[quote=deadzone]Seriously??? Petty shakedowns have been associated with Tijuana for decades, nothing new here. From my experience, they are a lot less common in recent years.

Does anybody else have real world experience with this? Would be interesting to know what others are experiencing.[/quote]
Here’s a good old story of Baja:

Back in the 80’s I was down in Ensenada camping on the beach at El Faro with a college friend. It was spring break and we were meeting a frat brother with his girlfriend at Hussongs. They got lost and went through Ensenada and headed south were they came upon a check point. Well the idiots were carrying mushrooms so they decided to down them all. Turns out the check point was for agriculture. We finally found them and brought them to the beach campsite. I sat the guy down and gave him his tent so he could put it up. We left him there and went to Hussongs. About 4 hours later we came back and he was sitting in the same spot and had done nothing. They were hallucinating for a day or two……..