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(Houston Chronicle) Unlikely Rural Mexican villagers seeking protection from outlaw gangs ignore The Three Amigos, The Magnificent Seven, and The High Plains Drifter...and dig moats   (chron.com) divider line 84
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UNC_Samurai [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 12:15:17 PM  
In the absence of modern order, the villagers have resorted to the basest of civilized instincts - self-protection. If they have any access to lumber, the next step should be a palisade.

 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 12:21:21 PM  
Look! It's a male plane!

 
Weaver95 [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 12:58:06 PM  
UNC_Samurai: In the absence of modern order, the villagers have resorted to the basest of civilized instincts - self-protection. If they have any access to lumber, the next step should be a palisade.

hmm....everything old is new again. BSG really WAS right - all of this HAS happened before!

 
PhiloeBedoe [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 02:14:27 PM  
A word or two of friendly advice for the citizens of this village: Anybody calling himself "Judge" comes by and offers his services, just say "Thanks but no thanks".

 
Linto 2009-03-22 03:46:12 PM  
NewportBarGuy: Look! It's a male plane!

How can you tell?

 
Batman in the Operating Room 2009-03-22 03:47:27 PM  
They need to sew ... sew like the wind!

 
Theological Farker 2009-03-22 03:48:18 PM  
Are gringos falling from the sky?

 
thereadlines [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 03:48:42 PM  
FTFA: armed raiders repeatedly have swept into both villages to carry away local men.

How fare the horses, women, and hedges?

 
phlegmmo 2009-03-22 03:49:16 PM  
Would you say it is a plethora of moats?

 
phlegmmo 2009-03-22 03:52:06 PM  
thereadlines:
FTFA: armed raiders repeatedly have swept into both villages to carry away local men.

How fare the horses, women, and hedges?


"Hedges? Hedges? We don't need no stinking hedges!"
www.streetcow.com

 
phikapmchugh 2009-03-22 03:55:23 PM  
It seems to keep the black knight at bay

 
moebetterbooze 2009-03-22 03:58:00 PM  
How fare the horses, women, and hedges?

They rape the shiat out of them at the number six dance later on.

 
Theological Farker 2009-03-22 04:00:11 PM  
thereadlines: How fare the horses, women, and hedges?

They raped the horses, and they rode off on the women. I believe many hedges were also pruned.

 
Somaticasual [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 04:02:21 PM  
When guns are illegal, only outlaws will have guns. The villagers are left with moats..

//these people need to learn the definition of the word "armor" instead..

 
rubi_con_man 2009-03-22 04:03:08 PM  
www.pekingduck.org

Unimpressed.

 
Theological Farker 2009-03-22 04:04:31 PM  
moebetterbooze: They rape the shiat out of them at the number six dance later on.

After shoving a living snake up their ass?

/hey, as long as we're going to mix movies...

 
Oldiron_79 2009-03-22 04:04:58 PM  
I hate you mongorians.

 
LeroyBourne 2009-03-22 04:09:15 PM  
So we'll make a new Rockridge. They'll think it's the real Rockridge, but we'll know it's the fake Rockridge.

 
Theological Farker 2009-03-22 04:13:22 PM  
LeroyBourne: So we'll make a new Rockridge. They'll think it's the real Rockridge, but we'll know it's the fake Rockridge.

Has anybody got a dime? Somebody's gotta go back and get a shiatload of dimes!

 
OnmyojiOmn 2009-03-22 04:17:02 PM  
i185.photobucket.com

/Obligatory
//I heard they even made a campy black and white movie out of it, too!

 
the_chief 2009-03-22 04:17:22 PM  
Mexican't.

 
bugdog [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 04:19:20 PM  
FTA:
Those sentinels, however, were removed when it was decided they couldn't stop a serious attack, anyhow .

No, that wasn't a quote from someone they interviewed.

Anyhow? Seriously?

 
robot_in_disguise 2009-03-22 04:20:58 PM  
Because that worked out so well for Tenochtitlan.

 
LeroyBourne 2009-03-22 04:25:02 PM  
Theological Farker: LeroyBourne: So we'll make a new Rockridge. They'll think it's the real Rockridge, but we'll know it's the fake Rockridge.

Has anybody got a dime? Somebody's gotta go back and get a shiatload of dimes!


oh god I almost forgot about that one. I lol'd

 
Theological Farker 2009-03-22 04:28:29 PM  
LeroyBourne: Theological Farker: LeroyBourne: So we'll make a new Rockridge. They'll think it's the real Rockridge, but we'll know it's the fake Rockridge.

Has anybody got a dime? Somebody's gotta go back and get a shiatload of dimes!

oh god I almost forgot about that one. I lol'd


*Takes a bow*

It's a sweater!

 
Obnox [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-03-22 04:31:04 PM  
We defy!

 
tenhigh 2009-03-22 04:34:04 PM  
img2.timeinc.net

sounds like they could use this guy's help

 
spickus 2009-03-22 04:36:20 PM  
I understand that the local police have been standing around drinking beer and looking snotty for a year now.

