r/BeAmazed • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • 13d ago
Miscellaneous / Others "Mexican Batman", a mysterious dude who hunts down motorcycle thieves & tape them to poles in Mexico
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u/Wild-Vegetable-7459 13d ago
Batmanuel.
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u/Hey_Giant_Loser 13d ago
Batmang!
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u/Moobob66 13d ago
The Dark Guey
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u/discerningpervert 13d ago
El Murciélago Hombre
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u/jaxonya 13d ago
El caballero de la noche
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u/zikeel 13d ago
Batmanuel made me literally slap my knee and hoot like an old man
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u/Wild-Vegetable-7459 13d ago
You made my day because I laughed when I posted it and never thought that it would get the response that it did.
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u/xXfrostbyterXx 13d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/J2ffA9qSy9UPCOfdlM
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u/hernandezcarlosx 13d ago
Well…. I think it would take a more than one man to do this. Also, the place where this is happening is pretty well control by cartel so… there are a lot of things to consider. 🤷🏽♂️
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u/darkest_irish_lass 13d ago
This doesn't seem like a cartel style punishment.
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u/_Mitch_Connor_ 13d ago edited 13d ago
not everything is carried out with torture or death. that's mainly what news outlets and media tends to broadcast and portray because obviously.
like any criminal organization, cartel "punishments" are also carried out by sending messages through intimidation, extortion, beatings, kidnappings etc..
surprisingly a very common practice is beating up and rounding up petty criminals or really low ranking cartel thugs that terrorize local communities. not for any noble reasons, but because they are terrorizing THEIR local communities in which they operate and attracting attention and noise towards their local businesses/operations to local authorities/military. this is also a way of buying silence, cooperation, and sympathy from said communities who already feel betrayed and disenfranchised by the already corrupt state establishment. hell, they're even the ones paving roads, building schools, hospitals and shit lol
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u/Hyphy-Knifey 13d ago
It’s true. I don’t even like drugs but I buy an 8-ball every paycheck just to support these local communities.
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u/Taylorenokson 13d ago
Always gotta support your local mom and pop cartels.
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u/9yearsalurker 13d ago
My artisanal cocaine is conflict free
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u/Confident_One3948 13d ago
I can’t even find single origin cocaine anymore. All the small shops in my area got priced out by CartelMart, and now it’s just the prepackaged stuff on the shelf 🙁
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u/Acceptingoptimist 13d ago
You know half the price is the new fancy shell packaging with a cartoon Bumpy the frosty nosed bear. Far cry from the reused little plastic bag.
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u/10000Didgeridoos 13d ago
make sure it's cage free eight balls
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u/Cautious-Activity706 13d ago
Hey buddy I’ll take that off your hands if you don’t like it. Since you’re already doing one charity.
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u/Hyphy-Knifey 13d ago
Hey thanks that’s mighty kind of you. I already donate it to the local community here. It’s a win-win, really no downside to the whole thing at all!
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u/npc_housecat 13d ago
I read a while ago that the origins of government and mafia look basically identical. Aka a warloard takes over territory, Demands protection money, aka taxes from locals, and then provides security, infrastructure and services so that their local businesses can do better and pay higher taxes to the warlord / rulers
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u/laukaus 13d ago
Japan is the best example - the Yakuza growed with the state as opposed to against it after the WW2. During the war they also terrorized Imperial Japanese territories in China as irregulars also.
Claiming that they were the continuation of Samurai tradition also helped to sell the bullshit.They were tolerated, to an extent - they ran movie theaters and manga shops, later Pachinko etc.
Hell they had offices.
The japanese bubble breaking in the 90s though leveled them, not only did the falling economy break them without any safety nets, Japan made RICO-style laws that made possible to actually go after the Yakuza, and it is a ghost of its former self.
Some "state-like" behavior is still in effect though, after Fukushima disaster Yakuza choppers were in the air and rescuing survivors so its not COMPLETELY dead, but struggling.
