Border Patrol Raptor Spotted

[saltiballs]

good thing for the government to spend money on when the country is broke!!! yay to higher taxes!! and to see that the tax payers dollars are being torn up because some patrol man feels like mudding!

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next will be BMW M3 police cars!!

 

[SQAudiophile]

Maybe it was confiscated from a drug runner?

 

[Baddkarmaracing]

Maybe it was confiscated from a drug runner?

nope they had 6 of them come in to one of the local ford dealers, they are buying these trucks but only certain agents are allowed to drive them. I 2 or 3 a week.

 

[gcmj45acp]

Maybe it was confiscated from a drug runner?

Not likely where the Border Patrol is concerned. Their order was pretty well publicized and the auto transports carrying the brand new, fresh off the assembly-line trucks were seen dozens of times and reported here on FRF on more than one occasion. No, they aren't confiscated trucks, they are ordered factory direct and the only ones that seem to be available with cloth interiors.

 

[SQAudiophile]

Fair enough. I guess it about fighting fire with fire. I like the idea the fleet has a few of these for senior officers. I do understand others viewpoints in the gov't spend.

 

[svt83]

Patrol vehicles are needed, and believe it or not, these aren't much different in cost than a Tahoe or the new Explorer! SUVs are expensive but necessary. You want to talk about things not to waste money on, call your congressman and tell them they need to give their raises back!

 

[mrmojoz]

blah blah blah

Isn't there a political forum you could go cry in instead? This section is about trucks.

 

[solarfuel]

good thing for the government to spend money on when the country is broke!!! yay to higher taxes!! and to see that the tax payers dollars are being torn up because some patrol man feels like mudding!

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next will be BMW M3 police cars!!

Even thought the country is "broke" we still need to protect our borders....

We need to cut spending, but defense is not the place.

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Isn't there a political forum you could go cry in instead? This section is about trucks.

haha this^^^

 

[Aaron]

Let me put it this way for you, if you're bitching about the Gov't buying Raptors for CBP right now and how its going to affect the defecit, well that's just plan idiotic.

Those trucks wouldn't even tally up to 1/1000th of whats wrong with our finances as a nation.

Anyhow, back to the truck talk. I think it's a good thing that they have these, it's allowing them to move faster over rougher terrain when the need arises. These guys need the tools to do their jobs, and a Raptor is definitely a perfectly suited tool for them.

 

[c-ne-elk]

Around here in El Paso, Border Patrol Raptors are dime a dozen. Have seen them out in the desert and they drive them like they own them! I have no problem with my tax dollars paying for them!