I believe this is one way the generals and police get their big homes and Maseratties.
I asked my wife about what she has heard about this kind of thing. Everybody knows somebody who knows somebody that was allegedly involuntarily drugged. It is completely unknown how many of them by burundanga/scopalamine.
There must be a "conspiracy theory" keeping this quiet with the exception of the random YouTube video expos?.
Or:
http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/burundanga.asp
Its my thinking that the banks are on to it also. Someone comes into the bank that has not drawn out more than 50 dollars at any given time for the last 20 years or so. Comes in and withdraws 50 thousand all that was in the account and it takes them over 2 hours to collect the dollars from outlying sub banks. And And they never ask why or call a supervisor or the bank manager to OK the withdraw. STINKS to me. They keep a money transfer from outher banks for a month to avoid scams. this is not realistic to me!
the poor guy is going crazy, since all he remembers is taking the cuero back to the hotel and nothing more. I would like to hear from anyone on the forum regarding similar experiences
Thank you so much for sharing xstew. There is nothing worse than a blind man who wishes not to see, until he gets hit by the Mack Truck! The information you provided regarding the way the victims protect themselves has answered many questions. I knew about the cotton, but not the hairspray. I figured maybe a liquid bandaid. Colombia is the leading country who uses it, but other places are catching on quickly. Once the thieves see how well this works, it is like a kid in a candy store. Here in NY you still see Asians walking around with surgical masks. I'm sure some wear it out of fear from the bird flu, but also scopolamine. In San Francisco Chinatown, there was a group of women doing the same thing to elderly women for quite some time. How much did your wife lose xstew? and where exactly did this happen to her? My girlfriends friend was in Higuey on her way to the university. Thanks again for sharing your story.......awareness is the best defense.
Greetings everyone. How common is theft by the usage of Burundanda in D.R? My girlfriends coworker in Punta Cana was a victim of Burundanga earlier this week, she was shopping on the streets of Higuey. They took he purse, credit cards, and cell phone. She got home and her mom looked at her and said where is your stuff??? She said, I do not know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQ8PWYnu04
$50,000! �� Wow!!! Anyone who chooses not to believe after hearing these first hand accounts, will simply have to live the experience. I shared all the information I gathered with my girlfriend, but she seems to be of the same mindset.....sometimes I feel some Dominicans choose to believe they are living in Disney until something tragic happens, then they go into damage control mode...,,this annoys the living daylight out of me! I tell her all the time: I now understand that common Dominican phrase: " El Dominicano pone el candado despu?s del robo" The Dominican places the padlock after the robbery�� I always get accused of being too cautious.....I remember the time I bought a smoke alarm for her house, and it sat in the box for almost a year! The only reason they eventually installed it was because I bet her 500 pesos and lunch, that I would return and the alarm plus the drill bits I bought to get the job done would still be sitting around! Guess when they installed the alarm??? They day before I arrived back in the Island. Xstew....really sorry to hear about your wife, but thank goodness no physical harm came to her.