This is why they make moped drivers wear those construction vests with their licence plate on the front and back of it in flourescent writing.
And moped drivers are not allowed on the road, I believe, after 11pm???
I did see something like this happen when I was in Cartago. My brother turned pale as a ghost (it was his first and LAST time in Colombia). I was heavily involved in the whole forensics thing at the time so I ran to the car (along with everyone else in the town) to check it out.
Very interesting to say the least.
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If this weren't so f@cked up as it happened, it would be even funny.
But it is VERY f@cked up.
Camera films botched murders in Colombia
Sat Feb 24, 3:21 AM ET
It was like a macabre twist in a film noir: Confused hit men on the lookout for two men in a white sedan gun down the wrong people. Then they spot their intended targets, in the same traffic jam 20 yards away. And kill them, too. And it was all caught on a traffic camera.
It happened midday Thursday in the southwestern city of Cali.
The assassins struck as lunchtime traffic congealed.
Running up alongside the car, they blasted through the windows of the white Mazda. Trapped in traffic, trapped in their car, the passengers never had a chance.
Only after the shooting was over did the gunmen realize their intended targets were in another white sedan stuck in the same traffic jam.
Footage from a traffic camera shows them run forward and fire through the windows of the Honda. Darting away through the stationary cars, the hit men run to a waiting motorcycle and escape.
"The mode of killing has all the hallmarks of drug-related assassination and the fact that one of the victims in the second car had survived an assassination attempt three days earlier," said Gen. Luis Moore, commander of the Cali metropolitan police.
Moore said police caught one of the alleged assassins shortly after the shooting.
Colombia's third-largest city, Cali is in the midst of bloody clash between rival drug capos that has left hundreds dead.
