ReptilianKittenEater wrote:bearanddragon wrote:
robbed twice (on my last day). spent my last night in a jamaican police station next to the guy who robbed me (that was fun)..
Did the cops allow you towail on him?
Still it sounds like a pretty good v.
it was all one big scam i'm sure. they cops seemed to know the usual suspects. but the cops actually recommended that i keep my conversations with the "suspects" cordial and friendly - they were more likely to cooperate and get our stuff back. i don't know what kind of police station lets you hang out with the "suspects" but it just made the evening even more bizarre. if we didn't have 6-7 hours to catch a flight (and it being 2 AM and us being 2 hours from the airport), the situation might have been different. but i'm generally a pretty happy drunk, and I wasn't really that angry strangely enough. the first few minutes of me staggering around the police station trying to give a statement while covered in paint and giggling like a little schoolgirl kind of killed any street cred I might have tried to pull off...
at the very least i should have taken a photo with the dude as we left. and yes, it was a pretty good v - somehow i think all this stupid stuff happening made it much more memorable.
by the way, i've never been robbed in my life, let alone twice in a day. i'm usually pretty good about keeping my possessions on me, and i'm a safe traveler. i always take a cable lock, lock my gear down, always get a cheap throwaway cell phone, etc., and watch where i grab my money. Technically the first robbing was a pickpocketing. I had cargo shorts on. And I even put a safety pin over the velcro-shut pocket, because i was worried about pickpockets. they still got it anyway. it was one of those festivals where thousands of people are nut-to-but. but still, these guys are pretty good... i ended up losing about $70 in local currency on that one.