CheddarChick
Contributor
Just got back from my dream vacation in Curacao...2 weeks, beautiful easy dive sites, meeting ScubatexasTony and Mark & Suzy from the Dive Bus!!! (Who I have decided are the BEST people in the world) How much better could it get? Well, after midnight on Monday morning, someone decided to take a car jack to the steel bars on the window, pry them and the window open and sneak in and steal Cheddarguy and I blind!!! All while we were sleeping ten feet above them on the next floor.
. I guess I felt so safe in this apartment, it had 10' concrete wall with electric fence, and barbwire topping, security lights on all sides of the building, steel security gates that only opened with a remote, 1" bolted steel grates on all the windows, keyed security locks on all the doors, I let my guard down. And didn't lock everything up before bed. Where they sitting outside every night watching? (If so, hope they got a good show on the one night) After much discussion with everyone who would listen I come to the conclusion, you are never safe anywhere. In conversations so many times I heard over and over about problems with the drug dealers and dopers. How the spike in crime comes right after the good guys take out a layer of the dealers and the dope is hard and more expensive to get. The law enforcement on Curacao is a total joke, I guess they are there just so you can file a report, not so they can actually catch anybody. And god forbid you actually had to call 911 in an emergency. Kiss your family goodbye, they ain't coming. So a word of warning....never feel secure, lock and load baby, lock and load....On the other hand, I loved diving in Curacao, and will return.....
. I guess I felt so safe in this apartment, it had 10' concrete wall with electric fence, and barbwire topping, security lights on all sides of the building, steel security gates that only opened with a remote, 1" bolted steel grates on all the windows, keyed security locks on all the doors, I let my guard down. And didn't lock everything up before bed. Where they sitting outside every night watching? (If so, hope they got a good show on the one night) After much discussion with everyone who would listen I come to the conclusion, you are never safe anywhere. In conversations so many times I heard over and over about problems with the drug dealers and dopers. How the spike in crime comes right after the good guys take out a layer of the dealers and the dope is hard and more expensive to get. The law enforcement on Curacao is a total joke, I guess they are there just so you can file a report, not so they can actually catch anybody. And god forbid you actually had to call 911 in an emergency. Kiss your family goodbye, they ain't coming. So a word of warning....never feel secure, lock and load baby, lock and load....On the other hand, I loved diving in Curacao, and will return.....
