Holy shit. Imagine the Cartel kidnapping Ralph thinking he's some big time V-Tuber celebrity. Imagine the look on their collective faces when Ralph's big "Help free me from this Mexican dungeon" only raises $43 after 13 hours.
See, thatās just it. You just know that Gunt has told this whore all kind of lies about how big of a baller he is, how successful the Killstream is, how much money he brings in, and on and on and on. The question is, just how much of that does she, (and of course her pimp or whoever else is running her), actually believe.
I thought after she ran the ācounterfeit moneyā scam on him that theyād figured out that heās a scrub as well as an easy mark so theyād just run every lame-ass game they could on him until he went broke because heās no good for a long con, thereās not enough money there to make it worthwhile and heās not about to be getting anyone a green card because HE canāt move back, much less bring anyone else.
Anyway, thatās what I thought before I heard this. Iām pretty sure everyone reading this already knows, but Iāll say again that where Gunt is right now, Merida, is one of the safest places in Mexico. Itās got a huge expat community there and the Cartel folks all know to leave it alone. Taxco, on the other hand, is in Guerrero State. Guerrero is one of the poorest states in Mexico. Thereās a LOT of drug production there. There are multiple Cartels there fighting over turf. Itās not like tourists canāt go there at all, but itās not like Merida. Youāve got to be careful going around there. Stick to the tourist sites, with a bunch of other tourists and a guide, during daylight hours, and youāre probably OK though you might get your pocket picked in the Plaza, but get drunk and venture out after dark, or say the wrong thing to the wrong person out there and youāll end up in Funkytown.
Whatās got me wondering is this. Say theyāve figured out that Gunt doesnāt have much money. What little money he has will spend a LOT better in a poor place like Taxco than it would in Gringo-loving Merida. Prices in Merida are some of the highest in MX because of all the expats there. So they lure him to Guerrero where that money will go a lot further. Tell him, (truthfully BTW), that itās way too dangerous to drive the Ralphatruck there so he should just fly in to MX City and then take a bus the rest of the way, sheāll have a car ready when he gets there to chauffeur them around. It really feels like a setup to me.