Smuggling Illegals

[Twilight Flyer]

Illegal Alien Smuggling Gone Bad

The only thing I am going to say about this is....how on earth do you get 200 people in a secret compartment in a trailer?!?!?

About 200 Central American immigrants were hidden inside the compartment when it collapsed under the weight of the fruit Sunday in near Juchitan in Oaxaca state after a 10-hour trip that started at the Guatemalan border, Salvadoran Consul Nelson Cuellar said.

200 people?!?

Are you kidding me?!?

[Roadhog]

It's getting like that on Airlines now these days too.
With the high price of fuel...they will not fly until they have every seat filled.

For now...at least the tickets are no where near as bad as 5-7k...but that is only because Haliburton has not purchased NW Airlines yet.

This is especially devastating to our upcoming Strawberry harvest.
Look for fruit prices to soar. We may have to hire Legals at minimum wage or less depending on which State....or loopholes they can use.

[Jackrabbit379]

Huh? Haliburton is also in flying, and stuff? :shock:

[Roadhog]

Huh? Haliburton is also in flying, and stuff? :shock:

I meant that as a joke...if they were to buy into Airlines...then tickets would be like $5,000 to fly from Dallas lets say to Ft. Worth....round trip would be possibly $7,000 if you flew on a Tuesday.

[Jackrabbit379]

Dude, I got a headache.

Well, to stay on track, I think it's sad that you can haul so many people on such tight spaces.

[Roadhog]

I think they were all about 5'4" and skinny. If they were your average U.S. natural born citizen...you might have packed only a dozen in there and the floor would have buckled....and destroyed the poor bananas instead. :? :P

[Jackrabbit379]

Yeah, no lie.

I have seen a family of 10 ride peacefully in a mini van, so it might not be nothing for them in a fruity truck.

[Mr. Ford95]

Only 10 in a mini-van?? I've seen 8 climb out of a little old Hyundai car. 2 in the front, 4 in the back and 2 in the trunk. If they were good they could have gotten 10 in that car.

That fruit must have been heavy, 200 people at an average of 130lbs is 26,000lbs. Then figure in what the weight of the secret compartment was, then the fruit........it's a wonder they made it 10 hours.

[silvan]

Well, to stay on track, I think it's sad that you can haul so many people on such tight spaces.

If you want a sad thought, think about how many Africans they used to pack onto those slave ships.

[Twilight Flyer]

Yeah, but how do you physically get 200 people into a false bottom floor of a tractor trailer?!? Even stacking them like cordwood doesn't seem like it is physically possible. Again, we're talking about a false bottom and there just ain't that much you can do with a trailer and still expect the secret compartment to remain secret.

[Mack2]

Was this a standard van trailer except for the secret compartmant? Or could it have been like a moving van with the extra space in the botom?

[Manicmechnic]

Yeah, but how do you physically get 200 people into a false bottom floor of a tractor trailer?!? Even stacking them like cordwood doesn't seem like it is physically possible. Again, we're talking about a false bottom and there just ain't that much you can do with a trailer and still expect the secret compartment to remain secret.

I don't know if you seen a belly loaded FEDEX pup. A belly load pup has alot of room, if it was a 53' trailer room for more.

[silvan]

Yeah, but how do you physically get 200 people into a false bottom floor of a tractor trailer?!? Even stacking them like cordwood doesn't seem like it is physically possible. Again, we're talking about a false bottom and there just ain't that much you can do with a trailer and still expect the secret compartment to remain secret.

OK, let's see... A standard 53' van is 102" wide and 53' long, take away 1" all around for walls and it's 100" wide by 52'10" long. You wouldn't be able to get two deep without making it really obvious there was a false floor, so the compartment is probably 12-14" or so, and the third dimension isn't really relevent to the calculation.

The average Mexican is about 5'8" tall, and probably 2' wide at the shoulder. If you flip people head to toe, you can get more people into less space, because they're wider at the shoulder, and narrower at the waist. Figure the average people unit stacked in this fashion is 3' wide per two people. That's 2.77 people units wide, and you can probably cram in one more, so that's one, two, three, four, 5 people wide.

52'10" is 634" divided by 5'8" (68") is 9.32 people long. Call it 9 people from nose to tail, and 5 people wide. That's 45 people.

Even if you cram it up even tighter to 50 people, it still takes four layers of people to make 200.

It seems pretty incredible.

[Mr. Ford95]

Ya'll know it doesn't say exactly how the bananas were put in the trailer or exactly how many people were there. It only says "about" 200, could have been less. They could have made it where the floor was sticking way up and out of place but the bananas were not stacked inside boxes, but just tossed in loosely. You know, a big pile in the trailer to hide the weird looking floor. They just happened to put in way too many to cover the floor.

[Roadhog]

or someone ate some bean burritos before they left..and everyone all at once tried to bail. :?

[Jackrabbit379]

ooof. may be much bad. :shock:

[BigWheels]

I suspect a typo is in play here...20 instead of 200.

If not, perhaps it was a really, really long trailer.... :P

[Jumbo]

I had heard on one of the XM news channels that it was 20 people.

[mikey4069]

or someone ate some bean burritos before they left..and everyone all at once tried to bail. :?

:shock:

[Hat Rak]

Try this experiment:

After you get your trailer unloaded by your favorite lumpers ever and before you get your qual-comm telling you where your next vacation will take place, give your trailer a good ole fashioned sweeping out if you don't usually, only instead of leaving the doors open, lock the right door latch and let it shut so there is no air circulation inside the trailer.

How do you feel now, Dr. Quest?

Probably like a poodle in a microwave oven. They all probably died of heat stroke.