sure enough 15 minuetes after we started, the cops are around , watching us , seeing us clean up, and in an attempt to walk off, we were arrested we were excorted down and into 2 large trucks with another following us as well. there was no where to run to , nowhere to go , and even if we could run.. there is nothig out there but open plains and rocks.

we got taken to the back of the whole park. to a building complex that looked like something out of way of the gun or some other stereo typical mexican town where we were sure to meet our demise. we were searched and and i thought for sure here is where we get our asses kicked and we lose all the cameras, video cameras and all our money , if not our lives. it was pretty sktechy feeling, but at the same time I knew if I was to die then .. I would have died doing somethign I loved.. and I was ok with that. I still took out the DV tapes and memory sticks out of the cameras in case they did take our things , there was a slight chance I could get away with these memories as well.
I started smoking a cigerette and with bags of blood papertowels, and scalpels as eveidence , let alone being covered in blood, we accepted our fate might be and explained our reasoning and the respect with which we visited the place to anyone who would listen. After seeing the head of the park and explaing yet again (he was actually very cool with it), we got taken to the main jail in a nearby town of San Jaun Teotihuacan , still on the federal park where the local jail and judges/magistrates are. We had to explain ourselves yet again to the authorities and after the people gathered and saw all the bleeding white boys in the back of the truck, they let us go. I think it was a combination of the people creating such a ruccuuss, the amount blood we had on ourselevs, Jon was still bleeding at this point, as well as the fact that in mexico city there is a yearly pilgramiage of people on thier knees to the Basilica where the Virgin Mary appeared and it's a bloody procession of devotees. When we compared it to that it was more understood.. but still not really 'cool' with it. They were a little more understanding though.
Truly, there is no way one can live there, work there and NOT believe in the energies that run the place there. its something that has to be felt to be understood.
They were pissed but still were cool enough to tell us we had things a bit confused.. in Teatihuacan.. they did alot of human sacrifices . if someone come as we did , to pay respects to the old ways, and decapiatated someone as a sacrifice... well thats not cool either.

when it was presented in that light.. we laughed it off , excused ourselves and hoped they let us go.. they scolded us for a while.. gave us a revised history lesson on the place and gave us police escorts all the way out of the park. i thiink the fact it was mexico and blood is regarded as alife force still , and powerfull by most and not the bio-filled fluid that get severywhere and contaminates everything mess that it is , really helped our situation there. Here in the US, we would get charged with endagering public health or something like that. Im positive!! the only thing they thought of charging us with was creating a public disturbance and breaking the order it was the cops that had to climb to the top of teh pyramid to arrets us that were the most pissed at us. we got soo lucky. FUCK IT ..IMO its deffintly better to ask for forgiveness than permission, but that still wasnt of the brightest things ive ever done!! (but sure was fun!)