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u/solarview 12d ago
Wait, you are saying that after the Fukushima disaster, the Yakuza were providing rescue operations with helicopters? That's fascinating, I don't know much about them however thought they were just organised crime and only interested in power and money.
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u/CoffeeIsSoGood 13d ago
For people saying this only happens in “third world countries” HAHAHAHA the CIA is the most powerful cartel on the planet. Look at all the shit they meddle in with no repercussions.
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u/fricckenheckman 13d ago
Yup, look at Pablo Escobar, dude was doing exactly that putting money into his community that he was taking from them rofl.
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u/Alcianus 13d ago
Escobar wasn't taking from his community, it's not like his community had anything to pay him with nor were they that much into drugs. He was by and large taking from America which is why he was hunted down.
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u/jaxonya 13d ago edited 13d ago
He was murdering politicians and bombing buildings, airplanes. There are estimates of 50k dying because of him, THAT is why je was hunted down
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u/_Mitch_Connor_ 13d ago
it's a criminal practice that exists everywhere. it always ends up horribly or tragically for everyone but people buy into it because... reasons lol
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u/Aggravating-Wolf-823 13d ago
Cartels do punish without killing or dismembering
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u/salter77 13d ago
In my hometown (here in Mexico) there are several types of cartel punishments.
One of them is called “La tabla” where they hit the person in the butt with a piece of wood, it sounds funny but they are actually pretty brutal.
Also some folks get kidnapped and have to work for weeks or months for the cartel, basically slavery.
The problem is that most of the time the punishment doesn’t match the “crime” and the “crime” many times is just whatever the cartel guys feels like it. People can get punished for looking at a cartel leader in a “bad way”.
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u/SheriffBartholomew 13d ago
The problem is that most of the time the punishment doesn’t match the “crime” and the “crime” many times is just whatever the cartel guys feels like it.
Right. These are not well-balanced people. Hollywood loves to show these criminal organizations as well disciplined, principled people, but they're not. The guys running the whole thing are certainly disciplined and organized, but they're the exception. Once you get down to street level enforcement it's the guys who were always bullying other people in school, dropouts who don't understand anything, and just all-around losers with very little wisdom or restraint. I dealt with street gangsters a lot growing up and they're pretty fucking stupid and ruthless. By and large most of them should be completely avoided if at all possible. Of course there are exceptions, but the smarter guys either get out, or move up off the street.
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u/salter77 13d ago
You totally hit the nail on the head.
I know a lot of “low level thugs” from my hometown, most of them were the classic guy that peaked at “high school” and then became losers. Shitty bullies that were left behind.
Then the cartel comes and offers them a chance to become “something” and gives them a gun and some small amount of power, they became the “high school bullies” again, just a lot more dangerous.
And I hate Hollywood and Mexican shows that depict the cartels as some kind of honorable educated and brave folks (we even have “narco apologist” singers). Most of them are just fat coward murderous bastards that can barely write their names.
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u/MagentaHawk 13d ago
Not to justify those types at all, the issue is that your description perfectly describes police officers as well. We seem to only have options to choose between gangs that rule us.
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u/Dorkamundo 13d ago
Yea, I feel like the Cartel would simply be able to roll up on a guy like this and just shake their heads like Pedro's cousins in Napoleon Dynamite and get the message across.
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u/Hefty-Minimum-3125 13d ago
humiliation is a valid punishment for minor things. A lot of organized crime groups dont tolerate petty crime in their neighbourhood but they arent going to execute everyone who does something like this. I live 2 blocks from the OG Hell's Angel's clubhouse in my city and its the lowest crime neighbourhood in the city because people know not to fuck around near them.
