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Starting off lightly, below is video about a US tourist visiting Medellin, and doing wrong about everything he could possibly do wrong. Man walked into a bad neighborhood at night to 'watch the fireworks' as he was invited by 'his friend Andres'. Brought several cameras with him including one that costs 3000 USD. Didn't speak much Spanish. Had noone he trusted to look after him. Intentionally overpaid to show his good intentions.
Once in the barrio he noticed everyone was staring at him, conversations went quiet as soon has he passed by and people started following him whenever he had passed. Feeling that things were about to go down and they were planning to either kill or kidnap him he ran away, threw his cameras off him, jumped over barbed wired fences, 'broke his leg three times' (suppose that's ebonics for straining an ankle). He asked strangers for help yet people simply ignored him or laughed at him. Eventually he hid in a shed/on a roof for 3 days as he heard 'his friends' shouting his name as they were looking for him .
Barring a dented ego he came out unscathed so we're allowed to have a giggle. This is obviously not how to go about your business in Colombia!
Starting off lightly, below is video about a US tourist visiting Medellin, and doing wrong about everything he could possibly do wrong. Man walked into a bad neighborhood at night to 'watch the fireworks' as he was invited by 'his friend Andres'. Brought several cameras with him including one that costs 3000 USD. Didn't speak much Spanish. Had noone he trusted to look after him. Intentionally overpaid to show his good intentions.
Once in the barrio he noticed everyone was staring at him, conversations went quiet as soon has he passed by and people started following him whenever he had passed. Feeling that things were about to go down and they were planning to either kill or kidnap him he ran away, threw his cameras off him, jumped over barbed wired fences, 'broke his leg three times' (suppose that's ebonics for straining an ankle). He asked strangers for help yet people simply ignored him or laughed at him. Eventually he hid in a shed/on a roof for 3 days as he heard 'his friends' shouting his name as they were looking for him .
Barring a dented ego he came out unscathed so we're allowed to have a giggle. This is obviously not how to go about your business in Colombia!
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