For more on Carnival, check out Mr Trend's posts this week at Alterdestiny. Though unless I'm mistaken, he let that oh-so-important figure slip by him.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
The Most Important Stat of the Year
Excélsior reported earlier this week that almost 300 people were arrested for public urination at Carnival this year. This was not a throwaway detail in the above-linked story, but rather its reason for being. Don't ever accuse the Mexican media for being overly Mexico-focused.
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It would have been 301, but I played dumb gringo... hey, it was dark, and there was a line outside the port-a-potties, and besides... I was behind a pillar on the beach. And, a dumb gringo with a full bladder.
haha. That was actually a nice part of the article was that Americans didn't make up a huge part of the arrested. Watching this video made me worry that we were a nation of serial urinators.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/mexico_builds_border_wall_to_keep?utm_source=videoembed
I ended up talking about the crackdown in the first (pre-Carnaval) post, back when it was just in theory (rather than in practice) that pissing in public was an arrest-able crime.
Aaaah missed that...hey in English is it usually Carnival or Carnaval? I had it as the latter in the post, like it is in Spanish, but then I thought I saw it as Carnival in a number of places in the English media.
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