Stupid shit in Medellin

[TheDerilious]

If you walk around with 3000 or 4000 usd in your wallet, like many of us like to do.

Who is doing this? It just sounds supremely stupid. I mean, we mongers are, by definition, some of the dumbest guys in the world, but this is too stupid to comprehend. Maybe I can understand if you have that cash from the airport to your hotel, but it should be stowed in the safe by the point. There is no world where anybody should just be walking around with thousands of dollars anyway, even in the US.

Here are some simple tips for any brain-dead mongers who want to carry a ton of cash (I'm assuming most are here just to monger and not to buy expensive jewelry or something):

1) Keep one card for foreign expenses like food or souvenirs (pick a good one for travel rewards points like Chase Sapphire Reserve or CO Venture) and put a transaction limit on it so you can mitigate losses. A simple call can turn a robbery into a few hundred dollars loss as opposed to a maxed out card.

2) Keep only the cash you need for the activity you are doing. If you're going to spend 300 k for a cita, just carry 450 k if you want to tip and have some cash for something random.

3) Watch your surroundings when you withdraw money, do it during the day, and make sure they aren't any card stealing hacks on the machine (little cameras / mirrors or indent paper in the card reader). It's not as widespread as before, but just a little vigilance here is important. Never withdraw money when you are drunk. Use the ATMs inside the banks if you can.

4) Get a burner phone for the trip. Getting your phone robbed sucks, but some of us are not smart with our passwords and you can have a ton of your accounts bled dry if they get access to it. Getting drugged is worse because they can easily use your fingerprint to get access to most things. If you just "have" to use your expensive phone, buy an ugly case that at least hides it. Most people can easily see an IPhone 15 from the back, so if you cases hides the cameras, it might be just enough to dissuade them from grabbing it.

5) Everything else goes and stays in the safe. It only gets opened when you are alone or in complete control of the situation. Or follow step 2; if you are inviting a chica from online for 300 k, then pull out 300 k + whatever potential tip you would give and store the rest. Hide the money so you can give it after the deed, but at least in the worst situation you are out only the money you left out for her. If you have two safes (like in a 2 bedroom), one safe never gets opened unless you are alone and holds the majority of your valuables. The other can hold a little bit of money for when you invite someone over.

6) Invest in the proper apparel. Get a jacket that has zippers in the pockets. Get some pants that have real buttons or even a zipper in the pockets as well. I actually don't recommend a fanny pack because it just makes you look like a foreigner, but it is okay if you are vigilant. Again, you shouldn't be walking around with much more than 1 card, petty cash, a phone, and maybe a photocopy of your passport. No need for a bulky pack.

In the end, vigilance is the best remedy and I don't agree that you have to go all out to avoid every potential bad situation. Just take a lot of the simple precautions and preparation steps to mitigate your losses. As is the general case with security, it is impossible to be totally secure, you just simply need to make yourself a less attractive target than the drunk frat bro across the street.

[MarquisdeSade1]

"Anyone that walks around with 3-4000 usd in their pocket is a fucking idiot, plain and simple. In any country including the USA. ".

I've been all over the world (sans Afrika) and if I'm not in Latin America I carry even more Europe Russia Asia.

If you go to Deutschland for the FKKs I suggest you bring $9900 usd cash, 99 100's is easy.

I've never been robbed, prima facie evidence I'm much smarter than most of you fools.

I can walk thru the Bronx at night with 4 kusd in my pocket and not the Bronx in Mde not NYC LOL.

My cash is like the old AMEX tv commercials, I don't leave home without it.

I rather carry a pistol in MDE but cash is the next best thing.

Money is POWER never forget that!!

An ATM card is a poor substitute.

[Gabacho]

Anyone that walks around with 3-4000 usd in their pocket is a fucking idiot, plain and simple. In any country including the USA.

The more posts I read from Marquis de Sade the more I'm starting to think he is a fucking idiot LOL.

[Gabacho]

"Inflation worldwide has really made mongering more dangerous than 5 to 20 years ago. If people that didn't have much to begin had it hard before Covid, what do you think is happening to them now. I think people in Colombia Brazil Mexico are becoming more desperate. Think of how many more homeless we have compared to just 5 years ago. It's a different world now, so be safe. I would take Uber everywhere, no taxis or buses. If you take a bus you are advertising yourself to a lot of people that could take a liking to you and call a kidnapping friend. Quit trying to save a few bucks and take Uber always. ".

If you walk around with 3000 or 4000 usd in your wallet, like many of us like to do.

The last place anyone is going to kidnap you is on the metro.

If those motobike criminals see you coming out of decent hotel with decent clothes, waiting out front with your iphone watching the uber app.

They going to get you ass today.

Back to the fear mongering again, Mr. Mercury?

[Manizales911]

If you walk around with 3000 or 4000 usd in your wallet, like many of us like to do.

Anyone that walks around with 3-4000 usd in their pocket is a fucking idiot, plain and simple. In any country including the USA.

[MarquisdeSade1]

"Inflation worldwide has really made mongering more dangerous than 5 to 20 years ago. If people that didn't have much to begin had it hard before Covid, what do you think is happening to them now. I think people in Colombia Brazil Mexico are becoming more desperate. Think of how many more homeless we have compared to just 5 years ago. It's a different world now, so be safe. I would take Uber everywhere, no taxis or buses. If you take a bus you are advertising yourself to a lot of people that could take a liking to you and call a kidnapping friend. Quit trying to save a few bucks and take Uber always. ".

