Maybe they were smoking weed? Ten burgers each or 8 each if the hostage was included in the buy.

quote Police said the discovery unfolded about noon when an officer stopped a car for running a stop sign. Inside he found 19-year-old Hector Munoz, a foreign national, driving without a license. He had misdemeanor warrants out of Phoenix and wouldn't explain why he had three bags with more than 40 hamburgers. Acting on a hunch, officers did a welfare check at a nearby house in the 16000 block of West Mesquite Drive that had previously generated suspicious activity calls. Police captured two men who ran out the back and one more inside. They said discovered the woman at the house, who ran out and reported the Phoenix kidnapping early that morning. Suspects at the house were identified as: Luis Gerardo Espinoza-Gonzalez, 22; Juan Carlos Armenta, 20; and a 17-year-old foreign national whose name was not released.

http://www.azcentral.com/co...dnapping0810-ON.html

White Castle... he had the crave.

Is anyone else bothered that foreign nationals are kidnapping people in our country?

quote Originally posted by Doug85GT: Is anyone else bothered that foreign nationals are kidnapping people in our country?

Yea really. What gives?

Brad

"Foreign National" is a much prettier name than "illegal alien" don't you think?

Although, I could be wrong, they could be here legally, and retain their home citizenship. And, yes, I'm REALLY curious how this all plays out, and the story behind it.

What?
No allegations or accusations of profiling, no mistreatment charges? Surely the police did something wrong here that was against the "Foreign Nationals" rights.

Good Job Mr. Policeman.

Ron

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"Sir why do you have 40 hamburgers?" "To eat officer...would you like one?"

I'm not sure exactly what would have gone down had I been pulled over the night me and my buddy did a 40s run this past semester. We had about 30, 40s of various types in boxes in the bed of my truck. I'm sure I would have been hassled but like driving with a **** ton of hamburgers, it ain't illegal!

~ Derek

quote Originally posted by Zeb: "Foreign National" is a much prettier name than "illegal alien" don't you think? Although, I could be wrong, they could be here legally, and retain their home citizenship. And, yes, I'm REALLY curious how this all plays out, and the story behind it.

There is quite a bit of ridicule of the “foreign national” term in the article comments. It’s a new term used by the Phoenix paper to replace “undocumented immigrant”, the term used to replace “illegal alien”.

The suspects were likely Mexican citizens (Mexican nationals). The “foreign national” in Arizona is what the Border Patrol calls “other than Mexican” or “OTM”. The newspaper is so far into Newspeak (1984) that the description being used is deliberately misleading.

I'm SO disappointed that I was actually right about that. I was really willing to believe they were, I don't know, Irish or something.

Back on topic: If it had been 40 doughnuts....

That poor lady.