Hi DR1 people -
I recently experienced my first Dominican robbery-at-gunpoint. I was in Villa Mella doing research a little bit too late (6pm or so) at the Fiesta de San Miguel, and on my way to the guagua 6 guys with pistols in hand robbed me and two friends of everything we had - recording equipment, cameras, documents (no passports luckily!), credit cards, my research notebook.... Well, I already know that its stupid to be hours deep into the barrios with all that stuff. Luckily, nobody was hurt and we found a friend who gave us the last RD$200 to his name to make it home to SD.
But I?m wondering what I should do now. The combined value of the stuff lost was, well, pretty high, and my work is kinda paralyzed without recording equipment. I would love to get some of this stuff back if possible. It is overly naive to think the police will be of any help, or that I might find my stuff (a lot of it is pretty conspicuous) by scouriung the surroudning compra-ventas? I went to the center of the Polica Nacional to do the denuncia the day after, but they were pretty incompetant and I don?t think their report was even entered into any system of any sort. Any thoughts?
On this topic, anybody know anything about pro-audio equipment availabillity in the country?
And if anyone is interested, the story of the robbery and of my life here in general can be found at marloniousthunk.blogspot.com.
Best,
Marlon
I recently experienced my first Dominican robbery-at-gunpoint. I was in Villa Mella doing research a little bit too late (6pm or so) at the Fiesta de San Miguel, and on my way to the guagua 6 guys with pistols in hand robbed me and two friends of everything we had - recording equipment, cameras, documents (no passports luckily!), credit cards, my research notebook.... Well, I already know that its stupid to be hours deep into the barrios with all that stuff. Luckily, nobody was hurt and we found a friend who gave us the last RD$200 to his name to make it home to SD.
But I?m wondering what I should do now. The combined value of the stuff lost was, well, pretty high, and my work is kinda paralyzed without recording equipment. I would love to get some of this stuff back if possible. It is overly naive to think the police will be of any help, or that I might find my stuff (a lot of it is pretty conspicuous) by scouriung the surroudning compra-ventas? I went to the center of the Polica Nacional to do the denuncia the day after, but they were pretty incompetant and I don?t think their report was even entered into any system of any sort. Any thoughts?
On this topic, anybody know anything about pro-audio equipment availabillity in the country?
And if anyone is interested, the story of the robbery and of my life here in general can be found at marloniousthunk.blogspot.com.
Best,
Marlon