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12-02-12 15:44 #31
Posts: 577Leave Backup Copy in the USA
Originally Posted by Daddy Rulz [View Original Post]
Tres3
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12-02-12 13:54 #30
Posts: 2808This is the standard for back ups
Originally Posted by Dickhead [View Original Post]
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12-02-12 10:45 #29
Posts: 3510If I had priceless info on a computer disk of any type I think I might have also for example e-mailed that info to myself or else maybe perhaps just possibly not travel with it. I'm just sayin'. BTW also scan and e-mail yourself a copy of the declaration page of your passport and-or have it on a thumb drive. Saves a lot of problems if your passport gets lifted.
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12-02-12 06:04 #28
Posts: 911Originally Posted by LateNightExcur [View Original Post]
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12-02-12 04:43 #27
Posts: 82Since we're all talking about.
I just want to share my experience since we're all on the same topic.
Once upon a time there were three little pigs. I was one of them. The three little pigs went out to several bars and had several of drinks. After a few hours the three little pigs ended up at a club. As usual, I failed to remember advices from Jackson's cheat sheet (dust off the house pigs) and advice given by one of you guys I forgot which one where it goes something like this "Usually the first ones to approach you inside a club are the bad ones. Quickly say "no thanks" and continue to look around.". Well as you guys can guess, I took the first chica who approached me home with me. I have to admit I was pretty drunk at that time thus making stupid decisions. Long story short, so I took her home and soon I passed out at home with her laying next to me.
By now you all should have already guessed what has happened. I wake up next morning, chica gone, along with my valuables. Wonderful. That night I lost around $2, 000+ USD worth of goods. The usual stuff people lose when bringing a stranger back home: smartphone, laptop, money, camera, etc. (she was very smart for taking all the chargers with her). At that time the rate was 1:6. 2pesos so about north of $12, 400+ worth of pesos. The end.
Surprisingly, the chica and I never negotiated or talked about her price the whole time. I was so naive to think that she is a regular girl (non-pro) just interested in me. It was also naive for me to think I can actually pick up a non-pro that easily.
I am also very very, extremely grateful for the fact that she did not take my passport, my credit cards, or any other I'd and only took other valuables. She also took my External Harddrive, but decided to leave it on my table. How sweet of her. The information / files on my external harddrive is worth way more than $2, 000, in fact it is priceless to me. Thank god!
Although I lost a lot of valuables that night, I wasn't really upset and was in fact happen. Why? Well because she also took my External Harddrive, but decided to leave it on my table. How sweet of her. The information / files on my external harddrive is worth way more than $2, 000, in fact it is priceless to me. Thank god!
Note to self: work harder in the future, so I can buy back the stuff I lost and most importantly learn from my lesson and act smarter.
I feel like I write a lot, somethings I feel like I should be a writer. Make write some stories.
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12-01-12 03:43 #26
Posts: 746Originally Posted by DavieW [View Original Post]
Could you tell us more about this experience? I assume he / they distracted you somehow. Knowing how might help others avoid having their pocked picked.
Thanks, Bob
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11-30-12 22:32 #25
Posts: 41615 of those 19 times were during my 2. 5 years in Iguazu / Misiones. Gangs come over the border from Brasil and Paraguay to rob the tourists and I look like a gringo.
I've never lost anything of great value because I'm not an idiot and don't wear an expensive watch or carry large sums of cash. The 3 times I had my house burgled I actually got quite a lot of the stuff back. At least the 2nd and 3rd times it was perpetrated by the cops, who subsequently offered me private 'paid protection'. The story of how I know it was the cops is actually quite amusing. Ask me about it at one of Jackson's BBQs one Friday evening.
Here in BsAs I've been pick-pocketed once on the subte and lost a small amount of cash. Another time I had my baseball cap snatched off my head. Luckily (touch wood!) I've never been the victim of violence, except for the time some punk kid punched me in the back of the head whilst walking home just to impress his girlfriend (didn't even try to rob me. Go figure). In fact during all those robberies I've only even been threatened with violence once and that was also on the subte, with my then 3 year old kid in my arms. They just told me to stay still whilst they emptied my pockets or they'd lay into me. That was the last time actually and was almost a year ago.
Why do I continue living here? Believe me, I'd have been out of here, never to return, about 4 years ago if I wasn't trapped! I've got a kid here and I want to see him grow up, so I put up with the crap, come onto forums to vent to like-minded expats occasionally, but mainly I work, keep my head down, spend as much time as I can with my kid and just get on with it.
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11-28-12 20:18 #24
Posts: 3510Thinking about someone getting robbed 19 times but continuing to live in that place sort of reminds me of the blonde who read that 75% of all traffic accidents occur within half a mile of home.
She moved.
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11-28-12 19:48 #23
Posts: 2808I've heard you say this before
Originally Posted by DavieW [View Original Post]
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11-28-12 19:10 #22
Posts: 3510I saw a lot more shit go down on Lavalle than I did on Florida. I can't imagine getting robbed 19 times in 5 years. I lived there just about 7 years and the only time I was successfully robbed was when somebody stole my padlock out of my backpack on the Subte, and left a little plastic figurine of a guy in a black and white striped jail uniform. I liked that figurine more than the lock anyway. A guy tried to steal my backpack in Retiro but was unsuccessful and I ended up with his jacket and a bunch of coins he dropped to try to distract me. On the red train one time I thought a guy was going to rob me while we were smoking pot between the cars and when he went for his jacket pocket I just pushed him off the train, which was going slow. Maybe I have just been lucky but I have been a lot of places and BA is not that dangerous. And yeah, I don't live there any more, and yeah, maybe it has gotten more dangerous but I was there six months ago and had no fear. I do follow the Daddy Rulz school of looking like you have nothing to steal (as well as actually having nothing to steal other than a few hundred pesos at any one time; I never carried more than 1500 pesos so that was my maximum loss) , but I also walked around drunk a lot. Places that I thought were a lot more dangerous than BA (in Argentina) include Santiago del Estero and Río Gallegos.
Out of all the chicas I ran through my apartments, nobody ever stole anything, which is pretty amazing.
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11-28-12 16:41 #21
Posts: 1885That block
Originally Posted by Toymann [View Original Post]
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11-26-12 22:48 #20
Posts: 329Originally Posted by DavieW [View Original Post]
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11-26-12 11:03 #19
Posts: 416Originally Posted by Silver Star [View Original Post]
Talking as a guy who has been robbed 19 times in 5+ years in Argentina, and who has walked the full length of Florida at least 2-3 times every week for the last 3 years. From my perspective there isn't a safer place in Argentina. Never had a problem there, never seen any trouble there, never met anyone who's ever had a problem there and until this recent incident, never heard of anyone having a problem there.
Of course, that sets me up to get mugged when I go down there later!
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11-24-12 17:41 #18
Posts: 329Originally Posted by Aqualung [View Original Post]
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11-24-12 17:38 #17
Posts: 329Originally Posted by AllIWantIsLove [View Original Post]
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