Mexican Baseball Players Duck for Cover as Gun Battle Erupts Between Police and Gunmen
- Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:36pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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A baseball game in the Mexican city of Saltillo was sent into a tailspin Tuesday after a gun battle between police and four gunmen erupted near the ballpark. The question being asked now is: Were police battling members of a drug cartel?
Players from the Triple-A level Saltillo Saraperos and the youth team they were playing against scrambled to take cover wherever they could as police killed three of the gunmen and wounded another.
According to AP, local media reported there were no injuries among the players or fans, but photos revealed what appeared to be bullet holes in the team’s bus.
Sergio Sisbeles, the security spokesman for Coahuila, said the bullets started flying after gunmen opened fire on a state police.
Authorities have yet to confirm whether the suspects are involved in one the country’s notorious drug cartels. AP does add, however, that cartels are active in the area.
Fox news provides footage of the shootout:
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Secret Squirrel
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:15am.
Report Post »I’ve got a great idea.
Let’s make America just like Mexico!
Ain’t diversity great?
AmericaFya
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 1:43pmMexico has such a better culture then us White Americans!! Hahah!!! Geez! You mean to tell me if we give back the land we “stole” from you by kicking your ass in battle then we can have gun fights at the local little league games every saturday!!?
Report Post »SBR308
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 7:23amI che wah wah!!!
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 4:40amAs Neil Diamond said: and they’re coming to America…
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 12:35amSecrets KONY 2012 Is Desperate to Hide
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oNzzf76FV_c
http://www.infowars.com/secrets-kony-2012-is-desperate-to-hide/
pwatkins
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 12:03am(AP does add, however, that cartels are active in the area.) They say this with hesitancy and it is probably the closest to a true statement that ever came from the AP. If the however had been dropped there may be reason to believe they are finally getting it and really have a concern…but oh well, we all know that story.
Report Post »TheCoffinMaker
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:59pmYep, I’d start with homey Holder. I’d drop his ass into the jungle on a solo reconnaissance mission.
If we don’t hear back by from the turd by morning, I know we’re getting warm.
Those drug dealers and human traffickers fear no one at the moment.
I’d adjust their attitude a little bit.
I apologize in advance for what the pusher shakes you down for on a bag of weed.
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:57pmJanet N. said we were safer than we have ever been on the border. Send this article to her office and send one to Holder, so he can get someone down to check out the rounds fired and see where these guns came from. I guess we could send one directly to the WH, but between golfing in this beautiful globalwarming weather, campaigning(organizing), and the basketball games it may be a while before Obama sees it
Report Post »MittensKittens
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:40pmwhat do you classify this story as, crime..sport…what ever…if you have to think or consider the outcome, that’s the problem!
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:51pmQuick question – What did god mean when he said – what you do to Israel he will do to you? Israel is surrounded by people that want to kill them – our borders of the US are OK – Right!
Report Post »mgcre
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:28pmAnd who said, “it’s just a game”……LOL!
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:26pmgingrich supporter no doubt
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:19pmWhat the hell is wrong with you?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:13pmDid anyone notice the umpire, he was still standing in there calling strikes.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:05pmIt doesn’t actually seem there will be any place safe. And when God crushes all the things people hang onto as a rock whether it be their job, money, music, eating, etc, they will be forced to try to see the trees through trying to find their own anointed eyes, and it will come down as fire for many.
Report Post »BONETRAUMA
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:45pmRight On. Make a pine box.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:28pmPerfect timing for a triple play, and they blew it.
Report Post »obamathefailure
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:26pmmore obama holder fast and furious guns at work
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:16pmSounds to me like the good guys won this skirmish anyway, who won the game?
Report Post »HTuttle
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:16pmNo shooter! No shooter! No shooter!
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 7:37amHere shooter shooter shooter. Shoot.
Report Post »Eh, they shoot like girls.
martinez012577
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:06pmGreat news, Rick Santorum is going to save us.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/14/vigorous-santorum-crackdown-may-catch-internet-porn-viewers-with-pants-down/
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:33pmcheck out the speech and the crowd ron paul drew yesterday in illinois (over5000?). I am seeing the other guys draw crowds of only about 100
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uSjWlnAVT6Y
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:59pmYou know, I think I‘m finally reaching that point when I’m becoming comfortably numb to all the tragedy that‘s coming to America which I’ve been pointing out to people (while ridiculed) for the longest longest time. And I‘ve done my job and I won’t have any guilt. And when people say to me at some point down the road in time “There is a neighbor down the street with their family getting dragged out of their house” I will say “Oh.”
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:08pmI’d like to do a rewrite of the Pink Floyd song and change it to: Hey you, with your back to the aisle with dancing feet obsessing idols can you feel me?
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 10:56amTim I hope the unicorn with donuts on it’s horn visits you before the floods take your outer earth away.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:56pmIf only the Mexican citizens had a 2nd Amendment — there would be less of this kind of lawlessness. I live on the border, and we hear of this kind of gunfire just across the border. We’ve seen some of it spill into our world, but it’s kept all hush-hush.
Viva Mexico! Death to the cartels!
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:54pmJust another day of prohibition……
Report Post »semihardrock
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:52pmI’ll bet the players were running Fast and Furious! Say …..“Thank You” Mr Holder….
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:45pmI heard the announcer say, “That shot was a just outside.”
I guess “Free Gun and Ammo” night won’t be repeated.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 9:08pmSo, what ever happened to the “Hey, batter batter batter?” This is getting ridiculous.
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