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 an indicator of how horrible mexican society is 
#7924945 - 01/24/08 06:15 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://www.fox23.com/entertainment/weirdnews/story.aspx?content_id=242a6e9b-9593-404e-8430-29228ba1ac90
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico City has started a women-only bus service to protect female passengers from groping and verbal abuse common on the city's packed public transportation system.
Millions of people cram into subway trains and buses in the Mexican capital, one of the world's largest cities, and women have long complained of abuse from men taking advantage of overcrowding to sneak in an inappropriate grab.
"One time a man stuck his hand up my skirt. They grab your butt ... It's gross," said 27-year-old office assistant Lourdes Zendejas, who waited 20 minutes during the evening rush hour to catch one of the new buses.
The special buses pull up at ordinary stops but have large pink "women only" signs on the front and side. They were added to two busy routes last week and the city government plans to expand the program to 15 other routes by April.
Mexico City's transport system, which also includes hundreds of privately operated "micro" buses, carries twice as many riders as New York's.
"We were constantly receiving complaints of women being leered at, kissed or followed," said Carlos Cervantes, spokesman for the city's public bus system.
Mexico City already had reserved the first three cars in subway trains for women and children but this is the first time the model has been tried in buses.
Women using the new service on Monday had space to sit down and giggled as the driver turned away men at the door.
"This is wonderful. Men never give up their seat for us old people, no one is a gentleman," said 73-year-old Beatriz Perez, whose bulging shopping bags were tucked under her seat.
sexual harrasment is a way of life down there
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: 5150]
#7924953 - 01/24/08 06:17 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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Women go through the same thing in Japan.
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#7925055 - 01/24/08 06:42 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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You ever hear of the vending machines in Japan that sell the soiled panties of nubile high school girls? hahaha Those Jap guys are fucking freaks.
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7925092 - 01/24/08 06:48 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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I wonder if we could break into that lucrative industry by making panty raids and exporting...
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: 5150]
#7925103 - 01/24/08 06:52 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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I just got back from mexico city and rode the metro every day for a week.
It was fine. Sure there was an occasional leering drunk, but other than that it was way more pleasant than riding the metro in any other country I've been too. It even smelled like waffles in most of the stations! Nasal relief in a city of a million bad smells.
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: FondaCox]
#7925122 - 01/24/08 06:56 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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yah but your not hispanic so the mexi,s r afraid they will get in trouble by accosting u, if they got u alone on the beach however....
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: 5150]
#7925124 - 01/24/08 06:57 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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i was with 2 Spanish girl friends
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: FondaCox]
#7925147 - 01/24/08 07:02 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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since you've been you've seen that the population is comprised of a lot of spanish
decent and not just the ones of indian decent
dont ruin the illusion for the no0b
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: Prisoner#1]
#7925189 - 01/24/08 07:10 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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yah i wish we had more of the 1,s of spanish ancestry, then the little twisted gnome,s which r so common here is so cal.
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: 5150]
#7925222 - 01/24/08 07:16 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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The race doesnt matter, the culture does.
The best indicator that mexican society is fucked up is the immense poverty they have in spite of plenty national resources and a lack of wars/conflicts.
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: DieCommie]
#7925274 - 01/24/08 07:25 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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But those who are in 'poverty' aren't helpless...hardly ever did I see someone begging. Sure there were lots of street vendors, parking Nazis etc...
It's WAY different down there...and doesn't bother me nearly as much as the lazy bums I see up here.
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: FondaCox]
#7925442 - 01/24/08 07:47 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: 5150]
#7925455 - 01/24/08 07:48 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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you're wrong...I saw and definitely smelled!
BTW, Acapulco smells worse than Mexico city.
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: FondaCox]
#7925493 - 01/24/08 07:54 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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The worst of the poverty is not in the cities, its out in the country. There are many little villages where people scratch out an existence without electricity, running water, school or any emergency service.
Half of Mexico's citizens live off of less than $5 a day. Thats real poverty, unlike the so called poor up north who have refrigerators, TVs and schools. That said Mexico is the wealthiest 3rd world country on earth (if I remember correctly).
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: DieCommie]
#7925528 - 01/24/08 08:00 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yes I went to small town of about 1000 people in the middle of no where. And I still contend that poverty in mexico isn't nearly as bad as up here. I could totally live off 50 pesos a day...in fact, several days I did live off 50 pesos.
Tacos - 9 pesos
Chips - 3 pesos
Shared taxi - 10 pesos
Yup that's about all you need.
You know you're in a small town when every yard has 20 roosters in it for Saturday night cock fights.
Oh and in the city, the metro costs 2 pesos.
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: FondaCox]
#7925542 - 01/24/08 08:02 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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So your saying that the poverty in Canada is worse than the poverty in Mexico? 
Does that mean there are millions of Canadians sneaking into Mexico for jobs to get out of poverty?
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: DieCommie]
#7925548 - 01/24/08 08:03 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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living in poverty in canada is worse than living in poverty in mexico.
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: FondaCox]
#7925622 - 01/24/08 08:19 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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"And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything."
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Re: an indicator of how horrible mexican society is [Re: DieCommie]
#7925665 - 01/24/08 08:32 PM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
DieCommie said:
Does that mean there are millions of Canadians sneaking into Mexico for jobs to get out of poverty?
want to escape poverty, overthrow your corrupt government, dont become a refugee and a burden on another country
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there are 923 words in the english language that do not follow the "I before E"
rule, there are 44 words in the english language that follow the rule. this is
the shit our education funding is paying for and these liberals want more money
for education to keep making students stupid
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