Is there a theft risk at Buddy Dive???

[Papa_Bear]

It is not the opinion of the Magazine it is the readers! They fill out survey cards! So yes the Magazine does a story based on the readers! So it is just what it says a popularity contest! So considering the topic, that seems a glowing endorsement by we divers!

 

[Adaveke]

VERY true. But SB with its threads of theft reports is not Consumer Reports either. It is just as far away as the magazine. People are spewing on about the theft threads but nobody is going and counting the number of positive reports out there and the number of positive reports that never get posted. No matter what, we do not have what it takes to provide real information. All any of us can (and HAVE) done is provide the readers with REAL OPINIONS. As Pilot Fish said, we have educated the reader on both sides' opinions

Maybe somebody should post a poll asking people who have been to bonaire if they had a crime free vacation, something stolen from their car that was of some value, something stolen out of their car that was of no value, had their gas stolen, had a break in when they where out, had a break in when they where in, ...

But I'm afraid a thread like that might become another yes <-> toppic
and still there would be no proof that the people voting have actually been to Bonaire. Ah to live in an ideal world where people don't cheat and lie...

 

[Rick Murchison]

Maybe somebody should post a poll

Ask and so shall it be
Rick

 

[pilot fish]

Who's to say this poll will be accurate and filled out only by divers who have visited and not by people that have a vested financial interest in Bonaire,i.e., travel agents, car rental agencies, condo owners, hotel owners and staff, dive op owners, Bonaire police, criminals and Gov people, and thier frinds and family? What weight do you give this UNSCINETIFIC POLL? I find it curious that some people, that claim not to have a vested interest in Bonaire, are very quick to discount repeated reports of crime on Bonaire but instantly embrace all the glowing reports of people that claim to have visited with no problem? Who is to say THOSE accounts are any truer than the reports of crime? Could they be friends or employees of people with a business there? Sure, it's possible. Who is to say that a person taking 20 tours there over a period of 15 years, with 15 people in the tour, that claim never to have a problem, is true and accurate? Is it possible some people had a problem but the tour person omitts telling us that? Possible.

If proof of a peron being a victim of crime on the island is required, why isn't the reverse required also? Either one coud be false, right? The person, or persons, reporting a wonderful, incident free vacation on Bonaire could be the criminals? Possible. Is it possible a person that owns a businees on Bonaire would get his friends and family members to post glowing accounts of a crime free Bonaire? Sure it is. Their livelihood is too connected to Bonaire to allow them to be objective, or even honest. Why some people immediatelly discount a report of crime on Bonaire while accepting without question a glowing report has to make you stop and question that?

 

[pilot fish]

Ask and so shall it be
Rick

But no more accurate or truthful than personal accounts that have already been posted to this board. More PR than scientific.

 

[gypsyjim]

Ask and so shall it be
Rick

Maybe there should be another option:

ONever been there, but ..

 

[Papa_Bear]

What no one gets is it doesn't matter! The trolls in life don't want logic, truth, or facts, they want their way! You see it their way or the highway! So enough people voted to make it the number one place 7 years in a row! Might be something to it????!!!!

 

[ScubaSteve]

What weight do you give this UNSCINETIFIC POLL?

More weight than your opinion at this point. You will never drop this anti-Bonaire mission of yours. You offer nothing in the form of a scientific idea so do not cut up those who found a reasonable idea to get feedback from people.

Disappear from ScubaBoard for 1 year (maybe 5 would be better in order to get truly scientific data ), gather all your science and pure and true data, then come back and report back to us.

 

[ScubaSteve]

But no more accurate or truthful than personal accounts that have already been posted to this board. More PR than scientific.

Are you telling us that you think the people are lying? I am shocked that you of all people would not see the truth for what it really is. Oh wait....you can't see it because it does not support your Anti-Bonaire rhetoric.

 

[ScubaSteve]

By the way PF......there are currently 5 NO THEFT votes. Which one are you?