No Peace on Playa la Ropa today
by katherine 
, Thursday, August 18, 2016, 10:55 (3740 days ago)
There was quite an ugly scene on Playa la Ropa this morning, involving a young Mexican woman who has been walking her dogs on the beach for the past few mornings. She has been told by the "doggie cops" that she cannot do this, but she has told us (and them) that she is a lawyer and knows her rights. This morning when they stopped her, she showed them a photo of the Mexican constitution on her phone, and explained that beaches are federal property and as such they had no authority to tell her she could not be on the beach with her dogs. The two gentlemen she was speaking with became quite agitated. They were actually yelling at her and calling her names. A foreign gentleman stepped up and intervened. He was visibly shaken afterward, as was she.
No Peace on Playa la Ropa today
by frostbite , Hamilton MT, Thursday, August 18, 2016, 10:58 (3740 days ago) @ katherine
Good for her!
No Peace on Playa la Ropa today
by katherine , Thursday, August 18, 2016, 11:08 (3740 days ago) @ frostbite
They also threatened to have the dog catcher take her dogs. Which they cannot do, since her dogs have collard with tags. Our dog has a service dog permiso to be on the beach, which they clearly don't like. When we passed by these two "gentlemen" a few moments after the above incident, they quite aggressively told us that our little dog needs to be on a leash or else our permit will be canceled. They see us every day and had never said this before. This was after we had walked along the beach picking up plastic garbage that always appears after a heavy rain. I asked them how much trash they had picked up. They proceeded to harangue me for not following Mexican laws while in Mexico. None of this made for a pleasant morning walk.
