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While MacLeod’s body was ravaged — he had an enormous gash in his right shoulder where the lightning entered and a gaping hole in his back where it exited — Nordbrock barely had a scratch.

After a brief pause, the SUV pulled away and the mob stormed in through the gaping maw that was once the front door.

The roof and part of the walls in the damaged area have been blown apart and there's a gaping hole in the floor.

The corners of its mouth, called the gape, stopped around the middle of its eyes and turned up, which someone described as a “Mona Lisa smile,” she said.

But let there be no mistake: pulling the trigger on U.S. military force inside Mexico would be about as effective as putting a Band-Aid over a gaping wound.