If you walk around with 3000 or 4000 usd in your wallet, like many of us like to do.

The last place anyone is going to kidnap you is on the metro.

If those motobike criminals see you coming out of decent hotel with decent clothes, waiting out front with your iphone watching the uber app.

They going to get you ass today.

Then they see an Uber pull up.

And you jump in, can you guess what's going to happen next?

[Gabacho]

Fucking DUH. Ash Wednesday.

Yes I realize that now, I just didn't realize ash Wednesday was in February.

[PigSavinBoy]

Wednesday was ash Wednesday.

Both ash Wednesday and valentines.

[Stl24]

Just a couple random questions:

Where is the best place near Lleras Park to buy Viagra?

Any recommendations for or against any of the casinos?

Thanks!

[Huacho]

I noticed today that a bunch of people are face painting upside down crosses on their foreheads. What is the reason behind this?

Anyone know?

Fucking DUH. Ash Wednesday.

[Husker Dude]

I noticed today that a bunch of people are face painting upside down crosses on their foreheads. What is the reason behind this?

Anyone know?

Wednesday was ash Wednesday.

[Gabacho]

I noticed today that a bunch of people are face painting upside down crosses on their foreheads. What is the reason behind this?

Anyone know?

I already figured it out that it has to do with ash Wednesday.

[Villainy]

I noticed today that a bunch of people are face painting upside down crosses on their foreheads. What is the reason behind this?

Anyone know?

Did you write this on Wednesday, Feb 14th? If so, it was Ash Wednesday which is a Catholic day that recognizes the start of lent.

[Gabacho]

I noticed today that a bunch of people are face painting upside down crosses on their foreheads. What is the reason behind this?

Anyone know?

[Villainy]

That's pure fiction, aside from once early in the pandemic, 2020. You and I haven't seen eye to eye for years. Why would anyone here believe that I'm now actively asking you to meet up?

11-10-2022 Message from Paulie97.

"I'll be there early next week, will gladly meet you anywhere you like, and I'll even buy the beer. " and there were others.

That's another lie. I couldn't care less who you call a friend. I did though question why you'd want to hangout with the grandiose cesspool we've know as Osteoknot, or why you cared to defend his vile and inhuman posts that were quickly removed. That takes a lot in ISG.

His posts were removed at his own request. Any more conclusions you want to jump to?

You've been caught in other lies, such as your claim that a "good source" told you that I stayed in hostels, or that I claimed here in ISG to work for minimum wage, while proof was requested. Your mischaracterization of the drugging event was also annhilated. Those posts are recent, early this month and late last month. Why not give them a shot? They are waiting for you to answer point by point, but you won't even answer this one point by point. Instead you'll pluck a quote out of content and recycle more lies, if you answer at all.

So why don't you prove something. Where have you stayed? You characterized Hotel Dorado where I stayed for quite a while as a dumpy la 70 hotel. The truth is that it is one of the nicest hotels outside of Poblado. Was that a lie?

The problem for you is that lacking an education you don't know the difference between a lie and an opinion. I never called you a liar based on your mischaracterization of Hotel Dorado because it was your "uninformed opinion". I would bet serious money you don't stay in any hotels that are comparable. As to your employment, you stated once before that you had no advanced education (which is pretty evident from the plethora of grammatical and spelling errors you publish) and that you had no financial resources of any note. That all sounds like a Walmart worker. You call that a proven lie?? Where is the "proven" part. Show me.

This from the guy who was recently telling people to take cabs while plenty of rogue taxistas are about these days. Uber is now the best plan.

I haved lived here in Medellin for 4 !/2 years and have two other expat friends who have lived here about the same amount of time. None of the 3 of us have ever had a problem with the taxis here in Medellin. Now, some people have claimed to have been taken advantage of in Poblado. But of course that is the tourist hangout and I can imagine that any bad actors would head over there. As to Uber. People here use DiDi or InDriver, both of which have many more operators day and night and you can adjust the price as you see fit.

Also, in the matter of kidnappings, you told people they are safe if they keep their bank account balances low. Thus so, as you see it, the kidnappers would "have no reason to keep you" once the accounts are drained. Nonetheless the aim of many such kidnappings is to ultimately request ransom payments from friends and / or relatives. Your analysis is betrays gross ignorance.

I never said anything at all about kidnappings. I did say that you could protect your financial assets by keeping a lower account balance in the event your card was stolen or cloned. You introduced kidnapping as your counter-point. It was stupid. Kidnappings were typically the work of FARC and / or ELN out in the pueblos. Kidnappings are relatively rate in the larger cities like Bogota, Medellin or Baranquilla. Even so, the best way to protect yourself from being kidnapped is not to be drinking in some bar alone with some Venezuelan hooker. You, of course are the expert on that, now aren't you? You shouldn't blame me that you left whatever common sense you had back in the US.

You could really improve yourself if you took a remedial reading class. I'm sure there are some that you can afford. Maybe then you could write a coherent sentence without mischaracterizing everything that was previously written. Also, you might try proofing what you write so that you don't have childlike mistakes in your screeds.