Hey guys - we're NOT Colombians !

"Mistaken". Yep .... the plates were not from Guerrero.
Unfortunately, this has been going on all year. Most likely for much longer.

Two friends of mine were driving a car with out of state plates, and were forced over by three men with long guns. They shoved the gun into his back so hard it left bruises.
They had to show their local Zihuatanejo ID to prove they weren't members of a rival drug cartel from another state in Mexico.
They were told they could no longer drive that vehicle, or risk being killed.

This is a tad worrisome for those of us who drive down, with our foreign license plates.
One day in Zihua we came across two young locals pointing to our British Columbia tags and saying, in surprise, "Mira.....Colombia !".
That's all we need: local drug cartel thugs figuring us out to be Colombians trying to horn into their territory.