Wednesday, December 24, 2008

thinking of warren

I ran across this item of news on the AP today. The article began as follows:


Mexican beauty queen arrested in gun-filled truck
By ARTURO PEREZ – 2 hours ago
GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — A reigning Mexican beauty queen from the drug-plagued state of Sinaloa was arrested with suspected gang members in a truck filled guns and ammunition, police say.

Miss Sinaloa 2008 Laura Zuniga stared at the ground, with her flowing dark hair concealing her face, as she stood squeezed between seven alleged gunmen lined up before journalists. Soldiers wearing ski masks guarded the 23-year-old model and the suspects.
Zuniga was arrested shortly before midnight on Monday at a military checkpoint in Zapopan, just outside the colonial city of Guadalajara, said Jalisco state police director, Francisco Alejandro Solorio.
Zuniga was riding in one of two trucks, where soldiers found a large stash of weapons, including two AR-15 assault rifles, .38 specials, 9mm handguns, nine magazines, 633 cartridges and $53,300 in U.S. currency, Solorio said Tuesday....

Immediately when I read the headline - I thought, "There's a Warren Zevon song in that story." I wonder if somewhere in that stash of seized weapons, one might find a Thompson that was once owned by a mercenary named Roland.

4 comments:

RODRIGUEZ said...

that's something......about an hour from my grandfather's village .....old country...... where cowboys still ride horses... and old men still sit in the town square and give counsel.... but times are changing......

David Finlayson said...

send lawyers, guns, and money
dad get me out of this

Greene Street Letters said...

"I heard Woodrow Wilson say,"Vera Cruz has fallen."
mb

David Finlayson said...

Patty Hurst - heard the burst
of Roland's Thompson gun
and bought it