Minutemen adopt Calif. highway near border

[Mrs Behavin]

SAN DIEGO - The Minutemen anti-illegal immigration group is going from picketing to trash-picking on a strip of Southern California freeway.
State transit officials granted the group's San Diego chapter an Adopt-A-Highway stretch of Interstate 5 that includes the Border Patrol's traffic checkpoint near San Clemente, about 70 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. The designation makes the chapter responsible for keeping the 2-mile strip of freeway clean.
"We'll be out there in dorky-looking vests, hard hats and goggles, picking up trash," San Diego chapter founder Jeff Schwilk said Friday.
Like other volunteer groups in the program around the country, the Minutemen have one sign identifying them on each side of the freeway.

Minutemen adopt Calif. highway near border - Life - MSNBC.com

 

[IntruderLS1]

Looks like I'll be a volunteer.

 

[GraceAbounds]

Looks like I'll be a volunteer.

Let me know how it goes.

 

[gLing]

Looks like I'll be a volunteer.

Don't get yourself hurt.

 

[GraceAbounds]

If he can handle Iraq, he can handle a little border patrol.

 

[gLing]

If he can handle Iraq, he can handle a little border patrol.

Well you never know. You can be Rambo and somebody can get the drop on you.

 

[GraceAbounds]

Rambo, huh? LOL!

 

[gLing]

Rambo, huh? LOL!

Nah what I mean is it does not matter how much experience you have, it takes one surprise to get you. My boyfriend is a police officer, he has never been hurt but he told me about how easy it is to catch you by surprise even though you are trained and carrying a gun.

 

[GraceAbounds]

Sorry, I thought you were making a joke. Yes, you are correct. It only takes one time with your guard down.

 

[IntruderLS1]

LOL It's adopt-a-highway. As much as I would love the glamor of a Rambo movie, I'll be picking up trash and doing my civic duty.

 

[gLing]

LOL It's adopt-a-highway. As much as I would love the glamor of a Rambo movie, I'll be picking up trash and doing my civic duty.

But you might get hit by a car

 

[IntruderLS1]

Don't worry gLing. I'll have good Montgomery standing by for the first sign of trouble.

 

[Dana]

But you might get hit by a car

I dunno why but I found this funny... so funn i actually had a laugh. I think I just heard you saying it in my head and it sounded so cute. Or what I believe you to sound like.

 

[gLing]

I dunno why but I found this funny... so funn i actually had a laugh. I think I just heard you saying it in my head and it sounded so cute. Or what I believe you to sound like.

I have no sound. I speak in ASL

 

[IntruderLS1]

LOL Want to hear something sad?

I looked up Minutemen of San Diego on Google, and the site it took me to was a fake!! I shudder to think where the donation tab sends contribution money. :mad

I hadn't heard back on my request to volunteer in a few days, so I went to the actual minutemen website and noticed that the earlier site I had gone to wasn't listed.

How messed up is that?!