The official 'Decapitated and Had Face Sewn onto Soccer Ball' catch-all thread

Nice to see offering a post-death career to one of the faces. Football really is huge over there.

At least the gangs treats them like equals.
Oh wait. They removed his legs first. Still, classy.

Who figured we'd have this many beheading threads around here, huh? Betcha thought that one from a couple of years back would be our only one!

Northern Chihuahua State? Psssh, that's just a party school.

Well ain't that a kick in the teeth.

The upside? I'm sure flights for Juarez are really cheap right now.

Hope Sly is taking notes.

I knew a girl who lives somewhere in the northwest corner of Mexico. She saw a van speed to the center of this main intersection. These guys jumped out carrying a naked man. They cut his guts out right there in the street and left him there dead. He was probably a drug dealer, so no great loss, but she said the body laid there for a couple of hours before the police finally cleaned him up.

True story.

Not that your story isn't horrifying, Jet Man, but this other guy... it's the face being ripped off and sewn onto a volleyball that gets me. Who the fuck thinks to do that to a person? Somewhere, Buffalo Bill is insanely jealous.

Oh, it's nothing I'm sure, they just take soccer very seriously over there. The Buffalo Beckham is common practice, really.

So, Nick, the big changes on the website this year include merging CHUD.com with Rotten.com and Ogrish.com?

Gotta tell ya... I approve!

ETA: Face stitched to a soccer ball? Talk about getting your head into the game, huh?

This also proves that "Castaway" shouldnt be played at Prisons.

Nice one! Love it!

See, I was waiting for the first Castaway joke. All I could think of was "Hey, was that guy's name Wilson? Dork dork dork!" So I held off, lest I be that person. The waiting paid off - nice one, Ryoken.

Has anyone here read 2666? The madness in Mexico is incomprehensible. Great book that explores all these gruesome details, though.

I haven't read that, no. However, there was this article in Allure magazine about six years ago, and as simplistic as the source sounds, it was horrifying. It told about how for the past eight years or so (at that time), there were these gangs of men driving around these really rural parts of Mexico, snatching women off of the street, gang raping them, killing them, and then tossing their bodies out into the desert. I forget the exact part of Mexico it was happening in - actually, I think it might have been Juarez, but I'm not certain. But it was a really impoverished area where these women would get jobs as chambermaids in crappy fleabag motels that weren't even near their homes. Basically, they'd have to walk several miles at the crack of dawn when it was still dark, just to reach a bus stop to take them to their jobs, which were the only jobs they could get. Normally, it was along this stretch of road where they were grabbed. The magazine found only one girl who had survived - she basically fought them as hard as she could, at which point they tossed her out of a moving car, saying that she was too much trouble. I think they'd found the bodies of about 13 girls or so, and she was the only one who'd made it out alive.

Thanks for the compliment, Lisa! (I was stunned no one had made the Castaway joke, which was good, since plan B was making a "The man who would be King" one).
And "2666" is great, but its one tough brick to get through.
Also, the decapitation bit doesnt shock me (thanks, journalism school!), but the ball + face thing sure does.
And Lisa, I think youre refering to "Sin Resolución , The Mass Murder of Women in Juarez, Mexico".

The soccer ball thing is over the top even for Juarez. I wonder if they heard that Mexico is being considered for a Rambo movie, and decided to do something that would really attract attention like this so as to seal the deal, not unlike a country hoping to host the next Olympics. Facefootie scene could be the new Burmese mine race!

Baddie #1 "hey, that soccer ball looks like Pedro Armendariz!"

(Baddie #2 punts ball into back of the net)

Baddie #1 "GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLL!"

(Rambo arrows end both their lives in a most abrupt fashion)

I'm sure that's the one, too. They're not too good with archived articles on the Allure website, so when I did a search for "Juarez murders", nothing came up. But I think you're probably correct, it sounds very much like the article.

Without naming corporate names, I worked with a number of people who were based on San Diego but had to travel in to Tijuana to work at a plant there. There was a place in San Diego that they had to meet every morning at 6 am to all get into an armored Humvee which then travelled across the border and dropped them off at work. At their appointed shift end, they had to leave. Overtime didn't exist because of the risk to human life. They got back into the armored Humvee and it drove them back to San Diego. Finding bodies at the front gate of the plant was a regular occurence.

I'm kind of dumbfounded at how bad things have gotten there where we as a country are doing our best to ignore it as much as possible. I mean, we have to take some sort of blame for this don't we? The fact that it's a neighboring country, and mostly the border towns, and that now it's bleeding over into our country...it will get worse before it gets better.

Authorities should send out some women along this route as bait, but when the thugs drag them into their van, surprise! it's a robot-bomb-lady. Then they all blow up.

Seriously, fuck this.

Ugh, I know I should cite all my sources, but I've heard from US Army soldiers that we're aiding the police with training and manpower. It just isn't all over the news. With Afghanistan, Iraq, and threats from Iran, Pakistan, and Yemen, it's just not encouraging to hear how there's, like, 20 wars all over the place.

Secondly, and I may be wrong, but it seems these gangs are gangs-killing-gangs or dealers-killing-dealers. It's not like they're opening fire on random, innocent citizens, like suicide bombers.

Eve of Destruction Part 2!

They're not above commiting assassinations and killing innocents in the process.

And, though he was Colombian, let's not forget that Pablo Escobar bombed a Boeing 707 just to get at one man.

The Mafia almost exclusively kills other mafioso and criminals, but civilians get caught in the crossfire sometimes.

Fucking eerie, there were a reported 2660 murders last year in Ciudad Juarez. Six off from Bolano's book! May as well assume there were six more.

NPR ran a story last month that Mexico lauded one of their fallen police officers and announced his name in the press...the cartel then broke into the dead cop's house and killed the entire family to send a message. Violence has flared up after they brought in the Mexican army. I know Carpenter is working on something else, but Escape from Juarez can't be far behind, can it?

Yeah, I'd say we're more of a problem than we'd (i.e. Average Joe/Jane America) want to admit. We're the market for the trade, we create the demand for the drugs and to pile on we've decided to create a "war" over it all..which only makes things even worse. Spend 10 million dollars to wipe out one cartel/gang and another one springs up five minutes later to fill the void. But let's throw a couple more billion dollars down the hole so we can sleep at night and not have to worry about the widespread bloodshed spilling over into our country.

There is really only one solution at this point but it's never going to happen until the issue stops being so wrapped up in politics and morality. Take away the money, take away the immense profits this trade provides and it'll end or, at the very least, be severely compromised.

Here's an interesting article on the holy fucked up nature of Mexico from one of my favorite mags, www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/mexico-drugs

I have the distinct feeling that this chapter in the franchise would end with Snake strung up at the border with a dozen venomous snakes crammed up his rectum. Nailed to his chest there will be a note: "Tell those maricónes in New York and L.A. that this is how you get shit done!"

Winnah, winnah, Winnnnn-ahhhhh!

I know. . . the balls on these guys.

Or is it, the guys on these balls. . . ?

A tightening of the gun laws would help immensely as well. It's ridiculously easy to get any kind of weapon you want here in the States and everyone in Mexico knows it.
I live fairly close to the border so we hear about it in the news a bit more but I'm surprised the violence hasn't really spilled over. Sure there have been the drug-related murders and a rise in home-invasions but nothing like the full-blown war going on a few miles away.