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Back in 2010-ish, or so, I was on my way home from work, and I was dropped off in front of a hospital in Querétaro, México, because the bus stop was there.
"Lots of military here today" I recall thinking as I walked up to a group of military personnel always there. I see them being very antsy and all walking around and all of the sudden it's shouting and one guy just runs to an army hummer, pulls out rifles and literally throws them at guys standing next to him. They all immediately get armed, start pointing their rifles in my general direction while doing that "aiming while running" thing and shouting "EVERYBODY ON THE GROUND NOW"
So I had some 20 odd armed soldiers with their rifles aimed in my general direction running at me while I'm shitting myself with all colors of the rainbow. I hide behind a small security building, quickly looked around and saw a small bus, my bus, arriving. I jumped in, told the driver to floor it, and he just looked at me, and told me he wouldn't go anywhere untill he had my 5 pesos ( about 20 dollar cents at the time) for the ride.
I actually had to quickly explain to him that there was a district possibility we could all be dead in the next minute if he wouldn't drive.
Turns out that they had the injured son of a narco in that hospital, and rumours started flying that either his buddy buddies would come to get him out or his not so buddy buddies might come to take him out, and the soldiers panicked.
Nothing really bad happened that day, but the road in front of the hospital was blocked off completely for the day. I still have the news paper somewhere in Mexico about that day.
Crazy shit
Wait, did the bus driver take off without getting his money or not?