Moving to Brazil on 05/06/2009

[Terere]

I have been robbed 2 times. I find it pretty fucking annoying that the population finds it normal to be robber. Like, everyone has been so its like not a big deal. Fuck that

[Connection Rio]

Originally Posted by Ko[F]

hey guys funny story

my mate and i got robbed last night walking home from a bar haha. my mate was pretty drunk and i'd had a bit to drink and we were walking in a part of ipanema thats pretty safe in the day but apparently not that good at night because of the hotels in the area, proximity to favels and easy tourists targets (in this case us)

some dude came up asking for money and looked like a beggar so i was saying to him i didn't speak portuguese... in portuguese of course... and then he asked my friend and my friend said he didn't have nothing and was trying to back away until the guy pulled a knife and demanded "money money" really threateningly... so we threw all our money on the ground and he had to pick it up... my mate had R$4 and i had R$4 and prob 75c and once we threw that on the ground we just walked off and he left us as he picked up the cash... not a very experienced robber i guess because i had my bank card in pocket which he didnt check... we laughed the rest of the way back home after that... but thank god nothing bad happened. i actually felt a bit sorry for the guy my friend was saying how he didnt think that the guy was experienced and it was prob his first time and we were prob his first targets.

moral of the story is don't walk home wasted if your not 100% familiar with the area... don't carry much money.. and comply with their demands

Glad you made it out of that situation ok.

Open mat on Saturday at Gordo Jiu-Jitsu, 10am - 12:30 +/- . That is the excitement this weekend.

In a couple of weeks there will be the Bitetti Combat Show here in Rio (on the 12th). Let me know if you are interested in goign to the fights as I am arranging transport, tickets, etc.

[Flow'n]

I was just about to ask if anybody was going to the fights on the 12th. Sounds like its going to be a great show.

[Ko[F]]

ohh yeah i'm interested in going to the fights!! and yes very glad that the guy wasn't crazy and high on drugs or pissed off that we only had R$8 and stabbed us just cause he could.

i'm going to be here for 6 months. i've got my 3 (90 day) month visa sorted and will have to apply for another 3mths while here

Bitetti Combat MMA

[Gerbiljiujitsu]

new post incoming today. Going to eat and track down a dry cleaner but then I'll devout a couple hours to it.

[ozyabbas]

Remember that your card details can be stolen when taking cash out of an atm. Two friends had up to a R$1000 stolen in R$200 chunks over the space of a week. He didnt realise it was happening until his card wasn't working, phoned his bank and realised it had been cleared out.

[david5]

japanese guy at BTT was fleeced out of about 10,000 reais over a month period when someone got his card details

[Gerbiljiujitsu]

edited becuase of double post

[ozyabbas]

Originally Posted by david5

japanese guy at BTT was fleeced out of about 10,000 reais over a month period when someone got his card details

The day I found out about my friend I called Lloyds Bank and checked the transactions for pretty much every day. I had used my card so much it was amazing I was never robbed. Were as my friend had only used has card a few times and it happened to him. I have been told that the City Bank atm in Ipanema is dodgy.

For KoF, Brians friend from New York and the Swedish girl were robbed along Ipanema beach on the way back from Leblon (I think it was club House or something like that). The guy that mugged him didn't take his bank cards either.

[david5]

club house is in leblon.

i checked my account online regularly and always made sure where i used it was safe, and never let it out of my sight