Thursday, April 02, 2009

The Time When Adam, Ryan, and Mark Briefly Kidnapped a Member of the Mexican Military and didn't Die



We see a military checkpoint ahead with lots of men with lots of guns. This isn't our first by a long shot, and they had all gone smoothly. For the most part these guys were very nice and took pride in trying to keep the country safe. They pretty much waved us through every time. Not this time. Signaling us to pull over with a pointed gun(a hand gesture would have been sufficient) we obediently did so.

We were told to exit the vehicles, which we did, and they collected our licenses and took down all of our information. We were then ordered to back away from the vehicles while they took a look. Our vans are full of tools, boxes, coolers, bags, and vomit buckets. Quite a few guys executed a thorough search of our belongings. They checked everything(possible casualty or 2 when they got into Adam's underwear). One van in particular was loaded pretty high in the back, and they went crawling through everything.

We talked to the Captain(?)(military boss guy) for a while, and he was impressed with our journey. He signed us off on some unknown paperwork(we probably joined the military) and sent us on our way. Trent and I jumped in the 2nd van while Ryan, Mark, and Adam took the lead vehicle. We follow them for a second when the brakes screeched on van1 aka Doxology(we were impressed that the brakes worked). A couple of seconds later a heavily armed man stumbles over Ryan out of the vehicle(I am positive that Ryan tripped him). According to accounts from our kidnapper friends whom I don't trust, they say that they started off and the guy didn't really say anything but shyly made his way through the bags to the front of the vehicle. Shocking them, he apologized and tripped out.

What Trent and I think really happened: Ryan really wanted a friend and it was obvious to him and everyone else that he wasn't going to find one on this trip. He is a nice enough guy, but he just has that "will you please punch my face" look about him. He saw an opportunity to have his very own army man to play with, and he took it. But to Ryan's dismay, people with machine guns don't like to be kidnapped.

We hope to have some military photos up soon, but Marcos has been very stingy with his pictures. We do, however, have Adam aiding Ryan and Mark in the abduction. And a photo that Mark fantasized of Ryan being beaten up by their 'victim'.

4 Comments:

Anonymous erin said...

Ryano is ALWAYS kidnapping people. This is nothing new.

8:00 PM  
Anonymous erin said...

Also, does anyone else think we should take this picture of Ryan and start a "Flat Ryan" fad? Forget Flat Stanley- he's lame. This Flat Ryan has already been through Mexico.

8:06 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Please start the flat Ryan! Seriously.

12:11 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

im with erin, ryan is ALWAYS kidnapping people. he kidnapped me like 6 times

6:13 PM  

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