German tourist shot in Rio

[skateboardstephen]

WTF? Does that BOPE Squad give a shit about anything other than drug kingpins and dope sellers? Or is killing petty thieves beneath them?

The military police in Brazil are the most lazy and incompetent police i have ever seen..you have to be responsible for your own safety in Brazil...the police are not going to do it...they don`t even protect it`s citizens much less some gringos.

That is f***ed up and sad. That latest Elite Squad movie showed the BOPE getting ruined by up high govt corruption. If there is any truth to that, I am not surprised. If you have to protect yourself, can you conceal carry your own pistol?

You can`t legally own a pistol in Brazil....but the rest of these scum f***s are armed to the teeth...while honest citizen have to bust their asses and give up their hard earned goods because some..piece of crap 15 year old bastard pulls out a 38 from his dusty swimming trunks and says so.

[skateboardstephen]

http://news.yahoo.com/german-tourist-sh ... 15001.html

Damn, Stephen. I'm disappointed to see some of your recent posts regarding the safety issues in Brazil. If it is that bad, how long before you decide to move back to The States?

I`ll will still be here a while longer..haven`t really decided yet...my wife does not have a passport yet so we are just going to work on getting that in order....we just wait and see..i just playing it by ear.

[Rock]

As a tourist/outsider, you really should not be going into the favelas!

However, even staying in tourist areas there is quite dangerous. Favela rats roam the streets in more prosperous areas near the beaches freely in search of marks and targets day and night. During my stays there, I always saw lots of things go down, predominantly assaults and muggings. But also common (and this happened to 2 different friends of mine) is for a gang to enter an apartment building, have a couple members hold up the guard/doorman/reception people, then send others up to the various condo units and rob the at home owners and sometimes vacant units too.

The day after my parents left (they visited me in Rio for a week), a 19 year old Portuguese tourist was approached by a local kid on the section of Copacabana Beach right in front of hotel where my parents had stayed and stabbed to death cus he refused to give up his stuff to the thief. By the time his parents return to their spot from swimming, there was a crowd around their son's body.

There's a lot of precautions you can take in Rio. But no matter how careful you are, it's still a pretty dangerous place compared to about anywhere in NE/SE Asia.

Yeah you got Brazil down..exactly these scum walk around the tourist areas and middle class areas a lot of times going around robbing people..the f***ed up part is the police know well this is going on but don`t give a shit..thats why when i turn on the news and see them getting killed by police i don`t feel sorry for them..i do sometimes consider taking my wife back to the U.S. because the lack of security is just a shame...i am starting to hate these scum f***s down here all ways asking me for money or thinking i owe them something because i am American.Plus there really are not as many job opportunities for foreigners as i thought....but these same people can be in the U.S. illegally and get more out of the country than someone who was born there..but that is another thread ...such a shame because Brazil has the potential to be a much better country than it is.

Oh, now I see from your info that u r in Salvador. That can be even worse than Rio in some regards. Why not consider heading to the relatively safer and calmer deep south of the country w/yr wife or perhaps a more desirable third country (Panama, Costa Rica, etc)?

[skateboardstephen]

As a tourist/outsider, you really should not be going into the favelas!

However, even staying in tourist areas there is quite dangerous. Favela rats roam the streets in more prosperous areas near the beaches freely in search of marks and targets day and night. During my stays there, I always saw lots of things go down, predominantly assaults and muggings. But also common (and this happened to 2 different friends of mine) is for a gang to enter an apartment building, have a couple members hold up the guard/doorman/reception people, then send others up to the various condo units and rob the at home owners and sometimes vacant units too.

The day after my parents left (they visited me in Rio for a week), a 19 year old Portuguese tourist was approached by a local kid on the section of Copacabana Beach right in front of hotel where my parents had stayed and stabbed to death cus he refused to give up his stuff to the thief. By the time his parents return to their spot from swimming, there was a crowd around their son's body.

There's a lot of precautions you can take in Rio. But no matter how careful you are, it's still a pretty dangerous place compared to about anywhere in NE/SE Asia.

Yeah you got Brazil down..exactly these scum walk around the tourist areas and middle class areas a lot of times going around robbing people..the f***ed up part is the police know well this is going on but don`t give a shit..thats why when i turn on the news and see them getting killed by police i don`t feel sorry for them..i do sometimes consider taking my wife back to the U.S. because the lack of security is just a shame...i am starting to hate these scum f***s down here all ways asking me for money or thinking i owe them something because i am American.Plus there really are not as many job opportunities for foreigners as i thought....but these same people can be in the U.S. illegally and get more out of the country than someone who was born there..but that is another thread ...such a shame because Brazil has the potential to be a much better country than it is.

Oh, now I see from your info that u r in Salvador. That can be even worse than Rio in some regards. Why not consider heading to the relatively safer and calmer deep south of the country w/yr wife or perhaps a more desirable third country (Panama, Costa Rica, etc)?

I will if the opportunity presents itself.

[kai1275]

WTF? Does that BOPE Squad give a shit about anything other than drug kingpins and dope sellers? Or is killing petty thieves beneath them?

The military police in Brazil are the most lazy and incompetent police i have ever seen..you have to be responsible for your own safety in Brazil...the police are not going to do it...they don`t even protect it`s citizens much less some gringos.

That is f***ed up and sad. That latest Elite Squad movie showed the BOPE getting ruined by up high govt corruption. If there is any truth to that, I am not surprised. If you have to protect yourself, can you conceal carry your own pistol?

You can`t legally own a pistol in Brazil....but the rest of these scum f***s are armed to the teeth...while honest citizen have to bust their asses and give up their hard earned goods because some..piece of crap 15 year old bastard pulls out a 38 from his dusty swimming trunks and says so.

That is why I cannot support handgun bans in the US. They really would not stop the scum that get them illegally from shooting and robbing people, because the country is flooded with guns. It's too late in many ways to go back to some legal model like that.