Would this be a third world armpit?
Posted on 06/05/2005 5:22:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
SAN NICOLAS, Aruba - Authorities detained two men Sunday in connection with the disappearance of an Alabama teenager, who went missing nearly a week ago in Aruba while on a high school trip, the attorney general said. ADVERTISEMENT
Caren Janssen called the men "suspects" in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, 18, but declined to provide further details. The men were not among the three described earlier by police as "persons of interest."
Police officers and three FBI agents, who are playing a supportive role in the investigation, took the two men into custody at two different houses in the southeastern town of San Nicolas, according to an AP photographer at the scene.
Police knocked on the door of one house, put the suspect on the floor and handcuffed him. Officers later detained a second man. They both were led to an unmarked police car and taken away.
Neighbors described the men as security guards who worked at a hotel closed down for renovation near where the 18-year-old blonde was staying at the Holiday Inn. Police and FBI agents searched the hotel Saturday.
My bets on being drugged. They slipped something into her drink, there's no way this woman was in her right mind when led out of the bar and I don't think she was drunk. just my opinion.
Aruba is a beautiful, first world island. My wife and I travelled there with a good friend who is an Aruban resident. I felt safer in Oranjestaad at Midnight than in most places in America. Yes there are some armpits in the Carribean -- Aruba IS NOT one of them.
She may have been. I was reading this article in British Cosmo about going on holiday in Greece. You'd be surprised how often this happens there :( When my sister was in Turkey, guys would try to buy her drinks all the time. A roofie isn't a huge pill and one turn away can get one in there. I never take drinks from guys.
If only Miami could be described in this nice of terms...
Maybe from AI, might be the guys that got roasted on Fox News.
"I never take drinks from guys."
Right! And you're better off to drink beer which comes pre-packaged.
I worry so much about my daughter, stories like this girl terrify me. And remember the cheerleader in Hawaii, who went over the balcony? Fell, most likely, drunk of her *ss most likely, but still, all scary.
Another "chaperoned" trip. I'd be a chaperone on one of these trips and boy would the kids hate me. I'd be making 'em go to museums, etc.
That's what my hubby says, she's either fish food or has already met the Sultan of Brunei.
BTW, my mother would have no more allowed me to go to Aruba on a senior trip, chaperoned or not, than she would have allowed me to fly to the moon. What's with these people? And the chaperones on this trip have to be rethinking their rules.
I'm sure this will put a crimp in the local senior trips for a while, resurrecting the local destinations. What's wrong with New Orleans and Orlando anyway?
Just a guess, but maybe because they can do things they couldn't do back home in Podunk Junction without their family and friends knowing about it. After all, Las Vegas plays up to that kind of hypocritical moral standard with their "What happens here stays here" advertising slogan, and it certainly appeals to a great many people.
This girl was last seen getting into an old beater car with two local men after leaving a nightclub with them at 1:30 AM. Even a naive teenage girl should have known that was a very risky thing to do in a foreign tourist resort, but it's likely that by that late hour her better judgement had given way to too many rum and fruit juice concoctions.
I hope and pray she turns up OK, but it's hard to imagine a good outcome for this after her going missing all this time.
I would watch out for chaperoned trips. Know the girls she's travelling with. Even if she is well behaved, some other girl can bring back strange guys,etc. My kids are never leaving my house *LOL*
>>Aruba is not supposed to be like that though. It's a very low crime place, actually part of Holland. Or something like that, but who knows?
While I'm far from an expert, I can say that on my trip to Aruba 8 or 9 years ago, it seemed very, very safe. And while only there for a week, we did get out and around a good bit, and weren't just in the touristy places, as one of our group had lived there for several years. The place seemed much, much safer than what I hear about Jamaica or even Bermuda.
I have 5 kids, 4 are in Tae Kwon Do. The youngest is a bit too young to start training. Not gonna help if they're drugged but it does make me feel a bit better that in most situations, they will be able to protect themselves. They are a little more than halfway to getting a black belt.
Drugging is a possibility, but then where were the chaperones? Why weren't other girls drugged? What about the tens of witnesses/friends that saw her leave? Didn't that raise an eyebrow? Even in my twenties I always paired up with a friend and no one ever left anywhere alone.
She was there on a high school senior trip with 40 adult chaperones at the party, looks like the took every precaution known to man.
Maybe it's time to start blaming the victims. Not for their murders but for being sooooo stupid.
Woman leaving bars with strangers.
Telling robbers, "What are you going to do? Shoot me?"
Meeting strangers on the internet.
Jogging in parks at night
You get the idea.
Time to start "streetproofing" our young women.
Gavin de Becker book "The Gift Of Fear" should be required reading in high schools.
BTW - met my husband online ;> (lawyer, republican, a mighty fine catch)
- Tim's Bella
Aruba?
My senior class went to Omaha! The class after mine GOT to go all the way to Kansas City to "enjoy" the stockyards!
Hey... I live in Omaha! lol
I get your drift, however. Who ever even dreamed of a trip to Aruba for HS graduation.
Four of us went to Okoboji by greyhound.
Would this be a third world armpit?
Have you been to Aruba sir?
It is not a third world armpit. They have had one murder in the past 6 years.
It is rather modern with very pretty beaches and turquoise water.
A number of nice hotels and casinos.
The San Nicholas area to the south of Aruba is where most of the merchant ships ply and has a seedier atmosphere then Orangestaad but still I never saw any slums or ghettos or favelas in Aruba the likes of which one sees in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica or Haiti...not even close.
Aruba is right below the level of safety one would expect in Bermuda or Saint Barts. Similar to the Caymans.
That reputation Aruba enjoys is one reason this story is so big.
No one would expect it there.
You can call anywhere an armpit and in some cases you might be correct but not on this one.
I am hearing on other forums that divers are working near the California lighthouse. Supposedly an area not common for tour diving. Not sure of the accuracy. One poster stated that Fox was reporting as well.
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