{"id":3365,"date":"2020-03-26T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2020-03-19T15:32:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T19:32:34","slug":"our-first-real-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/26\/our-first-real-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Our First Real Scam!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After 3 months in Mexico, today we were hit with our first real scam. We have been asked quite a few times at military &amp; police check points for \u201cdinero?\u201d, at which point we play dumb and get waved on. Maybe, we have paid an odd \u201cgringo\u201d tax for food or something along the way, but today was our first real scam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were driving into a large town when a car came scooting up beside the Wee Rover. A woman is yelling and pointing at our wheels. We pull over and hop out. A truck driver says in broken English that she saw something wrong with the front tire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As she drives off, a guy in mechanic coveralls just happens to show up. We figure out that he works for the garage across the street, and that he would take a look. He has us pull around the corner on a side street so we can get off of the main road. Another mechanic shows up and they check the front wheel. He pulls out an old, beat tie rod end, and says that ours are shot. He then sends the other guy off for parts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other guy comes back with a woman and a nice sealed box. Here are your parts! I say\u2026you have parts for a 1962 Land Rover all set? S\u00ed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I then take out my jack to look at the supposedly broken part. The guy begins to look worried. While I am jacking up the rover, M tells him that I built the car\u2026.he looks more worried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wiggle the tire, the tie rods, etc\u2026all good\u2026and tell him \u2018No Gracias\u2019. He slinks away with the 2nd mechanic and the woman with the nice box of parts, who just happens to be the woman in the little car that yelled that something was wrong with the Rover.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good try. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 3 months in Mexico, today we were hit with our first real scam. We have been asked quite a few times at military &amp; police check points for \u201cdinero?\u201d, at which point we play dumb and get waved on. Maybe, we have paid an odd \u201cgringo\u201d tax for food or something along the way, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/26\/our-first-real-scam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our First Real Scam!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[489],"tags":[442],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico","tag-mexico"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ImxW-Sh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3366,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mackenziesontheroad.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}