Kayak.com Invites You To Take A Vacation From Sensitivity With A Simulated Border Crossing
19 February 2008, 5:45 PM. By Daniel Mauser
Nothing goes together quite like kayaking and insensitive stereotyping, and no one understands this unbeatable formula for family fun quite like the good people at Kayak.com. Advertising their “semi-illegal vacation” package, they extoll the virtues of living on the edge! Of good taste! By encouraging potential travelers to pack up their protective helmets and embark on a “Night Border Crossing Experience.” Oooh!:
The $18, four-hour night hike starts with the Mexico National Anthem. Your ‘coyote’ guide, Poncho, pulls off his black ski mask while actors gather around to scare you senseless along the way. Run from border control agents; dodge hidden actors shooting (blanks) at you, and make your way through barbed-wire fences. Survivors are blindfolded, led across a rickety bridge, and then set free to run across the border to freedom!
This sounds almost as fun as the Underground Railrollercoaster or Lolocaust: The Tour That Makes The Historical Hysterical! But nothing sells vacation packages quite like the promise of an actor shooting blanks at your face while a man with a ski mask terrorizing you with a…
Mmmm.
What we talking about? Oh. Right. This vacation sounds like it’s not so much offensive to Mexicans as it is to humanity with the assumption that there exist people who would actually pay eighteen bucks to get their Apple Bottoms caught on a barbed wire fence for four hours.
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Didn’t you report on this a while back? It was either you or the NY Times. Honestly, I can’t tell the difference.
Well, shit! Just come to Texas and I’ll make sure you get the same thing. And it’ll only cost you a lottery ticket!
@ latin_princess
I’ll give you a $3.00 lotto scratcher if you take me!
@ la roncha: It’s a deal, sister. And for a $3.00 scratcher, I’ll throw in some bug spray and an adult diaper. It’s shit-your-pants scary!
I’m sure Mitt Romney’ll be the first one to sell it, and Tom Tancredo the first one to buy it. Why hasn’t kayak marketed this to the Minutemen?
I would actually consider buying some piece of shit Betty Crocker cake mix to watch footage of some immigrant basher squealing and itching at the nads for a piece of ’solidarity.’
I’ll be there in 10 minutes