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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (4202)	12/30/2019 11:48:44 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13803

Long story from a guy who lived and worked in dodgy places the world over. I have a feeling that people who are not usually exposed to dangerous conditions in their normal lives, tend to be what I call risk-unaware. Like young Europeans go to Yemen and then are taken for a ransom, for example. Every year, young people go hike inside the Atlantic Forest near Curitiba. They think that is a a hike but it is a tropical jungle. They get lost and are usually found by the rescue teams dehydrated, with hypothermia and in poor condition. Every year the same history. They don't learn. When you read about a tourist getting in trouble in a developing country, you first (If you'd be Maurice) think that the savages took advantage of a poor civilized person. Well, not always the case. People who come from a developed country, usually take risks in places where the locals are street smart to navigate the dangerous locations and can recognize the dodgy characters. I met through a friend a young Czech lady who was living as an au pair for a British couple in Bangkok. She told about her trips around S. East Asia travelling on the cheap. Like one can do in Europe. I told her she was risking big time. Do not relax by seeing the locals smiling. There are bad people in this region. She went to Vietnam, and was offered a ride by a motorcyclist, As he dropped at a hostel he forced himself into her room and tried to rape her. But he was small and she was a strong lady who could push him away. I told her. You need to stop that. She said: "It is my only chance to travel, Everybody would love to have that opportunity I have here." I gave her hints of how to be street smart, simple things like not look lost, or walk consulting a map. And how to recognize and avoid dodgy places. The type of clothes to wear and such She went to Sri Lanka, Rode a old mini bus to the top of a mountain where there was a famous tourist attraction. The old mini bus was that type that has the engine in the middle of the body and the radiator is inside the passenger compartment. The engine overheated with the climbing and exploded radiators’ lid and a jet of steam burned her legs up (she was dressed in shorts). I went to visit at the hospital she was like a mummy from the waist down. Her mother had flown from Czech and I told her. It was not lack of advice. Check the rooms. Check the transport. One need to keep the eyes open in such places. Her mother said: "But like this one will never travel !" She left Thailand. Once night she called and want to chat on Skype. She travelled with another Czech young lady to Turkey and was hiking on the country side. One local (spoke some English) was friendly and helped them showing places. They were returning when she went to take a picture up a hill. Then she heard her friendly crying on despair. She rushed back just to see the "friendly" guy on top of her trying to remove her clothes. As now both were crying bloody. Hell the guy took off. He had pocket knife to her throat. They rushed down to the village and the police said they were at a fault hiking alone on the wilderness. I visited Prague and took both them for drinks and they recounted the history. I told them. I am telling that since I met you over a year ago, You are not meeting trouble you are looking for it. But everybody travels, they told me. You know, she grew up and communist Czech and the place was safe and no one travelled for pleasure anyway. One day I got an email from her once again. Her friend -that one who was attacked in Turkey countryside- went to Spain and was working as a bartender. She got a boyfriend. He strangled her and her body was found a few days later as the colleagues from the bar she worked went look for her.