Because apparently people are freaking out over a "handful" of attacks by "masked armed bandits" (not to be confused with lily-lickin varmints), who sometimes flash their lights to appear like the police. People seem especially concerned about the toll road that runs through Rosarito Beach. From the Associated Press:
In the city's Puerto Nuevo tourist enclave, which offers $20 lobster dinners and $1 margaritas, restaurant managers said sales were down as much as 80 percent from last year. One Saturday afternoon in October, masked bandits wielding pistols walked the streets and kidnapped two men — an American and a Spanish citizen — who were later released unharmed. Two people who were with them were shot and wounded.
Omar Armendariz, who manages a Puerto Nuevo lobster restaurant, is counting on the new state and city governments to make tourists feel safer. He has never seen fewer visitors in his nine years on the job.
"It's dead," he said.
I already told the story about the time we were in Rosarito and had our bathroom window broken with strange men climbing through it and really all we managed to do was talk about how somebody should do something. At that point most of my friends were DONE with Mexico, that was it for them. (Later, of course, we found out it was actually hotel security breaking in as they thought it was the room next door to us, this somehow made us feel better but I don't know, we never got an explanation of why they were breaking in to that room).
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