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Thread: Another US tourist dies in alarming Dominican Republic mystery

post 1582210981 06-17-2019, 07:36 AM
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Don't eat or drink anything that wasn't apart of a major restaurant or at the resort srs. Blows my mind how many people accept food from total strangers when traveling. You wouldn't even do that in the states fkn lol
post 1582211071 06-17-2019, 07:37 AM
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Been to DR 4 times so far, twice last year. this is crazy to hear...gonna have to skip for the next few years.

I have a feeling law enforcement/politicians know what's up but aren't releasing info because they don't want to cause a panic.
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post 1582211081 06-17-2019, 07:37 AM
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If an American wants tropical paradise why not just stick w/ Florida ammirite?? Mix of great old people and heavily medicated young people. Don't understand what the problem is?
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post 1582211111 06-17-2019, 07:38 AM
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Beginning to think , they don't like Ameribrahs
post 1582211171 06-17-2019, 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted By tank2003⏩
Boy...this is a tough one


Poland is less developed but American tourists have not died under strange circumstances back to back
I don't think you are allowed to say that in current year.
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post 1582211241 06-17-2019, 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted By RICHSTRONG⏩
If an American wants tropical paradise why not just stick w/ Florida ammirite?? Mix of great old people and heavily medicated young people. Don't understand what the problem is?
I mean you are not wrong
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post 1582211311 06-17-2019, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted By RICHSTRONG⏩
If an American wants tropical paradise why not just stick w/ Florida ammirite?? Mix of great old people and heavily medicated young people. Don't understand what the problem is?
Doesn't look as exotic on instagram... Need that 3rd world touch to look cool.
post 1582211321 06-17-2019, 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted By MiscInformed⏩
I know some people are blaming bootleg alcohol, but I still think there is more to it. So far, it's only been Americans dying. Unless these resorts are 100% American, I would expect a Canadian or a German or some other nationality to have also died as well. The fact that's it's just Americans makes me think it's targeted. This doesn't seem accidental to me.
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post 1582211391 06-17-2019, 07:43 AM
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Starting to suspect some foul play....
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post 1582211401 06-17-2019, 07:43 AM
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Sad day when you can't even trust booze.
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post 1582211421 06-17-2019, 07:44 AM
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Originally Posted By Procta⏩
I mean you are not wrong
Plus you won't die from eating a Publix sub and fountain drink. Advantage = Florida
Originally Posted By HMFIC_BROWSIN⏩
Doesn't look as exotic on instagram... Need that 3rd world touch to look cool.
Florida has that too...it's called Jacksonville.
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post 1582211451 06-17-2019, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted By backinthegymbro⏩
Thanks for the reply! How much did it cost you? With the deal that you got.
Regular cost was like $350 a night, we were going to pay around $150 a night but they ended up not charging us at all because the trip sucked so bad. While everything about DR blew, the resort had about 150 new high school graduates there partying because they could drink at 18 there. They were loud as chit until 3 am when I wanted to go diving at 6 am, resort just said deal with it. I got drinks thrown at me in the pool, punk grabbed my wifes ass so my wife kneed him in the nuts, resort did nothing. Even if those little chits were not there, the resort still sucked and wasnt worth the $150 we would have paid.

Basically if you go to a resort in a chit place, dont leave the resort. If your not going to leave the resort, a beach in florida is the same as a beach anywhere else. If you like diving or going site seeing, why the fuk would you go to the DR?

We did our wedding at a resort in playa del carmen mexico, it was barely more than the DR prices. Better place, better food, could leave the resort and see stuff, diving was amazing, no fuggin kids anywhere to be seen. That is how it should be.
post 1582211461 06-17-2019, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted By RICHSTRONG⏩
Don't understand what the problem is?
DR is biurriful...and Florida is Florida
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post 1582211501 06-17-2019, 07:46 AM
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Originally Posted By RICHSTRONG⏩
If an American wants tropical paradise why not just stick w/ Florida ammirite?? Mix of great old people and heavily medicated young people. Don't understand what the problem is?
bc they value their lives?
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post 1582211641 06-17-2019, 07:50 AM
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post 1582211911 06-17-2019, 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted By dabbmw2002⏩
I've traveled India and Mexico from top to bottom, by bus and train and never felt unsafe. This is a weird occurrence in one country. Would I recommend going there right now? No, but that would stop me from traveling to other countries.
Your claim here that makes you feel like some sort of an authority on traveling is about 100x more ambiguous than you realize. Saying you took a bus or train "from top to bottom" of a country could mean an endless amount of things in terms of experiences. Either way, you just named two countries that aren't widely considered complete and utter chitholes outside of their resorts, even if they are *mostly* chitholes.
post 1582212211 06-17-2019, 08:01 AM
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Originally Posted By EnderG60⏩
We did our wedding at a resort in playa del carmen mexico, it was barely more than the DR prices. Better place, better food, could leave the resort and see stuff, diving was amazing, no fuggin kids anywhere to be seen. That is how it should be.
X wife and i did bittermoon in Cabo which was chit. The next year went to Playa Del Carmen for a week. It was way better, not nice by any means like Cabo (on the resort) but you could go pretty much anywhere and ppl where friendly enough. This was 15 years ago tho and looking back it was a waste of money. I dont do water stuff like diving, or even swimming for that matter tho so thats probly why it was boring for me.