/You can have the mayor's horse, fried or barbecued.

 
chico_suave 2009-03-22 04:39:26 PM  
Because if there is one thing Mexicans suck at, its crossing narrow bodies of water.

 
OscarTamerz 2009-03-22 04:40:21 PM  
Fear of the Zetas

Like others across central and western Mexico, many in and around these villages assume their tormentors are the Zetas,


I didn't know the Zetas were that strong in Mexico. (new window)

 
Oldiron_79 2009-03-22 04:40:22 PM  
chico_suave: Because if there is one thing Mexicans suck at, its crossing narrow bodies of water.

I thought all the ones that could do that was already in the U.S.

 
Suede head 2009-03-22 04:47:19 PM  
People have been stampeded, and cattle raped.

 
clipperbox 2009-03-22 04:48:27 PM  
my little buttercup has the sweetest...

 
The Dreaded Rear Admiral [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-03-22 04:56:30 PM  
When do you think she will "open up her flower" to you?
Tonight. Or I will kill her!

/adding to Netflix que
//you just killed the invisible swordsman!

 
Branch Dravidian [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 04:57:32 PM  
rubi_con_man: Unimpressed.

1.bp.blogspot.com

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE...

 
RicosRoughnecks 2009-03-22 04:59:12 PM  
A daisy chain of EID's would stop those 15 marauding SUV's better.

 
NotWithoutAsswelts 2009-03-22 05:05:14 PM  
img518.imageshack.us
img518.imageshack.us

 
blicero 2009-03-22 05:07:31 PM  
I would have recommended bear cavalry with mounted Chupacabras.

/los pro y contra

 
AiryAnne 2009-03-22 05:11:26 PM  
Trying things like to keep out Mexicans? Blatant racism!

They aren't gangsters or whatever, just hungry PEOPLE looking for work. Stop being asses and let them in!!!

 
SporaticVoracity 2009-03-22 05:14:32 PM  
May the moats flow with gallons of Patrón. ¡Salud!

 
Monty845 2009-03-22 05:15:16 PM  
They totally miss the point of sentinels, the point is to raise the alarm while disrupting the attack long enough for the remaining villagers to mount a defense...

 
TaxiDriver 2009-03-22 05:16:01 PM  
A really good western. Wild Bunch (new window)

/ Set in Mexico

 
Sid_6.7 [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 05:18:36 PM  
Somaticasual: When guns are illegal, only outlaws will have guns. The villagers are left with moats..

//these people need to learn the definition of the word "armor" instead..


You failed to RTFA, didn't you?

They have guns, just not many, and not very good ones, especially compared to the opposition.

If it wasn't for relatively lax gun laws in the US, the criminals in this case probably wouldn't have very good weapons either. Did you think of that, or were you too busy sodomizing yourself with your favorite firearm?

 
gonzoliga [TotalFark] 2009-03-22 05:19:44 PM  
blicero: I would have recommended bear cavalry with mounted Chupacabras.

What? Beer cavalry? Then this thread is useless without pictures of beer in moats.

 
atomicmask 2009-03-22 05:26:57 PM  
Most of Mexico's violence these days isn't politically inspired, but the gangsters' hit-and-run tactics often mirror those of an insurgency. Government forces frequently find themselves without adequate manpower to be everywhere at once.

This is why you dont disarm the public. The government, even the american government, cannot be everywhere at once. The safty and defense of the people are entirely up to the people alone.

The government should start droping off extra weapons to the people, training them slightly, and teaching them how to kill as many of these farkers as they can.

 
cedarpark 2009-03-22 05:27:52 PM  
I would recommend a drawbridge for that moat.

/and some water wouldn't hurt, either.
//and sharp pointy sticks
///and more slashies!

 
A Tout Le Monde 2009-03-22 05:28:34 PM  
So, what did they do to the men they kidnapped and returned? It didn't really say. Perhaps, they just didn't want to talk about it to the camera.

 
cedarpark 2009-03-22 05:33:31 PM  
MOAT:
www.bbc.co.uk

TRENCH:
blog.awm.gov.au

what you got there, amigo, is a trench.

 
eidohntno 2009-03-22 05:36:54 PM  
OscarTamerz: Fear of the Zetas

Like others across central and western Mexico, many in and around these villages assume their tormentors are the Zetas,

I didn't know the Zetas were that strong in Mexico. (new window)


Just in case you haven't seen this one already - this is a must see: Link (new window)

 
spickus 2009-03-22 05:51:00 PM  
Sid_6.7: If it wasn't for relatively lax people breaking perfectly good gun laws (straw purchases) in the US, the criminals in this case probably wouldn't have very good better weapons either.

The Mexicans are using guns obtained illegally (in the US) to harm each other, I guess we'd better change US law.

I wonder if the people breaking the existing law will break the new one?

 
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