Posted on 04/28/2021 5:28:30 AM PDT by cll
A 24-year-old tourist from Delaware was killed in Puerto Rico over the weekend after allegedly buying drugs in a coastal shantytown, authorities said.
Tariq Loat and a friend, James Jackson, were attacked in La Perla on Saturday following the alleged drug deal when they tried to take photographs, despite being told not to, according to Police Commissioner Antonio López Figueroa.
The duo were beaten with an exercise weight, a piece of wood and a deep fryer, authorities said.
Jackson managed to flee and was later hospitalized, authorities said.
But Loat’s badly burned body was found by authorities on Sunday in the town of Vega Baja.
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Will PR legalize recreational weed soon? Not my thing, but figured since they are starved for revenue.
New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont are the only 3 states i will consider vacationing in this year..
Yes, too many people have died of deep fat fryers. We should license them.
Dead of terminal stupidity.
Got lost over near La Perla once.
Thank goodness it was broad daylight and there was like five of us.
‘He is now getting the Puerto Rican Jail Experience.’
ooo - Do I get a discount for that with my Amex? ;)
Yea, when i went to Jamaica i was wondering how hard would it be to get the weed.
My question was answered 5 minutes after getting off the plane..
My I ask why? My husband and I are looking into a summer vacay for us and our 12 year old daughter. We live in SC and my daughter even said “Please, no Myrtle Beach”, lets go somewhere nice with mountains. We are looking into NC, TN, and even a possible road trip to the parks in Utah.
Not quite but "medicinal" marihuana is legal, and getting a permit is way to easy. So, in effect it's recreational.
I was at a party once when this girl whips out her Polaroid (yes that long ago) and started to take pictures of everyone sitting around a less than legal substance on the table. I couldn’t imagine being that age again when everyone has a camera and thinks it wise to document everything around them.
In the background, the word ‘baby’, and it looks like a celebration. Unfortunately, this idiot may have already reproduced.
Live in western Colorado just returned from a trip to St. George, Utah. One of my favorite portions of I-70 (I've driven every mile of it over the years) is Glenwood Canyon in Colorado & I-70 west of Green River to where it merges with I-15 (160 miles). Fairly remote area with 90 mile stretches without any services. The National Parks in southern Utah are spectacular but many of them are overcrowded during the tourist season.
He's so stoned in that pic, he can barely open his eyes. Who goes to their kid's bday party like that?
Someone that will never be around to teach the child right from wrong, self-control or to focus on the future rather than the here and now.
Your “Moral of the Story” applies well throughout the universe.
Probably planning to post the pictures of the drug deal on Facebook to show to all of their friends.
So the Ugly American Tourist is even showing up in the US now? Oh what joys the Year of Lockdown has brought us.
“He is now getting the Puerto Rican Jail Experience.”
I’ll go out on a limb and say this isn’t as nice as the Mainland US Jail Experience.
Probably still beats the Peruvian Jail Experience where they throw you into a walled ghetto and you’re on your own.
Chuck Darwin
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