"I am Perez."
"No, I am Perez."
This story was unusual enough to pique my curiosity immediately:
Border Patrol agents recently arrested 13 illegal immigrants disguised as U.S. Marines and riding in a fake military van, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday.
The Border Patrol gave themselves a big and well-deserved pat on the back:
"This effort is an example of the lengths smugglers will go to avoid detection, and the skilled and effective police work and vigilance displayed everyday by Customs and Border Protection personnel," the agency said in a written statement.
Outstanding. Of course this might have been more a case of blazing red flags than one of vigilance:
All of the vehicle's occupants wore U.S. Marine uniforms, reportedly emblazoned with the name "Perez."
How would you like to be the third guy who had to answer that his last name just happened to be Perez too? I mean, two could be a coincidence, but three? Four? Thirteen? What is "oh, shit" in Spanish? Or, perhaps, "Gee, I should have had a V-8."
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