ROBBED AT GUNPOINT IN MEXICO
Published April 28, 2023 · 10:14 · 162,117 views
About This Video
The full story of the robbery from the Mexico vacation: the one referenced in the non-miserable vacations video. Highway 51, a silver Mazda CX-30 pulls alongside the Land Cruiser, the passenger pointing at the wheels. Van looks down into the Mazda and sees guns.
The video opens with a thesis: for some of us danger is fun, and many fun things are dangerous. Snowboarding is slightly dangerous, motorcycles are very dangerous, Mexican roads are a little dangerous. Then the driving footage: how you pass on a Mexican highway, the speed bumps, the breakdown lanes. Then the robbery. Van pushed back when they asked him to get out of the car. That was a line he wasn't willing to cross. Two hours later, safe at breakfast in Ixtapa, he looked like he'd aged five years. The cheerful footage afterward is shock, not recovery. The video holds the contradiction: the more experiences you have with danger, the more you learn to mitigate it, and the more you learn the limits of your control.
Transcript
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patreon I'm not going to follow for some of us danger is fun and many of the fun
things we do are dangerous snowboarding is slightly
dangerous motorcycles are very dangerous Mexican roads are a little dangerous So This Is A Highway in Mexico when you look on a map of Mexico and you see all the
highway signs and all the highway lines this is what they mostly look like this is Highway 51 in
Mexico so I'm going to show you how you do a pass on a highway in
Mexico okay so I have my left blinker on I am communicating to oncoming traffic
that I am going into a pass and I'm communicating to that silver car right in front of me that I going to pass it
he has pulled over half into the breakdown Lane I am half in the other lane as I approached the oncoming
traffic if it if they were closer they would have pulled into to their breakdown Lane they would have pulled halfway into their breakdown Lane now
this guy's got his hazards on I think he's communicating to me to pass this isn't a safe place to pass now it is a
safe place to pass left blinker on okay person in the breakdown Lane over there that was not a safe pass for me I
shouldn't have done that but I didn't see those two guys on the scooter now I have open road and this is the highway and yes there are speed bumps on
the highway a I hit it too hard a little dangerous but
[Music] fun the more experiences we have with danger the more we learn how to mitigate it and the more we learn the limits of our control
[Music] were you scared I was annoyed but quite frankly at first I was annoyed but when they got out with the guns that were
half the size of my body I was like this and and I did push back when he asked you to get out of the car that was
totally inappropriate that was a line I was not willing to cross yeah well I was scared and I
think we were so cheerful in this footage because we were in shock I think we had just escaped a life
and death situation and 2 hours later safe and sound at breakfast in xapa
I looked like I had aged 5 years and I wanted melada cuz we were just held up at gunpoint
and um I need a drink [Music] so this is what it was like getting robbed at gunpoint in [Music] Mexico thank you betterhelp for sponsoring this Channel and generally making my life better
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description and the URL is right here we had just filled up with diesel
and we were getting to the point in the highway where the speed limit gets up to 60 MPH a silver Mazda
cx30 pulls up alongside of us and the passenger starts pointing to what I think is my
wheels I I'm up high so I look down I can see down into the Mazda and I see that both the driver and the passenger
have long guns in their hands and they weren't pointing to my wheels they were pointing for me to pull
over I pull over they pull in front of me they get out they have long guns in
their hands and radios with very long and antennas on their hips they look like Hector and from the
Heathcliff cartoons a skinny mean idiot and a big doofy idiot and the skinny
mean idiot Hector is talking to me in some kind of cartel slang I can't understand a word he's
saying now to you the viewer it's obvious oh this guy just wants money but in Mexico you get pulled over all the
time at checkpoints for cops legitimate cops that want to just check your paperwork and you don't just immediately
bribe a cop if these people were cops you have to investigate as to are these
cops so I said pelles pelles do you need my you know do you want my papers and they were like no no and so Hector kept
repeating this one word over and over again and Isabelle said the word in English meant napkins I'm not
cooperating I'm just saying we just want to go to the beach we just want to go to the beach and so
Hector with his killer eyes tells me to get out of the car at which point
Isabelle who's sitting right here very sweetly and politely says no no he's not
getting out of the car and at that point I said keres daero
do you want money and Hector said yeah he was like see like matter of fact of
course and I'm a New Yorker and everything's negotiable including a Shakedown so I pull my wallet out
there's 1000 in American bills and another 500 in Mexican pesos I pull out A500
peso bill hand it to him and the whole thing ends 500 pesos is like
25 dollars they go back to their car radio my license plate to somebody
we pull out I'm pretty sure they don't pull out behind us and Isabelle very bravely shot two seconds of footage of
the robbers as we were leaving car seats are not mandatory in Mexico so X was in the way
back playing with his P missed the whole thing thank God and that's our Mexican robbed a
gunpoint [Music] story driving down to Guerrero I fantasized about what I should or could have done I couldn't have outrun them their car was faster than mine I couldn't have pitted them without putting the family
in extreme Danger [Music] I had done the exact right thing but it annoyed me it annoyed me because the exact right
thing in that situation was to submit to the guidance of my
fear my well-trained fear you TI we had 2 weeks left of our trip and the remainder was golden perfect dad do you want to hold them oh
you hold [Music] them on this week's patreon only video I stole this episode from the new covetes by Charles E but the idea came from a patreon patron these are a few of my favorite things
Products & Tools Mentioned
- BetterHelp mentions — sponsor
- Mazda CX-30 uses — rental car in Mexico
- Toyota Land Cruiser essential — Van's vehicle
People Referenced
Charles Eames