Bad Ending to Otherwise Good Bonaire Trip

[TheWizard]

How do I sign up to become a PixieDuster?
Is there a club or a website or something???

 

[ScubaSteve]

Is there a club or a website or something???

There is a website but we do not mention Security on it....is this going to be an issue for you?

 

[DennisS]

CNN just posted a video on Scope. A bit dramatized but interesting, even tho he is wrong about it being used in Columbia only.
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

Scope has been used on tourists all over the world



Scopolamine Patch Facts and Comparisons at Drugs.com

We'd see scientists coming aboard wearing the patches, they were nicknamed lobotomy patches.

 

[DandyDon]

Scope has been used on tourists all over the world



Scopolamine Patch Facts and Comparisons at Drugs.com

We'd see scientists coming aboard wearing the patches, they were nicknamed lobotomy patches.

Are you serious? Sure it has legitimate medical uses. Did you not check the video about Scope as an assault drug?

 

[pilot fish]

True. It is your LACK of grasp that is in question.

It is not my grasp of reality that is in question.

 

[pilot fish]

How do I sign up to become a PixieDuster?
Is there a club or a website or something???

Yeah, here it is: http://muslimmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/head-in-the-sand.JPG

 

[mike_s]

awe come on Pifi..... you can do better than that can't you?


I mean at least try answering a question asked of you, or provide some facts to back up your claims?

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

How do I sign up to become a PixieDuster?
Is there a club or a website or something???

You start as a pixie dust spreader on the tilt-o-whirl and work your way up to an entire country

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

awe come on Pifi..... you can do better than that can't you?


I mean at least try answering a question asked of you, or provide some facts to back up your claims?

Nope, half a day away and he can start in fresh from the beginning like everyone simply forgot what was being discussed

 

[Mike]

One of the problems about free speech on the internet is folks can post whatever drivel they want, they don't have to substantiate what they write, they can twist what others write

And you're obviously intelligent enough to see the irony in statements like that siince it's valid for both sides of a discussion, right?

Are you serious? Sure it has legitimate medical uses. Did you not check the video about Scope as an assault drug?

There is obviously something going on, maybe as yet to be determined. The report of someone waking up in the middle of the night to believe someone is in their room only to wake back up hours later to find their room ransacked certainly points to some sort of drugging. Time will only tell.

Of course white washers will discount the victim, ignore any of the possibilities and follow the same procedures as they did when the extent of crime on Bonaire was petty theft at dive sites and anybody who raised any questions about it was quickly bullied into submission and the crime was quickly discounted as nothing too hard to deal with, business as usual, just a minor hick up in an other wise fantastic dive vacation.

Of course that all changed as the crime on Bonaire has escalated. Unfortunately, it's the same white wash mentality being applied to the drugging issue. As the crime escalates the white washers continue the Wizard of Oz mentality of ignoring the man behind the curtain. It becomes absurd as it has already.

In all seriousness though, you can take this for what it is worth but I have been to COZ once and dove with a couple that had experienced a first hand theft from their room on their previous trip. It is not a first hand account which we all no holds little water thanks to the likes of PiFi but Coz does have crime. To think otherwise is just nonsense.

Common sense dictates that there is crime everywhere, even in Saudi Arabia with some of the most draconian punishments crime still happens.

You too I assume are intelligent to understand that the issue is not crime existing, but the EXTENT of the crime that exists.

Using the two forums of the Bonaire forum and the Cozumel forum here, a quick search shows an unscientific result of Bonaire far outstripping crime reports versus Cozumel.

What do you draw from that? Well, you obvoiusly have to take it with a grain of salt, understand the validity of what proof there is, but to anybody with reasonable sensibilities, it's pretty obvious that there is either a lot more crime going on in Bonaire than in Cozumel, or for some reason there is not a lot of posting of crime happening in Cozumel that is happening.

So which is it?

I've stayed at 4 places in Cozumel and have always left dive equipment drying on the patio in all 4 places and never had a problem.

Can you do this in Bonaire?