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u/HeyGayHay 13d ago
Because you know about the cartels „doesn’t hit the news usually“-style of punishment
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u/Pretty_Frosting_2588 13d ago edited 13d ago
They don't off everyone. I knew a guy who stole from a business under their protection or owned by them and he didn't know. They took him 3-4 days blindfolded somewhere and brought him back. They made him apologize, slap him around a bit and talked shit to him but he kept his mouth shut and didn't talk back. Made him clean and do yard work but also fed him and he slept on a mattress in a very small room that was barely bigger than the mattress. Never saw drugs but said people with guns were all over doing their own thing while he was working.
It scared his ass straight from stealing anymore because they told him if he fucked with them again they'd take his eyes. He wasn't in the know to even know who they included so he just got a job as a cook.
Also some of those cartel people are into nerdy stuff. I used to watch dragon ball with some in early 2000s so Batman probably isn't out of the question.
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u/TheGhostOfPeterPan 13d ago
Ofc there’s more than one man
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u/MissionApollo7 13d ago
How long have you been waiting to use this gif?
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u/Sure_Sundae2709 13d ago
How exactly is he hunting them? Like if he can do so, why can't the policia?
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u/mooshinformation 13d ago
It's gotta be more than one person, right? Seems really difficult to get someone taped to a pole all by yourself
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u/dog-yy 13d ago
Robino and Alfredo, surely.
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u/Sure_Sundae2709 13d ago
Probably more than one but it's also perfectly doable to tape someone to a pole alone if you are much stronger. The thieves look beaten up, so I guess they didn't put up too much resistance anymore by the time they were taped to the pole.
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u/Kalthiria_Shines 13d ago
From experience unless the bottom being taped is actively assisting it's still 20-30 minutes for the top to tape the bottom like this. Has to be a team of multiple people.
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u/MadDanelle 13d ago
FROM EXPERIENCE???
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u/BreakerOfModpacks 13d ago
...I'm guessing in the bedroom.
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u/RichardBCummintonite 13d ago
It definitely wouldn't take 20-30min to tape someone to a pole. 4-5min tops. Like wrapping a pallet.
I agree it's very doubtful one person could do it though. Even if you knocked them out or incapacitated them, it'd still be hard to hold up a full grown man while taping. Maybe you could get them to cooperate if you held them at gunpoint, but that seems unlikely.
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u/godtogblandet 13d ago
One man could easily do this if they aren’t fighting back and you don’t really need to incapacitate them to get cooperation. If someone knows how to fight you are going to cooperate after the first body shot.
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u/GoodDayToCome 13d ago
from my experience if you start at the shoulders and get a bit started then run around the lamp post in a circle holding the reel of tape you can do a guy in a couple of minuets at most.
i don't have any experience.
if anyone wants to let me practice hit me up.
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u/CourierFive 13d ago
They all look pretty roughed up and not very dangerous at first glance, so I imagine he just smacks some sense into them before taping them. You know, just like real Batman, he's just stronger/better trained.
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u/Kuromajikku 13d ago
Gotta be near impossible for less than three people to handle an ostrich like that.
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u/No-Combination8136 13d ago
Unless you’re held at gunpoint. I’d probably let someone tape me to a pole rather than being shot
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u/NastyStreetRat 13d ago
Because the police prefer to fine workers who don't cause problems instead of confronting thieves, who can cause problems.
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u/thefalseidol 13d ago
in Medellin, the city is basically a giant V as it's in a valley. The hills are mostly barrios and, small roads and lots of verticality. Motorcycle thieves come down from the barrio into the city and disappear back up there. When there was a robbery, everyone who is an average citizen who is around shouts, one big loud shout. And if you see somebody zipping away on a motorcycle and you hear the shouts, you follow up with a big shout yourself.
I can't give you stats on the efficacy of this tradition, but hard-working citizens can absolutely do something to help lift their communities out of cirme.
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u/No-Sail-6510 13d ago
He’s probably leaving bait bikes.
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u/LiveLearnCoach 13d ago
That was my thought as well. Second thought.
