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Mexico Balcony Deaths
Date: Tuesday, June 01 @ 16:11:21 EDT
Topic: Mexico Balcony Deaths
MexicoBalconyDeaths.com
Senators and Congressmen have failed to enact tough laws to protect consumer travel safety, allowing themselves to be compromised with election campaign contributions to induce favoritism for travel corporation interests at the expense of American lives. [ 85+ Americans, ages 18 to 57, have died falling from unsafe low rail-height Mexico hotel balconies since 1995.] These Mexican death-traps--built along tropical beaches--are still heavily promoted and advertized in newspaper travel sections, in TV or radio ads, and on interstate highway billboards across America.
Local municipalities have closed down amusement parks when just one person falls off a roller-coaster. However, all states permit U.S. travel corporations to knowingly sell to American families, Mexico travel tours to unsafe resort hotels with balcony rail heights (some as low as knee level) failing to conform to enforced U.S. building code safety standards. This, with tacit approval of House and Senate members and lack of concern for the foreign vacation travel safety of their American constituents. Read more about criminal fraud perpetrated upon citizens throughout the world who vacation in Mexico while simultaneously and unknowingly risking their lives in Mexico's unsafe hotels:
"About half the balconies in Cancun, Mexico do not conform to enforced (minimum 42 inches high) United States public building safety code standards." [which would force a shut-down of any U.S. hotel] "Mexico authorities allow this in order not to obstruct the ocean views." [Anthony Kleiber, U.S. Consular Office, Cancun, Mexico, May 18, 2000]
Ask why the State Department and Congress permit U.S. travel corporations to suppress media coverage of Mexico balcony deaths.
Vacationing in Mexico? First call the U.S. State Dept. (202) 647-6607/4000 to ask why it is assisting Mexico to cover up unsafe resort hotels throughout the country by failing to list the names of Mexico hotels experiencing low rail-height balcony deaths[ http://travel.state.gov/law/info/death/death_706.html] This prevents American families from making safe Mexico hotel choices.
Ask why they are covering up Mexico balcony deaths on their website lists of American deaths in foreign countries.
Ask your Senator or House member why U.S. travel companies like Apple Vacations "fail to disclose or warn consumers that Mexico hotel balcony railings are lower than the minimum rail-height required in the U.S." or why Congress permits Apple Vacations and other travel companies to "engage in fraudulent and deceptive [advertising] conduct," [Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, 4-11-2002, Assurance of Voluntary Compliance, Attorney General Michael Fisher and Apple Vacations ]
Anyone with information about Mexico balcony deaths, names of hotels, travel companies--local and national, selling wholesale or retail travel packages, newspaper reports, or death notices--or if you witness or hear about a Mexico balcony death [or a survived Mexico balcony fall] please contact:
Tom@TomFlocco.com or TomFlocco@cs.com so that the incident is not covered up by the U.S. government. Mexico balcony deaths will be recorded for the purpose of preventing the future fatalities or crippling injuries of individuals world-wide.
Recording deaths and injuries will also assist families throughout the world to prove that travel companies and the U.S. government know about the life-threatening hazard and multiple prior deaths, but still allow American travel companies to promote and advertise unsafe Mexico hotels to unwary families without providing complete and thorough warnings about Mexico balcony deaths.
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