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Title: Husband and wife shot by Mexican pirates on Falcon Lake (TX)
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Daily Mail
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... on-Lake.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Published: Oct 2, 2010
Author: Daily Mail Reporter
Post Date: 2010-10-02 14:57:19 by Hondo68
Keywords: Mexican Border Enforcement, Undocumented Tourists, Federales or Pirates?
Views: 8979
Comments: 11
A young wife has told of her agony after she was forced to abandon her dying husband and flee for her life when the couple were attacked by Mexican pirates. Tiffany Hartley, 29, said she and husband David, 30, were jet-skiing on a lake that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border when they were ambushed on Thursday. Her husband was shot in the head, she said. When she leapt into the water to save him, the pirates began firing at her. She then made the heart-wrenching decision to abandon her husband and flee to safety. Heartbreak: Tiffany and David Hartley in an undated image from Facebook. Mrs Hartley has spoken of her agony after she was forced to abandon her husband when he was shot by Mexican pirates Happy: The couple had been high school sweethearts and were married for eight years Yesterday search teams were combing the U.S. side of Falcon Lake in Texas for Mr Hartley's body - but authorities said he was being presumed dead. His body has still not been found. American authorities are having to rely on Mexican police, who said they were unable to search as their boat's engine was missing. (stolen) Now Mrs Hartley is having to wait and hope that her husband's body floats over to the U.S. side of the lake. Her devastating story emerged today. She said the couple - who had been high school sweethearts, married for eight years - had been sight-seeing on their jet-skis when they were set upon by pirates in three speed boats. Impossible choice: Mrs Hartley tried to rescue her husband after he was shot in the head by pirates - but was forced to abandon his body when they began shooting at her 'We saw that they had guns, so we started racing away from them,' she told the Denver Post. But the pirates opened fire - and a bullet struck husband David in the back of the head. He fell into the water, Mrs Hartley said. She doubled back and flung herself into the water in an attempt to pull her husband on to her jet-ski. There was a bullet hole in his head, she said, and his body was limp. She struggled, but his 250lbs body was too heavy for her 105lbs frame - and by then the pirates had reached them. 'I tried pulling him up but I couldn't,' she told the Denver Post, which said her voice was shaking. Feeling she had no choice, she abandoned her husband and clambered back on to her jet-ski in a desperate bid to save her own life. Bullets whizzed by her as the pirates opened fire once more, giving chase for what were the most harrowing moments of her life. Tragedy: The couple had posted many photographs of their happy life on Facebook. Now Mrs Hartley is struggling to come to terms with her husband's death - and the loss of his body A bass fisherman within sight said at least one boat followed her right into U.S. waters. But she made it to the U.S. shoreline and phoned police. Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez said Mrs Hartley's story was so incredible that at first he wondered if she had concocted it as a cover story after murdering her husband himself. But, he said, further investigation placed her in the clear. He said she was unable to stop sobbing when he spoke with her on Thursday afternoon, and kept asking where her husband's body was. 'She was terrified,' he told the newspaper. 'At this time, I can safely say she had nothing to do with her husband's death.' He said she told police that the couple rode their jet skis for sightseeing and to take pictures of a famous church in Old Guerrero. They were riding back when they saw the armed gunmen on the boats, and immediately began racing back to U.S. waters. Gonzalez said he had contacted the Mexican consulate to ask them to search for Hartley on its side of the lake - but their boat's motor had been removed. 'They are outgunned,' he said. Ambush: Tiffany Hartley has told police that she and husband David were jet-skiing in Falcon Lake when they were attacked by Mexican pirates. David was shot in the back of the head, she said. Search teams are combing the lake after he disappeared Texas officials have been warning against activity on the lake after at least five reported run-ins with pirates this year. Previous hold-ups have never been deadly. 'I'm not trying to place the blame on her or him,' Gonzalez said. 'But we've told people not to go over there, and now this happens.' Texas Parks & Wildlife Department spokesman Mike Cox said Friday that the state planned to issue a fresh warning to boaters about staying on the U.S. side of the lake. The last warning came in May, and some campers on the lake have taken to arming themselves. Falcon Lake is a dammed section of the Rio Grande that straddles the border. The border is marked by 14 partially submerged concrete towers that mark the Rio Grande's path before the lake was created in 1954. Cox said Mrs Hartley estimated that the shooting took place about five to six miles from the Texas shoreline where she parked and called for help. In April, pirates robbed another group of boaters who also went to Old Guerrero to see the church. Cox said the most recent reported pirate sighting had been August 31, when boaters saw gunmen riding a small skiff with 'Game Wardin' misspelled in duct tape on the side of the vessel. Cox said it appeared the pirates were trying to imitate state game warden boats they have seen patrolling the lake. Gonzalez has previously chalked up the dangerous waters as the product of fighting between rival Mexican drug gangs. Violence on the Mexican side of the lake has been climbing for several months, as a fractured partnership between the region's dominant Gulf Cartel and its former enforcers, the Zetas, plunged many of the area's Mexican border cities into violence.
