Highlander,
I don't know where you live but if you don't have your head in you @$$ and have lived in a major southern city you would believe that tourists have been raped and beaten. Without personal protection, the police, and a sense of law and order certain people are prey. It is tough for Yankees (anyone who does not live in the South)to understand but they learn it real quick here in Memphis.
You completely missed my point. I was saying that I doubted that not a single tourist was mugged in all of south east Asia in the aftermath of the tsunami. The person commenting said that not a single tourist was mugged, and I doubt that is true. I fully believe the reports that people have been mugged and raped in the LA hurricane area.