stevep4444
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Apparently Patrick was murdered a couple of days ago.This is getting very crazy! I am sure there is some expat real estate in Roatan going pretty cheap these days. Very sad.
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From The Bay Islands Voice
Another Expatriate Murdered on Roatan
No sooner did we send the December issue of the Voice off to print and upload it to the web page than we learned that Patrick Zyngg, a Swiss citizen who had lived on Roatan many years and operated Subway Water Sports, was found dead in his home in Brick Bay, Roatan, yesterday afternoon, stabbed in the throat. The body was found lying on the floor by an employee. Police said he had been dead 12-24 hours, which indicates the crime occurred sometime between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning. Detective Hector Ponce of the Criminal Investigation Division (DNIC) said there were no signs of forced entry or struggle, which leads detectives to suspect the assailant was someone the victim knew.
You stateside people just want to think this only happens in other countries. Denver and Chicago are much more dangerous than Roatan. No place on earth can escape globalization, and the spread of desensitization of violence through the media in the US.
The generation under age 40 today has no morality, or culture left. The blame for this squarely lies with how our US media portrays and exports "the lives and value systems of Americans," to the detriment of the world.
What is the US doing in Libya, Syria and the rest of the Middle East? Murdering people using drones and putting it on the front page of all news outlets. We CONDONE it, and actually advocate it. Our society has done more to advance violence and tyranny in the world than any country in the last 75 years.
And no, the real estate values here will not take a hit because of this. If anything, it can be said that we do have frontier justice, and in some cases vigilante justice here. IMO, it is a far better answer than the US Supreme Court, where it is clear that the Law of the Land belongs to those with deep pockets and good lobbyists.
You have not come to terms with how cheap life is, EVERYWHERE. You do not live in a vacuum. And no, I would not take one post back about the incidents on the east end, I live there, and certainly feel safer, and more free than in the US. You cannot come down here and pull the crap you may get away with in the US, and hide behind the court system.
Even simple poor Hondurans have enough sense to understand how the system works, and where justice is found.... Something I cannot say about North Americans.
For the rest that want to bash Roatan, wake up, it is just now catching up with the rest of the world, and we will probably never see in Roatan the level of violence and problems that North America is experiencing domestically, and inflicting on other countries and their populations though our insane foreign policy.
An American or Canadian passport used to be worth it's weight in gold. Today, because of our foreign policy and arrogance, it has placed a target on us.
That said, RIP Patrick and condolences to your family. For that matter, God help us all, we are going to need it.