Mexico: Segways and Cockfights

Note: I wrote these blog entries in December, as I traveled to Mexico to report on the Craig Petties story. Now that we are ready to publish our articles on the case, we are posting them.

Saturday, Dec. 12. - We're working on a project that involves print and video, and my colleague Alan Spearman is looking for some dramatic images that we can use in the video. So we went to a public fair last night to film both a bullfight and a cockfight. The fair organizers have public relations guys who helped us get around. When it came time to go from the bullfight to the cockfight, they jumped on their Segway devices and rolled down the gravel path. This was likely one of the few times in history that anyone has traveled by Segway to a cockfight. A couple of days ago, a psychiatrist we were interviewing in a drug treatment center quoted Salvador Dali as calling Mexico a surreal country. I think it's an appropriate statement.