Poster Comment: Shot by Federales protecting the Mexican border, or were they really Pirates? Mexico takes border enforcement very seriously. Many have been shot trying to enter Mexico from the south. They don't want Indio's (Native Americans) getting into their country.
'I couldn't pull him up': Wife's agony as she abandons her husband after he is shot by Mexican pirates while jet-skiing
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
It doesn't really matter, does it? Shooting them like that isn't justified- I don't give a shit WHO pulled the trigger. I fucking HATE messycans. A bunch of roaches, on two legs...
Getting tired of the bozoed calcon following me around on the 'net, wanting to discuss "tossing salad." Sorry, you sick rump-ranger. NOT interested.
If you have calcon bozo'd how do you know he's following you?
TEXAS! The home of Steers, and Queers..... BLOAT!! Lock n Load!!
"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee
Now you have done it war; given the thin gray line of his meager brain pan one too many thoughts to process. If he had more neurons, he would be in pain right now. Shame on you. ;-D
Now you have done it war; given the thin gray line of his meager brain pan one too many thoughts to process. If he had more neurons, he would be in pain right now. Shame on you. ;-D You overestimate war, and underestimate me. I found calcon had been following me around, when I started my computer, and the cookies had been reset. If you like, check the replies from me to calcon, and you'll see what I mean. As to your... unsophisticated... attempt at humor, perhaps applying a few more neurons on your part, would make you more successful in your attempts at witty bantor. But then again, I'm probably overestimating you.
Getting tired of the bozoed calcon following me around on the 'net, wanting to discuss "tossing salad." Sorry, you sick rump-ranger. NOT interested.
I am more familiar with Linux then windoz, which until I repave is the only OS on the laptop I use for forums. I stick to wifi while here, as I am picky as to who gets my home IP# and ISP. In my experience, I've found people who accuse others of stalking them on the Internet as being overly paranoid and worrying about too much. But if I were too cautious, I wouldn't be using my real name in here, and anyone is welcome to come and look for me on my home turf if they are open about it. But you feel free to worry and fret about that you wish too. I don't care.
I found calcon had been following me around, when I started my computer, and the cookies had been reset. If you like, check the replies from me to calcon, and you'll see what I mean. erica, you are and will always remain my BITCH,
Capitalist Erica must be a great chef. All the guys in the soup kitchen line all talk about how well he "TOSSES SALAD".
war, if you'd had to spent your entire life dodging creditors, subpoena's, and a good days' work like erica has, you too would be paranoid.
Capitalist Erica you're just not worth screwing with anymore, you're just a stone waste of white.
Even if true, so what? Are you saying that being a good little law abiding nanny state worker would be better? I guess so, so as long as it's your buds making the rules in YOUR interest. Don't forget, that scenario can change in a heartbeat. Hmmmm maybe it already has.
Oh, he is very paranoid. Not to long ago in this forum he claimed I had screwed with his credit rating or something like that (eyes rolling).
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
little erica is just a little wienie who runs his large, stupid mouth then hides behind his mommy's skirt (aka bozo list). funny you would stick up for that little pussy, you're not the type to run from a pissing match.
Why does capitalist erica have such a fixation on me? I'm straight, have a job, not homeless and can go within 500 yds of a school. I therefore have nothing in common with erica
Shot by Federales protecting the Mexican border, or were they really Pirates? Mexico takes border enforcement very seriously. Many have been shot trying to enter Mexico from the south. They don't want Indio's (Native Americans) getting into their country.
#2. To: Capitalist Eric, calcon (#1)
#3. To: hondo68 (#0)
"Texas officials have been warning against activity on the lake after at least five reported run-ins with pirates this year. Previous hold-ups have never been deadly. 'I'm not trying to place the blame on her or him,' Gonzalez said. 'But we've told people not to go over there, and now this happens.'"
#4. To: war (#2)
"If you have calcon bozo'd how do you know he's following you?"
Les personnes faibles ne peuvent être sincères.
#5. To: Ferret Mike (#4)
To: war "If you have calcon bozo'd how do you know he's following you?"
#6. To: Capitalist Eric (#5)
(Edited)
Les personnes faibles ne peuvent être sincères.
#7. To: Capitalist Eric, ferret mike (#5)
You overestimate war, and underestimate me.
#8. To: war, capitalist eric, ferret mike (#2)
#9. To: calcon (#8)
war, if you'd had to spent your entire life dodging creditors, subpoena's, and a good days' work like erica has, you too would be paranoid.
#10. To: calcon (#8)
#11. To: mininggold (#9)
Even if true, so what?
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