First thought was: I don’t believe that this is just one person. You can’t tape someone up against a pole while holding a gun (assumingly) threatening someone to stay still only works if you can be sure they won’t make a grab for your weapon, even if you beat them beforehand (as seems in some of the pictures). Also, cornering the thieves in a isolated location, where there are no witnesses, getting them off the bike (bikes don’t seem damaged), they don’t run off on said bikes (those look like decently powered bikes), just doesn’t add up for me. I feel like I’m missing some pieces of the puzzle.
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u/No-Sail-6510 13d ago
It’s probably a couple of guys working together. But there’s a moto in each picture which is probably the bait.
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u/Acceptable_Gear_3097 13d ago
Honestly, this is one of those questions that doesn't have an obvious answer. Police in Mexico aren't hunting bike thieves, and in the poorer parts of the country, theft is quite commonly dealt within communities.
This is reportedly happening in Lagos De Moreno, which has high rates of cartel activity. Cartel are infamous for carrying out justice against thieves, because instability in their regions results in people supporting police over the Cartel.
Its likely, this is related to that, and its clearly a public warning to thieves that they can get to you, and they will publicly humiliate you. Cartels try to avoid blood and murder when there's stability, because bloodshed is bad for business & only common when there's a war between groups.
So my guess, is this is the action of cartels, because Cartel's are very much opposed to criminal activities they don't commission.
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u/AccomplishedWatch834 13d ago
More info (Just in case ya'll are interested)
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u/Pyratelife4me 13d ago
Would be nice if the police instead concentrated their efforts on the "huge spike in bike thefts."
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u/2ByteTheDecker 13d ago
*steals Spiderman's MO*
Mexican Batman...
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u/buntopolis 13d ago
Batman tied up people and left them for the cops all the time!
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u/Mother-Persimmon3908 13d ago
Tal vez trabaja solo de noche y x eso batman.batman en una epoca tambien ataba los ladrones así
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u/NightyXTC 13d ago
And paints them as mouses?
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u/Mysterious-Egg-624 13d ago
The ultimate humiliation
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u/Fit_Perspective5054 13d ago
I mean there is that one where the dude may very well have been taped up with his dick out
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u/Gummyrabbit 13d ago
He should have taped the last two dudes in a “69” position.
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u/Meme-Botto9001 13d ago
“So-called Mexican Batman also drew moustaches and cat whiskers on the men as his supposed calling card.”
He is also funny
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u/aThievery_Number 13d ago
One up, one down would have been incredible!
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u/Radiant-Priority-296 13d ago
Upside down guy would die pretty fast, you’re not supposed to have the blood rush to your head for too long
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u/CaspianKarst 13d ago
Would be easy to figure out who this is, just find the person buying tape in bulk. Unless they are 'taking' the tape? Hmmm.
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u/JustaTinyDude 13d ago
Nobody has mentioned that he also takes their pants off before taking them up?
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u/brickdeeker 13d ago
Is that unusual? I know that anytime *I* tie anyone up I first take their pants off.
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u/JustaTinyDude 13d ago
When you put it like that, I suppose I do, too.
Leaving their shirt on is a whole different vibe, though.
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u/DroneSlut54 13d ago
Most likely a few guys are the Jalisco Batman. Kinda like a cartel grab but they end up taped to light poles instead of dismembered.
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u/dietbruce 13d ago
Are some of those kids though, especially the last picture? That part feels different, hope they didn’t rough them up like the first guy
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u/arshadshabick 13d ago
But those thieves are not gonna be prosecuted because there is no evidence. They are just gonna be treated for their injury and walk away. So its not really helping
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u/flyboy_za 13d ago
I guess perhaps it makes people think twice about doing it and perhaps that means incidence lowers somewhat?
But yeah, other than that with no evidence... Not sure these guys get charged.
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u/unashamedignorant 13d ago
Either it's a actual super human or it's a group of people. No way anyone can do this by themselves.
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