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06-13-14 06:44 #12640
Posts: 4054Originally Posted by GrandMenino [View Original Post]
For me Balcony never has been plan A (or B, C, D...). I couldn't care less if they close Balcony. Expensive beer, overpriced lowclass GPs and a bunch of gringos. The best thing with Balcony is their ice cream served in freshly made wafer cones.
Balcony will propably close but it will take some time.
Your plan B, C, D, E... could be be termas, privées, escortsites, streetwalkers, VM or non-pro's.
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06-13-14 01:56 #12639
Posts: 640i agree my post was beyond the immediate issue of getting a phone taken at vm.
i also agree that robberies, violence, fights happen very quickly. it's all a matter of what you do before the 30 seconds that counts.
but the bigger points are:
treat your smartphone like a weapon (not a gun) and you're less likely to have it taken. carry two smartphones, a primary and a back up on different parts of your body / cloths.
always plan for the worst, hope for the best and make yourself a unattractive target. even in good parts of town, like botafogo, i go to the military police station (about 100 yards up sao clemente from panda), and get the officer of the day number, and put it in my smartphone. things go to shit, i want the police, especially the military police.
before i ever set foot inside of mosaico or red light club a few years ago i walked both of those areas in daytime, on foot, and walked to the military police building, and got the number, and programmed it in. at 2 am in mosaico, 4 military police, carrying assault rifles will come in and enjoy a hot morena raicca wagging her tail for the locals; same thing at club red light.
when i went to 502 a few weeks ago, i arrived with a isg buddy. i had to go get cash. i went to one bank, and chatted up a military police guy, talked about what weapons he was carrying, exchanged names, "prazer, etc. " had to go to another bank, and when i did he was standing outside with 4 military police guys, and he called over to me by name. we talked briefly about his rank, etc. now i'm on a first name basis with 4 guys with guns on av rio branco. so, if you're a criminal / thief looking for a easy target gringo, who are you going to target? the guy who just talked to 4 armed, uniformed military police, or the next gringo who comes along 60 seconds later?
if you're going to have a "wingman" (think about where that term comes from), then agree upon:
- whether you're going to fight or not.
- if you're not going to fight (and i would never in a foreign country), you're going to take pictures of each other on phones and call the cops, and get into a taxi asap.
anyway, it is predictable that personal violence and security for tourists will become harder for the rest of the year, not least because:
july 15 wc cash inflows end.
oct elections take place for politicians who have borrowed to build european stadiums, with african schools / hospitals for 95% of the population (who are going to look to many sources, including tourist victims, to get their dinero).
Originally Posted by christopherd [View Original Post]
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06-12-14 17:55 #12638
Posts: 36Balcony is making a shit load of money right now. Everyone wants a cut. Typical Rio. Balcony will be around for a long while. I just got back from Rio. Funny no newspaper articles while I was there. IMHO interview. Check I'd if any way possible. If no I the pass.
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06-12-14 17:24 #12637
Posts: 17Alternative?
Any plan B or C or D or E?
Sperto et al. Please advise.
Originally Posted by Manny51 [View Original Post]
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06-12-14 17:00 #12636
Posts: 5I was wondering if the famous porn star Mayara Rodrigues escorts in Rio or anywhere in Brazil. Can't find anything recent after an extensive search.
Thanks
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06-12-14 16:47 #12635
Posts: 2345much as i respect patmar's posts i have to confirm sperto's and ec's posts. rio is not everywhere and can't be judged on what generally might work, although i can't imagine the 'camera' thing working anywhere where muggings occur really.
most robberies in rio happen so fast that they will often be over before the victim has even gathered his wits. dsitraction, a second person in your pockets from behind, and then they run, fast. the slightest objection / provocation is met with increased level of threat. if a robbery occurs in copa people will stand and watch it happen. all you can do is a) get better at avoiding being robbed, and b) make sure that what is taken in the event you are robbed is not something you can't live without.
the post that triggered the well-meaning replies was not even about a mugging, but a robbery by stealth that occurs in vm occasionally, which i why i tried to reply with advice for that specific situation. with your clothes off and a woman's body wrapped round you, often in dim light, you don't have many options. even if yiou break free at lightning speed, kick the door open, chase the thief like batman on steriods, they will probably have dumped the camera or, if it is cash (which they will probably take out of your wallet rather than take your wallet), claim is theirs anyway. in a dispute between a gringo and a brasilian, where there is no absolute proof, people will generally side with the brasilian.
if you are a big tough guy, preferably with some tough-looking buddies nearby, it might improve your chances, but the only surefire protection not to get robbed is avoidance or, if you don't manage that, making sure it is only for something negligible. it's not that hard, to just carry what you really need and in an unobtrusive manner, and avoid situations that make you an easier target. if a person looks suspicious, avoid being near them: change your mind, cross the street, go somewhere else, or if he gets up to follow you off the bus, sit down again and get off a stop later. think, "if i were a criminal trying to rob me, how would i do it? how easy / worthwhile would it be?
in copa or lapa, anyone is a target. in vm, only gringos usually carry enough to make it worth robbing them.
