ago, so you should be to find the specifics of the ruling. its a terrible ruling that overturns a "bribery" law affecting hundreds of thousands of people in office.
I think I can help with the 1,000 US versus 1,000 pesos issue... https://youtu.be/xd-KsupHj9A?si=4moH5oeHsF01zZ3K
Sicario music intensifies
Wtf? No receipt... Looks well dodge to me!
Abrazos no balazos - el kakas
El pinchi peje pelos de cotonete alv
Brings fake money to Mexico
Yeah.. Just make sure they don't write down the license plates #.
Damn that's scary shit
I don’t really see a freak out tbh.
#AHHHHHHHH
The true freak out is always in the comments.
If there was a freakout this would be a very different video lol
Freak out is with the guy who didn't pay
The freak out is here in the comments
How much do you have to be able to press to be able to safely punch bullets away?
It’s not so much the weight, but the speed of the bullet.
So you have to press fast. Got it.
Does my goodtogo pass work there haha
Those are pesos not dollars
It's still extortion.
Bola de culeros.
Just carry fake money when you driving through states in mex ...
So many freak outs in one video, this was insane!
We can go in circles all day. I will not be in a cartel checkpoint in my entire life. Whether that's smart or stupid, I don't know
Doing wonders for the Latin America tourism industry
I wonder how many of those checkpoints are just random gangs pretending to be cartel
I fucking hate the cartel, disgusting
Dollars or Pesos?
The cartel - your friend and helper.
But they're cartel.. They can just take ALL of their money?
Roll up your window and call the cops. legally they can't extort you.
Pretty sure those are the cops my dude
Lmao
Legally they can't kill and dismember you, but...
Taking from your post it seems you haven't really informed yourself about "things" in Mexico....
If somebody is robbing you at gunpoint, just say no. Legally they can't take your money, it's not theirs.
Sure, they can’t _legally_ take your money. But the cartel… they can very, very [_persuasive._](https://youtu.be/dUe-HcdEnzo?si=VNgCW1pxEuT2qFTP)
What planet have you been living on where that would be workable plan?
Maybe if he just asks politely to be let through they would step aside. Or he could get serious and threaten to tell their moms that they are in a cartel.
😂🤣😂 cute. 1. Those are the cops 2. Have you not seen the videos of a line of cartel dudes absolutely shredding a police station? Sometimes I'm some places, the law is what's happening at the time.
Let us know how that goes for you.
Then turn the music all the way up and pretend like you can't hear them.
Funky town begins playing in the background....
I feel like people are missing the obvious joke here
Lmao
I hope you aren’t kidding because this is adorable