Burundanga, Scopolamine, Devil's Breath.....How common is this in D.R.

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xstew

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I believe this is one way the generals and police get their big homes and Maseratties.
 

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I believe this is one way the generals and police get their big homes and Maseratties.

True their money comes from drugs, but mostly cocaine. You can read that as clear as day the next time the chief of police of the DR is arrested along with his buddies and they appoint a new chief of police in the next few months.
 
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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
 

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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

I know for a fact and if you want know go to the Burendanga reporting building second floor cuidad nueva. It is to the left of the placio of justice. This has been going on for years here. To my thinking it must be a money maker for the higher ups in the police. Why stop a good thing no blood spilled just a good old scam. Maybe the poliece are running it ?
 

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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!
 

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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!

Having not googled it in some time i just did. Columbia has an epidimic in its use. The U.S. embassy says 50,thousand cases reported per year. Itis now sold online from the Dominican republic,England, Canada, And a slew of outher places it looks like everyone will know it's effects very soon. This is bad news especially if the non believer Criss gets his nose in some. In Bagota 5-8 cases per day that need medical treatment alone. So how altogather who knows?
 

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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.
 

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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.

lost a cool $50;000 dollars. She was in front of the Cafiteria El Conde in the zona colonial. Not a fun day.
 

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$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.
 

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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

Stories about people getting "hypnotized", which was what people called these events, started around the late 90s or early 2000s. It always started with someone who was approached by a stranger who wanted to try to sell them something or show them something.
I've heard many stories, but I?ve only known of two people I knew personally who were victims: a man who was approached by this guy who told him to look at a "bolita"; he just gave him all the money he had. The other case was an old lady who was left at a stadium, and she didn?t even know how she got there.

These things seem to have made a come back. Last case I heard a few months ago was about a woman in Macoris; she even went to the ATM and withdrew cash and gave it to a guy in a motorcycle.
 

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Fairy dust is s fairy tale. Transdermal absorption will not work by simply handling an item. Pick pockets and purse snatchers are a REAL concern
 

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THIS grows up in the mountains in DR I know some people that make atea of the dried flower.
 

xstew

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$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.

It took her about a week to fully recover. They had her under the drug for almost 4 hours. She said that every now and then they would spray her with what seemed like perfume but it did not smell . When they were in the car [They took her from Scotty bank to banco leone] they kept opening the glove box and she would get dizy. Thats why i think the banks are in on it. Bank to bank and no one was curious in the banks for that kind of with draw. If you win 3 times at a roulett table the the whole casino is all over you. It has been proven that bank tellers call on cell phones when someone takes out a large amount and they are robbed upon leaving the bank. I just hope the one who got my money wrecks his lambourgini around a tree and goes to hell !
 
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