in Dog we trust
i watched an A&E special last night about Dog, the famous bounty hunter that has a show on A&E. he and his family have been hunting fugitives for 20+ years. he and his wife, his son and his brother are all part of the operation. from the looks of his pad, the huntin' bidness did him well.anyways, 3 years ago, they all went down to mexico to capture andrew luster, heir to the max factor fortune and convicted rapist. they caught him and got him back into the U.S to start serving his 124 year sentence. but not before the mexicans got them too. did you know that bounty hunting is illegal in mexico? well, it is. and apparently Dog knew. bad news.
anyways, they went to a mexican jail for like 4 days and then were released on bail. upon the advice of his lawyers, they never went back to mexico. the irony that Dog the bounty hunter skipped on his bail does not escape me by the way.
fast forward three years to U.S Marshalls banging down their doors last week and arresting them. now, they are out on bail (house arrest bracelets and all) awaiting an extradition trial that may send them back to mexico to face charges that could land them in a mexican jail for 4 years.
bad...real bad...you thought our jails were wack.
so, here is am awake at 11:45pm watching this special on the whole thing last night knowing full well that i have to get up early in the morning for work. but did i turn off the TV? nooooo. did i TiVo the program to watch it the next day? nooooooo. instead, i watched it all like a good little media addict and stuggled all of this morning to stay awake.
we all know the truth. luster would never have stepped foot on american soil again. mexico wasn;t looking cuz they don't care about our fugitives. the only thing that would have made a difference was when that sicko started raping mexican women the same way he did the americans.
so was Dog right to go down there knowing he would be breaking the law to do it? he seems to be okay with it, and said that knowing everything, he would do it again.
we'll see if he feels the same way after spending 4 years sitting in his own feces and fighting for his life on the daily.
poor guys, i feel sorry for them.
posted by pablo
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Post a CommentPablo: wow, this is a messed up situation. If I read you right, what you're saying is that Luster raped American women, then fled the country to Mexico, because Mexico would not cooperate with our extradition request to collect this miscreant.
Here's an irony: because Mexico would not apprehend and extradite Luster, and we had to send in a freelancer to do it for them, Mexico called upon us to... apprehend and extradite the freelancer? They expect us to extend them a courtesy that they will not themselves extend to us?
I guess a bounty hunter jumping bail is not the only irony in this story.
So, I hadn't realized that Mexican law forbids private bounty hunting, and requires that all apprehensions like this be conducted by appropriate government officials. I think in the future we should comply with this.
I think two battalions of Marines sounds just about right for this task, don't you agree?
actually, Mexico wasn't against the extradition. they only won't do it in a capital punishment case.
it's that mexico had no idea he was there. they weren't looking for him. he's on our most wanted list, not theirs.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, okay - I misread you. The way I read what you wrote (seventh paragraph), I assumed Mexico knew we wanted this guy, and just didn't care to fetch him. If what you're saying is we never called the authorities and asked, then yeah, we were in the wrong. I withdraw both my opinion and my Marines.
On the other hand, if we called up the Federales on the phone and asked nicely, and they ignored us, then I'd say yes, then we had a right to go collect this guy.
Now I'm curious, and I want to know whether we asked.
me too
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