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I'll start
For me, it was when I took a trip down to Mexico with my Father back in the early 1980's. I was a teenager.
My Dad was cheap and we tried to save money sometimes by just sleeping in his vehicle instead of getting a hotel(LOL)
I'm guessing here, we were about 700 miles south of the border driving along the pacific coast side of the mainland and somewhere between the cities of Mazatlan and Culican my Dad was driving and it was starting to get dark so we started to look for a place to sleep for the night.
The area was agriculture with cornfields. My Dad just pulled off one of those dirt roads that went inside a cornfield. Yeah, this looks like a safe place(LOL)
Now my Dad had a 3/4 ton Chevy truck and he slept in the cab while I slept in our zodiac boat that my rich uncle lent us that was in the bed of his truck that we would use when we went fishing.
Well, about let say 2:00 in the morning, I saw headlights because I couldn't fall asleep coming right towards us and I heard men yelling. A small truck with Drunk Federales armed with weapons found us(LOL)
Mind you, we were isolated, it's in the middle of the night and we're in mexico and Drunk , armed Federales found us!!!!! They could have killed us and nobody would have known a thing!
My Heart was pounding LOUD out of my chest during this whole incident
My Dad spoke to the driver who spoke broken English. The guy was hinting about getting money from us and my Dad denied we had any(LOL). I'm sure if they pointed the gun at my Dad he would have given some.
Then, the guy basically said you can not camp here and to follow them . So we followed them to the highway and they turned one way and we turned the other. They didn't turn around.
For me, it was when I took a trip down to Mexico with my Father back in the early 1980's. I was a teenager.
My Dad was cheap and we tried to save money sometimes by just sleeping in his vehicle instead of getting a hotel(LOL)
I'm guessing here, we were about 700 miles south of the border driving along the pacific coast side of the mainland and somewhere between the cities of Mazatlan and Culican my Dad was driving and it was starting to get dark so we started to look for a place to sleep for the night.
The area was agriculture with cornfields. My Dad just pulled off one of those dirt roads that went inside a cornfield. Yeah, this looks like a safe place(LOL)
Now my Dad had a 3/4 ton Chevy truck and he slept in the cab while I slept in our zodiac boat that my rich uncle lent us that was in the bed of his truck that we would use when we went fishing.
Well, about let say 2:00 in the morning, I saw headlights because I couldn't fall asleep coming right towards us and I heard men yelling. A small truck with Drunk Federales armed with weapons found us(LOL)
Mind you, we were isolated, it's in the middle of the night and we're in mexico and Drunk , armed Federales found us!!!!! They could have killed us and nobody would have known a thing!
My Heart was pounding LOUD out of my chest during this whole incident
My Dad spoke to the driver who spoke broken English. The guy was hinting about getting money from us and my Dad denied we had any(LOL). I'm sure if they pointed the gun at my Dad he would have given some.
Then, the guy basically said you can not camp here and to follow them . So we followed them to the highway and they turned one way and we turned the other. They didn't turn around.