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06-12-14 14:53 #12634
Posts: 3630Rio during WC
Wach out:
http://oglobo.globo.com/rio/turista-...-lapa-12821565
Take care!
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06-12-14 14:28 #12633
Posts: 957Originally Posted by FuckAfMedDig [View Original Post]
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06-12-14 14:27 #12632
Posts: 640The most powerful weapon a person reading this board can legally carry.
And as a practical matter in gunfights everywhere cameras are the tipping point deciding the winner of the actual fight and the winner of who writes the history.
The goal is to get the Brazilians who do legally carry guns on your side asap when required.
Originally Posted by ExecTalent [View Original Post]
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06-12-14 14:18 #12631
Posts: 951Originally Posted by Christopherd [View Original Post]
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06-12-14 13:05 #12630
Posts: 2278Most powerful weapon
Originally Posted by PatmarBeleza1 [View Original Post]
Never bring a camera to a gun fight.
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06-12-14 08:19 #12629
Posts: 4054Originally Posted by PatmarBeleza1 [View Original Post]
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06-12-14 08:15 #12628
Posts: 2345Balcony
I don't know of the effect is immediate or not but Balcony it seems got a suspension notice yesterday.
http://oglobo.globo.com/rio/dois-est...nores-12819966
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06-12-14 08:05 #12627
Posts: 2345I don't think you will get your phone back. I'm sorry to hear you got it stolen.
Can you describe which casa it happened in? While most casas are honest, the occasional one is not. One I always avoid, even if a girl from outside the casa wants to go there, is about the second along on the left as you enter the Yoo-bend coming from West (usual approach, for instance if you are coming from Sao Cristovao). There is a small bar on the left hand side as you go in unless they've moved it around recently. Then the stairs at the back and to the left lead upstairs and as the cubicles are so small it seems natural to put your gear on the floor by the door, which doesn't lock. As you do the business, the girl tries to hold you tight to stop you looking round. Meanwhile someone croucing down outside the door opens it suficiently to rifle through your trousers.
For future reference, maybe try not to take too much worth stealing to VM. I was sessioning with a girl in another casa one time, and she was very hot and I was enjoying it immensely, yet aware with a smile that one long skinny arm was reaching out to the table where I had put my clothes. I could sense from the small muscle movements in her upper arm that she was trying to rifle through my pockets. I laughed and told her she wouldn't find anything, and gently pulled her arm back and carried on enjoying myself. (My extra cash was under the insole of my trainers; enough for beers, another session or two, and a bus home: it meant that if a girl tried to ask for more I would empty a pocket and 'discover' that I only had more or less the correct money. If I needed privacy to top up my immediate cash I would maybe go inside the small cafe at the front of the you-bend or, if it was busy, a toilet area.) I also always roll my trousers or jeans up when I take them off and if possible put them on the floor (on top of my trainers) away from both the reach of the girl and the door.
Even if you have a 'TrackMyPhone' app or follow someone who you think stole it, do you really think you would be able to recover it? Whoever took it will have got rid of it by now and if you were to confront a group of Brasilians on your own it would be a very foolish thing to do. If you want to make an insurance claim you need to go to the Tourist Police in Leblon if you haven't done so to get a certificate to say you reported it. That will probably take several hours.
It was a bad experience. You will feel terrible and probably a bit dumb for a day or two. Then it will pass. Learning experience. Think of it as tourist tax.
Originally Posted by LuvinBrazil [View Original Post]
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06-12-14 05:52 #12626
Posts: 640Prive during protest, Prive girl diaria, let's here it for gringo women
So, I actually did have that experience of banging while Paris burned, or as close as it gets in Rio. Exiting a hour session in Av Pres (Getulio, see the movie!) Vargas, where I banged a dark negra for an hour and CIM twice, I was met by a protest on the main street. But the reality is that it was a sectoral, professional protest. It was less than 100 people, carrying signs, and probably out numbered by cops. Across the street, with me going across the intersection were a normal cross section of cariocas -- including as I have become hypersenstized to -- a very hot, morena business girl who again was a lot more attractive than the pros in the prives and termas.
The next day I had a diaria with another prive girl. The best cost benefit by far in RJ and everywhere I have been in Brazil is with the prive girls. Termas are generally (at least from my perspective, and especially during this predictable 1-month boom, to be followed by a an equally predictable at least 1-month depression later in the summer) best to go spectate after the prive, whether it is the proverbial 100 r shower at MC or wherever.
FWIW, the best looking woman I saw in RJ was an American, about 21, long legged, natural breasted, brunette haired, and 5'10". Smart, interesting, interested, articulate, athletic; texting like mad like every 21 year old woman on earth, perhaps. It just reinforced my view that the most attractive Brazilian women are far from RJ. Sex is a necessary, but not sufficient, component of happiness; banging endless bunda is fine as far as it goes, but talking with an intelligent woman is sublime for its own sake.