Anyways Playa Del Carmen is way better than Cabo if you wanna go to a shythole country. Lol
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post 1582212541 06-17-2019, 08:09 AM
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Originally Posted By ymer⏩
To be fair, booze is already poison, so...
That's not fair. You didn't even give it a chance to defend itself. You call that justice?
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post 1582212581 06-17-2019, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted By EnderG60⏩
Why the chit are people going there? I just dont get it. If youre going to actually travel past florida why the hell would you choose the DR over any other of the hundreds of islands down there that dont suck?
Because DR is the most advanced, richest, and has the best tech and infrastructure in all of the Caribbean. Just came back from a 2 week trip last Friday. None of us died. But then again, we didn't go into any weird resorts, probably looking for hookers and such.

I was very impressed with the fact that I could get LTE everywhere I went, even in remote areas.

I also lived in DR for 3 years, from when I was 20, till when I was 23. Only had one issue, someone breaking into my house while I was out.

I guarantee at least 75% of the people who have died, were doing things they weren't supposed to be doing.
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post 1582212781 06-17-2019, 08:13 AM
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post 1582212871 06-17-2019, 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted By Brozef⏩
Never visiting a third world country crew
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post 1582212921 06-17-2019, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Because DR is the most advanced, richest, and has the best tech and infrastructure in all of the Caribbean. Just came back from a 2 week trip last Friday. None of us died. But then again, we didn't go into any weird resorts, probably looking for hookers and such.

I was very impressed with the fact that I could get LTE everywhere I went, even in remote areas.

I also lived in DR for 3 years, from when I was 20, till when I was 23. Only had one issue, someone breaking into my house while I was out.

I guarantee at least 75% of the people who have died, were doing things they weren't supposed to be doing.
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post 1582212961 06-17-2019, 08:15 AM
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Crazy stuff happens down there on the regular...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/...n-resort-says/




I've had too many friends that have visited and they've all stated the DR people truly hate Americans.

I cant say I've heard a single positive experience from people visiting DR which is in stark contrast to just about every other tourist driven area.
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Originally Posted By HMFIC_BROWSIN⏩
Wait, like poisoned?
I read somewhere that its from a chemical leaked into the bootleg alcohol from the wrapper or sealant. I forgot where but yeah they're blaming the mini-bars.
Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Because DR is the most advanced, richest, and has the best tech and infrastructure in all of the Caribbean. Just came back from a 2 week trip last Friday. None of us died. But then again, we didn't go into any weird resorts, probably looking for hookers and such.

I was very impressed with the fact that I could get LTE everywhere I went, even in remote areas.

I also lived in DR for 3 years, from when I was 20, till when I was 23. Only had one issue, someone breaking into my house while I was out.

I guarantee at least 75% of the people who have died, were doing things they weren't supposed to be doing.
Yeah that's gonna be a NO from me dawg. That takes balls here in the US these days unless in a bad area.
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Originally Posted By eternalone423⏩
I have a cruise stopping in DR in August. Not sure how to feel. May not get off the boat, srs.
You will miss the same thing in every other port......tanzanite, diamonds, bubba gumps,
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
Because DR is the most advanced, richest, and has the best tech and infrastructure in all of the Caribbean. Just came back from a 2 week trip last Friday. None of us died. But then again, we didn't go into any weird resorts, probably looking for hookers and such.
One of those resorts where the couple died, Bahia Principe, is actually a nice family resort.

It's very coincidental that all these people have a common cause of death listed and that they're all American. If it was just one or two then yeah could chalk it up to people being stupid and going where they're not supposed to, but this is just too much coincidence.
Originally Posted By jiujitsubro⏩
I read somewhere that its from a chemical leaked into the bootleg alcohol from the wrapper or sealant. I forgot where but yeah they're blaming the mini-bars.
No way. There are plenty of Canadians, Germans, Russians, Italians at these resorts. No way Ameribrahs are the only ones that drink.
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Originally Posted By Jax05⏩
One of those resorts where the couple died, Bahia Principe, is actually a nice family resort.

It's very coincidental that all these people have a common cause of death listed and that they're all American. If it was just one or two then yeah could chalk it up to people being stupid and going where they're not supposed to, but this is just too much coincidence.




No way. There are plenty of Canadians, Germans, Russians, Italians at these resorts. No way Ameribrahs are the only ones that drink.
5 of us that were in DR were American citizens, my wife is just straight up American. We spoke only English the whole time, and my brother has 2 sleeves and neck tattoos, I'm sure no one mistook us for locals. Now I'm not saying that everyone who died was doing things they were not supposed to, but more than half had to have been. BTW, 2 Italians also died while diving in some local caves. Again, common sense applies here, I am not gonna go swim in underwater caves in any country.
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I asked some Dominican friends of mine about this and they all strongly feel that a non-Dominican is behind the deaths. They said that tt would be stupid for a Dominican local to do this especially since they benefit heavily from tourist money.
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