By joe brannan (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #467) on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 11:36 pm: |
I've been off the Board for almost 4 years and there were a few things then that don't seem to be around any more....or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places.
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By Andy & Dave Bartlett (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1051) on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 1:31 am: |
Car breakins still occur but are usually limited to those that leave things inside and/or lock the vehicle.
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By Pietri Hausmann (BonaireTalker - Post #36) on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 6:35 am: |
the pink-now blue-dive bus is living a new life as the "hospitality" bus for the kite boarders out at Atlantis .....
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By Mel Briscoe (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #242) on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 6:57 am: |
Interesting; I assumed car break-ins were no longer on the board because they reflected badly on Bonaire so the moderators rejected them.
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By Freddie {Moderator} (Moderator - Post #621) on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 7:44 am: |
Mel any type of theft or crime can be posted on BT. We as moderators only insist on a police report to back it up..Please read the posting policies again...especially this:Special Note In Regard to Posts on Crime Issues: Postings in regard to crime on Bonaire are taken seriously by the Moderators of Bonaire Talk. If you post about crime on Bonaire, be prepared to back up your information with a police report. The moderators will remove posts that are vague, involving 'hearsay', and that cannot be backed up with facts in regard to the crime.
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By ModCyn (Moderator - Post #721) on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 10:32 am: |
Mel, we don't allow them because of hearsay as Freddie has posted. It got out of control with folks saying they heard someone who heard someone who hear someone say. This is not fair to anyone.
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By ModCyn (Moderator - Post #722) on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 10:32 am: |
dang, need to have my coffee before I try to post pics
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By joe brannan (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #468) on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 10:50 pm: |
"as he gingerly withdraws a lovely pinkytoe from the fetid brown lump.....the grasshopper wonders if he mighta stepped in poopie caca (that's for Cynde), quickly washes his appendage and skips away, laughing giddily...."Cmon everybody can I get a seriously giddy laugh?""
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By joe brannan (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #469) on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 10:53 pm: |
Oh yeah, Cynde...I took your shorts...they're in the shrine......(fade out to soft unbalanced laughter and slapping feets)
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By Mel Briscoe (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #243) on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 12:28 am: |
Mods, I've had stuff taken from my car. Nothing valuable, because nothing valuable was left in the car, and no windows broken, because nothing was locked. But doesn't this miss the point? The relentless small thefts never get mentioned, so it appears they are not happening. Is that really an honest view of the situation? Is it really a good situation that I cannot lock my car and leave something in it? In no way am I saying you are censoring. I'm just wondering if the current policy of "don't ever mention it" is helping to solve the problem. I've heard you guys say over and over that all you want is a police report; that is a *really* high bar to set. So I assume you think I am lying if I say something was stolen from my car, or elsewhere. I had a computer stolen from a rinse tank, and my wife had a wetsuit taken from a drying rack. Do you think I am lying?
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By Boom starts with a Tara (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #7730) on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 1:14 am: |
Mel, Mel, Mel....
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By Seb (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3402) on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 7:40 am: |
Dear Mel,
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By Mel Briscoe (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #244) on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 9:30 am: |
Sorry, guys, I really don't want to cause a fuss. I bring two groups a year to Bonaire and intend to keep doing that as long as possible. I tell my folks when Cultimara is open, how to enter at Karpata, and never to lock the car. What is bizarre is that my insurance company won't pay if I don't lock the car...no "due diligence" on protecting my property. So the only solution is to never have anything valuable in the car while diving, and that seems unsafe to me. No first aid kit? No cell phone? No polarized sunglasses for the drive home? So I, like others, accept the higher risk of shore diving in Bonaire for the higher quality of the diving....but that quality is degrading due to overfishing and nutrification. The recent surge in construction is remarkable, and cannot help. None of this will go away if we don't talk about it. BT is the only place to talk.
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By DiveWarm (BonaireTalker - Post #18) on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 9:30 am: |
I'm beginning to believe that petty crime on Bonaire is no more than any other tourist spot on earth, and likely even less. And that the only reason that people talk about "all the crime" is because the rental car companies have done what nobody else on earth has done...actually advise their renters to prevent being victims of crime by leaving nothing of value in the car with the windows open.
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By ModCyn (Moderator - Post #724) on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 10:37 am: |
Cheesy, I want my crappy shorts back!
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By Tribs, Live From Bonaire in 10 Months (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #6512) on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 10:37 am: |
I do believe that petty crime is less than most tourist destinations, but I do know it does happen on Bonaire. I look at it this way...if I feel safe as a single woman going out on the economy it is all good! I've been to a few places (one resort had armed guards in the trees on the perimeter) that terrified me to leave the property. NOT Bonaire! Bonaire is all good.
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By joe brannan (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #472) on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 9:45 pm: |
Trib...thanks for the heads-up on Gibi, thinking about his goat stew makes me warm all over.
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By ***Boat Chick*** (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #6125) on Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 11:32 pm: |
Joe..daum...that whole spelling cooorect thing...i do it for a living, so when i post...THWI
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